When it comes to dancing, pulling a sled, climbing stairs or doing tricks, “Spot” is definitely a good dog. It…
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With the proliferation of female robots such as Sophia and the popularity of female virtual assistants such as Siri (Apple), Alexa (Amazon)…
In 2017, I returned to Canada from Sweden, where I had spent a year working on automation in mining. Shortly after…
In the 2012 film “Robot and Frank”, the protagonist, a retired cat burglar named Frank, is suffering the early symptoms…
It’s been suggested that an advance party of robots will be needed if humans are ever to settle on other…
Artificial intelligence seems to be making enormous advances. It has become the key technology behind self-driving cars, automatic translation systems, speech and…
Skin is our largest organ, made up of complex sensors constantly monitoring for anything that might cause us pain. Our…
Surgical emergencies are in fact one of the main challenges when it comes to human space travel. But over the last few years, space medicine researchers have come up with a number of ideas that could help, from surgical robots to 3D printers.
Ah, the promised potential of the robotic helper. We all need an occasional hand living our day to day lives,…
Do you know that adorable BB-8 and R2D2 droids? Not the ones in the George Lucas sci-fi films, but rather…