Moravec‘s Paradox

From the initially reported outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19) in China to the spread of it across the globe, Medtech companies are rolling out robots and drones to help fight it and provide services and care to those quarantined or practicing social distancing. This pandemic has fast-tracked the "testing" of robots…

Olli 2.0 Local Motors by LMI (2) Local Motors Some of the most consequential technological and economic advances happen where two innovation trends intersect. Local Motors, a company that has been revolutionizing manufacturing to transform the future of mobility, is a perfect example. Founded in 2007, from the very start…

Cambridge outstripped London in 2019 for investment per head in tech companies.It received £3,361 of investment per person, compared to just £840.25 in London, despite the capital having 51,000 digital tech businesses generating £64billion turnover.Tim Brears, CEO of Evonetix, which recently secured £23m of investment.It made the city comfortably top…

Artificial intelligence is driving massive improvement and innovation in the healthcare and life sciences sectors. AI is expediting advances in drug research and discovery. It’s allowing for better and faster diagnoses. And it’s enabling far greater efficiency in business processes. That’s noteworthy considering so many of us stand to benefit…

The team of teenagers from Sutton Grammar School A school in Sutton are hoping to scoop a £25,000 tech prize. A shortlist of 40 teams of youngsters from across the UK was announced today, all competing to take the Longitude Explorer Prize back to their school or youth group. The…

Artificial intelligence is all the rage these days. In the popular media, regular cyber systems seem almost passe, as writers focus on AI and conjure up images of everything from real-life Terminator robots to more benign companions. In intelligence circles, China’s uses of closed-circuit television, facial recognition technology, and other…

Home News (Image credit: Image Credit: Wichy / Shutterstock) It may still be true that a business is only as strong as its employees. But, given our ever-increasing digital world, it might be time to give those employees some help.By nature, humans are prone to error. And as our digital…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption There is growing fear about the spread of the virus Executives from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook met officials at Downing Street on Wednesday to discuss their role in the coronavirus crisis.One of the things discussed was their role in "modelling and tracking…

The History Of Human-Passing Robots This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. The third season of Westworld premieres this week, as HBO’s dystopian future show moves out of the amusement park to the outside world. But the core theme remains the same:…

The newest edition of NASA's small, foldable robots recently practiced their scouting skills and successfully traversed rugged terrain in the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. JPL developed the Autonomous Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (A-PUFFER) to scout regions on the Moon and gain intel about…