Moravec‘s Paradox

SynopsisThe inclusion of women has improved the culture and discipline on the shopfloor because female associates are keener on punctuality, process adherence and following guidelines. Nisha Rani joined Swaraj Tractors at the end of 2019. She works on the assembly line and says it was the best decision of her…

By Matthew Sparkes A pedestrian crossing in Hong Kong’s Central district @ Didier Marti/Getty Images Pedestrians should wear radar reflectors to avoid being run over by self-driving cars, says a team of researchers that has created a device to make people more visible to a vehicle’s artificial intelligence. Self-driving cars…

Getty Images/EyeEm An artificial intelligence basketball trainer you can use at home! HomeCourt is an interactive basketball training app that uses AI to provide drills and track your progress. As you can see from me trying to explain this to the Secret Base crew, it’s a little hard to explain…

HONG KONG, Mar 4, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - Tianda Pharmaceuticals Limited ("Tianda Pharmaceuticals", together with its subsidiaries as the "Group", Stock Code: 455.HK) is pleased to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Tianda Pharmaceutical (Zhuhai) Co., Ltd., has entered into a Technology Transfer Contract with Heilongjiang Jiren Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.…

HONG KONG, Mar 4, 2021 - (ACN Newswire) - CITIC Telecom International Holdings Limited ("CITIC Telecom" or the "Group"; stock code: 1883), a leading international integrated telecommunications and information and communications technologies services provider in Asia, reported profit attributable to equity shareholders of HK$1,023 million for the year ended 31…

Watch out, giant squids and anglerfish: There may be a new, artificial addition to Earth’s deep-sea ecosystems. A research team led by scientists from Zhejiang University in eastern China have designed a fish-like robot with a flexible, soft body to explore the greatest depths of the ocean. The battery-powered robot…

Guillermo Del Toro’s 2013 hit Pacific Rim was a case of two entertaining things that went well together—namely, enormous Godzilla-style monsters and equally gargantuan robot animé mechas. It was a hybrid concept predicated on scale, with titanic armored warriors dubbed Jaegers doing thunderous weaponized and hand-to-hand combat with creatures known…

Coffee tasting, otherwise known as coffee ‘cupping’, is the process by which the characteristics of a coffee bean are evaluated. Not dissimilar to a conventional sensory panel, when cupping, experts check a particular bean’s fragrance, aroma, acidity, body, flavour, and finish. However, according to ag and food tech start-up Demetria,…

The U.S., which once had a dominant head start in artificial intelligence, now has just a few years' lead on China and risks being overtaken unless government steps in, according to a new report to Congress and the White House. Why it matters: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who chaired…

Welcome to Bernard Keane's Side View, a curated guide to new and overlooked content on politics, policy, and public affairs. This week, I have mostly been reading about Texas power failures, Polish Holocaust denialism, the possibility of victory for the Taliban and, just for some light relief, putting guns on robot dogs.…