While he was part of a team of technicians/developers at the Volkswagen car factory in Baunatal, 100 km north of Frankfurt, the stationary parts-selection and handling robot moved past, outside …
cyber-love
The 2015 English psycho-thriller film Ex Machina (not released in Greece), by Alex Garland, tells the story of programmer Caleb Smith, who is invited to the home of his eccentric …
furrows
Gullies of this kind, on craters or on slopes of the surface of Mars, convinced NASA scientists that water flows there. The related announcement has once again fueled fantasies about …
pepper
The robot named Pepper, a creation of the company SoftBank Mobile, is the most recent achievement in robotics in the field of “home services”. Pepper is designed to coexist with …
vaccine for radioactivity
The sign on the barrels is unmistakable: radioactive waste. The promise of nuclear energy has been plagued by leaks for decades. No more. And not for the better… A multidisciplinary …
liquid circuit
It is highly unlikely that you can understand what the image shows, and it is even more unlikely that you would think something like this could be possible. The photo …
primary accumulation
23andMe is a biotechnology company. Its name comes from the 23 pairs of chromosomes in human cells. Although there are many companies offering personalized DNA sequencing, the related services are …
timer
Time (and our sense of it) is a precious matter – yet it has long been expropriated by the techniques of its measurement. Through unconscious processes, the minutes once, and …
“robotic scientist”
The person depicted is Isaac Newton. Now, an algorithm named “Sir Isaac” in his honor is, according to its creators, a small but decisive step toward the “robot scientist.” The …
the new member of the board of directors
It is not symptomatic that the chair in front of the laptop, at the corner of the table, is empty. Nobody went to the restroom; the machine has its place, …
robot-killer
The machine on the left in the photo is called SGR-1, it is built by South Korean Samsung, and it is the first “semi-autonomous” robot-soldier-killer. It has a machine gun …
memory reload
The widespread use of smartphones and personal computers is rapidly weakening our species’ “natural” memory, various researchers claim, and they present this as something “bad.” Is it? In the process …