In early November, a self-driving shuttle and a delivery truck collided in Las Vegas. The event, in which no one was…
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Industrial robots have existed since the 1960s, when the first Unimate robotic arm was installed at a General Motors plant in the…
Luckily I lave been a technology journalist for 20 years – which only constituted practise before I had to make…
Picture someone who works in tech. They might fit a stereotype: Heavy-rimmed glasses, hoodie, T-shirt branded with a start-up’s logo,…
Africa has become a testing ground for technological leapfrogging. This is a process that involves skipping stages and moving rapidly to the frontiers…
Humanoid robots are a vanity project: an attempt to create artificial life in our own image – essentially trying to…
Biomedical engineering can save lives. It draws on and integrates knowledge from disciplines like engineering, computer science, biomedical sciences, and…
If you think technologies from Star Trek seem far-fetched, think again. Many of the devices from the acclaimed television series are slowly…
Another suite of Apple iPhones, another media frenzy. Much has been written about the iPhone X, the demise of the…
The United Nations (UN) estimates that by 2050, 66% of the world’s population will live in cities. This creates an unprecedented pressure…