Moravec‘s Paradox

Until 200 years ago, no one in the modern era could understand Egyptian hieroglyphs; ancient Egyptian was essentially a lost language. The fact that historians can now read and understand hieroglyphic inscriptions is down to an act of archaeological prowess involving a fairly banal, but ancient legal text chiseled onto…

You might think that GPS navigation is ideal for automated agriculture, since the task facing the operator of a farm vehicle like a combine harvester is simply to drive around the field in a serpentine pattern, mowing down all the wheat or whatever crop it is filled with. But reality…

The UK government has launched a consultation that suggests it could water down individuals' rights to challenge decisions made about them by artificial intelligence. In documents released today, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) said that the need “to provide human review may, in future, not be…

Tired of doing parkour on the internet, robots from Boston Dynamics have been deployed at UK nuclear facilities to carry out routine tasks in dangerous environments. The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) has held a three-day trial of Boston Dynamics' four-legged Spot at the decommissioned Calder Hall nuclear plant…

by William D'Angelo , posted 2 days ago / 527 Views Publisher 2K Games and developer Gearbox Software announced Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store on March 25, 2022. View the first gameplay trailer below: Here is…

Agile Robots will be worth an estimated US$1 billion after the fundraise, reported The Information, citing sources.Read More

CE visits secondary school in Tseung Kwan O and listens to views of students on Policy Address (with photos/video) ******************************************************************************************      The Chief Executive, Mrs Carrie Lam, today (September 9) visited Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (TWGHs) Lui Yun Choy Memorial College in Tseung Kwan O, following her visit to…

A flexible supercapacitor with electrodes made of wrinkled titanium carbide maintained its ability to store and release electronic charges after repetitive stretching. Credit: American Chemical Society Some electronics can bend, twist and stretch in wearable displays, biomedical applications, and soft robots. While these devices’ circuits have become increasingly pliable, the…

Arriving in 2022 by Liam Doolan 14 hours ago If you are a fan of the Chibi-Robo! games and would like to see more titles like this, one to watch is Misc. A Tiny Tale by the small indie game developer Tinyware Games. It'll be arriving on Switch in 2022.…

Mobileye’s CEO Amnon Shashua poses with a Mobileye driverless vehicle at the Nasdaq Market site in New York, U.S., July 20, 2021. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon SAN FRANCISCO/MUNICH, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The chief executive of Intel Corp's (INTC.O) self-driving vehicle technology unit Mobileye said it plans an initial deployment of 50…