Moravec‘s Paradox

Over the past few years I’ve had many opportunities to speak on the subject of technology—a natural consequence of having written a book called The Next Story: Faith, Friends, Family, and the Digital World. I almost invariably end my speeches with a time of Q&A and one question I can…

Outsourcing human decisions to computers used to bear a glimmer of hope for a more equal society: a robot cannot tell the difference between genders, geographies or skin colours and it will treat everyone equally, right?Wrong. And the wake-up was quite harsh as we realised that an algorithm is only…

Airline staff can communicate with customers through the screen on a robot. Photo: robotstart.info All Nippon Airways (ANA), the largest airline in Japan, recently announced it was deploying 1,000 robots in shopping malls, tourist attractions, museums and hospitals in Tokyo before the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. The robot, named “Newme,”…

Over the years, humans have predicted fantastical feats would be achieved by 2020, from robot servants to public space travel. Now that 2020 is here, some of the accomplishments are different—but still grand. In the decade ahead, transformational technologies that better meet constituent needs will define the missions of local…

In the months leading up to Christmas of 1998, parents assembled in droves to buy their children a furry, talking, animal-like toy—equal parts gerbil, owl, and gremlin. It was no bigger than a Nerf basketball, and had wide, blinking eyes with long lashes. From late October 1998 to the end…

Turning the challenges of manufacturing into new opportunities for success with digital transformation. The global manufacturing world seems to be travelling back in time. Large production plants and long assembly lines, where goods were mass produced in hundreds and thousands, may become a thing of the past. Instead we are…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and medicine Chris Smith & Phil Sansom, The Naked ScientistsChris Smith and Phil Sansom delve into the world of artificial Intelligence (AI) to find out how this emerging technology is changing the way we practise medicine...Mike -  I think this is an area where AI stands a…

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By Thanussha Priyah, 24 Feb 2020 Video screenshot via Hisashi Ishihara (CC BY 4.0)A Blade Runner-esque future might arrive sooner than you think. A team at Osaka University from Japan has created a robot that is able to feel affliction, in hopes to teach empathy to artificial intelligence. The team…

Opinion polls reveal that Europeans are greatly concerned about the economic consequences of advanced technologies, but our understanding of this relationship is still incomplete. This column assesses the impact of one such technology – industrial robots – on employment in Europe over the last two decades. Combining industry-level data on…