"Control it all the way you want to," reads the slogan for AI girlfriend app Eva AI. "Connect with a virtual AI partner who listens, responds, and appreciates you." A decade since Joaquin Phoenix fell in love with his AI companion Samantha, played by Scarlett Johansson in the Spike Jonze film Her, the proliferation of large language models has brought companion apps closer than ever. As chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Bard get better at mimicking human conversation, it seems inevitable they would come to play a role in human relationships. And Eva AI is just one of several options on the market. Replika, the most popular app of the kind, has its own subreddit where users talk about how much they love their "rep", with some saying they had been converted after initially thinking they would never want to form a relationship with a bot.

Valentine's Day is approaching… Do want to sneak in a robot movie to watch on date night? Do you wonder about whether robots and love is possible? Here are five recommendations for sci-fi movies with a discussion of the related real-world robotics science. And remember to check out Learn AI and Human-Robot Interaction from Asimov's I, Robot Stories– it's a great primer on social interactions! Can roboticists make the perfect partner?

In today's tech-savvy world, it is really fascinating to see millions of devices talking, exchanging data and transforming valuable insights into vital courses of action. Thanks to the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Artificial intelligence (AI) which has transformed the business world by storm. Indeed, they have made businesses less dependent on humans and more dependent on machines. The result is ultimately auspicious! Now, it is easier for companies to aggregate a tremendous amount of data, analyze and make fearless decisions to take a big leap in business using smart technologies.

Brian McClure, Churchview Farm with Matrix Animal Health agent Robert ShannonBrian, alongside his father David, run a herd of 100 cows, milked through two Lely robots. The second robot having only recently been installed is allowing Brian to increase his cow numbers further. Cows are housed all year round and three cuts of quality silage are made every year.Silage quality is paramount to the McClure's philosophy of maintaining healthy, efficient and productive cows averaging 10500lts.Matrix Animal Health sales agent for Co.Antrim, Robert Shannon chatted to Brian this week to see how he was getting on with the Healthy Udder Boluses."We were having quite a few problems keeping cases of clinical mastitis under control and had been using an awful lot of antibiotics with varying success," said Brian."This lead to the financial implications of lots of wasted milk, as well as a constant fear of contaminating the milk. " I have also been very concerned over the potential for antibiotics to get into the food chain and believe that farmers as food producers play a major role in the fight to combat this."I was talking to a friend who recommended I would try the'Healthy Udder …

Self-driving car company Cruise Automation is rushing to create a new autonomous vehicle with the help of one of the largest names in the automotive industry. Honda said it will invest $2.75 billion into Cruise's autonomous vehicle operations over the next 12 years, an infusion that arrives several months after the Japanese firm SoftBank announced a $2.25 billion investment in the company. Both investments bring the four-year-old company's valuation to a whopping $14.6 billion, General Motors said in a news release Wednesday. Cruise Automation -- which is already building a fleet of autonomous vehicles that could hit American streets as early as next year -- is a subsidiary of GM. The Detroit automaker's stock was up nearly 2 percent Wednesday.

If you've paid attention to most discussions of artificial intelligence, you'd think our relationship to mechanical minds will be one of competition, if not outright conflict. It's not just that virtually every Sci-Fi story, from "Battlestar Galactica" to "The Matrix," shows humanity and AI at war with one another. Even serious discussions of this technology tend to focus on how it will replace us. You'd almost think that developing artificial intelligence is a huge mistake; the better we make this technology, the more problems we'll create for ourselves. While it's hard to predict the future, there's good reason to believe that our relationship to AI will be far more positive than many people assume.

In the recent past, both Crowdfunding and Artificial Intelligence (AI) development, have been touted as industries that could change the world. And it appears that they are doing so – albeit, at their own pace. For Crowdfunding, that change is in the way people fund businesses, donate to charity and find the perfect investment on their own terms. When it comes to AI, it's an industry that's moving forward all the time. Think the Internet of Things (IoT), big data processing in financial services and online customer service. But now, as both industries grow in maturity, is it time for two of the world's most significant disruptors to work together?

But for a collaborative sport like ping pong, it's not always easy to find the perfect partner. Brothers, Alexander and Harrison Chen, solved this problem by building the "Trainerbot." This ping pong robot works in tandem with a smart phone app and allows users to create their own custom shots by choosing the speed, direction, and spin with which the Trainerbot shoots balls. Alexander and Harrison say they got the idea after they both moved away from home and lost their playing partner. Every summer and winter break, the two brothers would team up to create prototypes until they came up with the 1.2 kilogram, 16 by 32 centimeter Trainerbot.