Robots
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New technologies, combined with a renewed global focus on defence and security, have kicked off a new arms race…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Technologies including AI, bots, drones and robots will lead to the automation of large parts of the global workforce …
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Street police in the UAE are going to be replaced with real life, ahem, “Robocops” Dubai’s government – who are…
In a world first scientists have helped a paralyzed man experience the sense of touch in his mind-controlled robotic arm The cutting edge experiment, a collaboration…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Creating new lifeforms sounds like fun and they taste great too. Raising glasses of genetically modified beer, the synthetic…
Robots learning from other robots will ultimately mean robots will learn new skills faster, accelerating the robot revolution The robots of the world are uniting –…
NASA is prepping robots for Mars so humans can get on with the important stuff A NASA robot which is programmed to dig for water,…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The only humans these Lettuces see will be the one who eats them. The Japanese lettuce production company Spread believes…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF New artificial skin can transmit different amounts of pressure, just like real skin. Many of us take our sense…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Built to go where human divers can’t Stanfords OceanOne takes the plunge. Oussama Khatib held his breath as he…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are all aware that technology is capable of replacing particular categories of jobs, but often those jobs “belong to…
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The world’s first robot assisted eye surgery paves the way for surgeries that were previously impossible. British surgeons have…
