Amazon Now Has Machines to Automatically Box Up Orders
By: Victor Tangermann May 13, 2019 According to a Reuters exclusive, Amazon is rolling out specially-made machines that are capable of boxing up orders — a job currently held by thousands of human workers. The CartonWrap robots build cardboard boxes around orders as they come down an assembly line, according Reuters’ sources. Each one processes […]
Robot butlers operated by remote workers are coming to do your chores
By: James Vincent May 9, 2019 For pretty much as long as robots have existed, humans have wanted robot butlers: autonomous machines that do our bidding around the home. But our imagination exceeds our technological capabilities, and the closest we’ve come to building Rosie the Robot is either specialized machines like robot vacuum cleaners or […]
Scientists have found a way to convert thoughts into speech
By: Mark Serrels April 30, 2019 Sure, speaking is great, and an effective method of communication, but what if that’s not a possibility? What if you suffer from some sort of paralysis or neurological impairment and you literally can’t speak? Researchers at the University of California think they’ve made a crucial first step at solving […]
Autonomous vehicles make congestion pricing even more critical
By: Tech Crunch April 28, 2019 Autonomous vehicles will soon be ubiquitous on city streets. Before this happens, we should ask ourselves: Will they whisk us quickly through cities or make traffic worse? A car is a car, whether self-driving or people driven—taking up a great deal more space than busses, streetcars, or trains—so let’s […]
Creating the present by imagining the future: The power of science fiction
By: Charles-Edouard Bouée April 15, 2019 Technological progress is growing exponentially and we hazard that the so-called obsolescence of the law attributed to Moore will have no consequence whatsoever on this surge. We are experiencing a tremendous cultural shift in the way we adapt to technological changes. We are pushed to turn our relation to […]
An Australian start-up is using robots to pull weeds and herd cattle
By: Anmar Frangoul April 10, 2019 An Australian start-up that develops robots which use artificial intelligence is hoping to soon sell its technology to the wider market. The company, called Agerris, specializes in both “air and ground field robotic systems” for agriculture. It uses tech that has been developed at the University of Sydney’s Australian […]
Could robots make us better humans?
By: John Harris March 5, 2019 As Marcus du Sautoy greets me at the entrance to New College, Oxford, his appearance is a quiet riot of colour. His clothes rather suggest someone who ran into White Stuff or Fat Face and frantically grabbed anything he could find – in this case, a salmon zip-up top, […]
How AI Will Go Out Of Control According To 52 Experts
By: CBINSIGHTS February 19, 2019 ‘Summoning the demon.’ ‘The new tools of our oppression.’ ‘Children playing with a bomb.’ These are just a few ways the world’s top researchers and industry leaders have described the threat that artificial intelligence poses to mankind. Will AI enhance our lives or completely upend them? There’s no way around […]
Virtual fences, robot workers, stacked crops: farming in 2040
By: Jamie Doward February 17, 2019 It is 2040 and Britain’s green and pleasant countryside is populated by robots. We have vertical farms of leafy salads, fruit and vegetables, and livestock is protected by virtual fencing. Changing diets have seen a decline in meat consumption while new biotech production techniques not only help preserve crops […]