Sewing automata

Can a robotic machine (or a team of such machines) sew clothes? Anyone who has even an amateur relationship with sewing knows that fabrics have lots of whims. Sometimes two …

The metaphysics of cyber-warfare

This is “the bad guy” Sauron, from “the lord of the rings”. ProjectSauron is what the well-known Russian malware fighting company Kaspersky Labs named a new discovery of theirs (almost …

Your robotic pet

Kirobo Mini (the humanoid robot in the photo) is the latest achievement… of Toyota! The Japanese company, famous for its cars, has had an industrial robotics research and manufacturing division …

quantum teleportation

Two separate teams of technoscientists, both funded by the American Pentagon, recently announced that they have (experimentally) achieved quantum teleportation. These are programs of the well-known DARPA, one in China …

Robotic know thyself

Some robots are trained in pain, others learn to draw correct ethical conclusions, but in New York three Japanese NAO robots displayed reactions considered to be the first signs of …

Bring the pain!

Chasing AI (artificial intelligence), the “holy grail” in the field of information technology and robotics, researchers are testing various paths. One of them is breaking the problem into pieces. Thus, …

Transparent world

In the past, all kinds of security services had to “get their hands dirty” in order to achieve a good and reliable rate of filing cases against subjects under surveillance. …

genetic predisposition; no, thank you!

Are we our genes? A large part of the so-called “scientific community” continues to support this view, albeit using statistical tricks. DNA is our “book of life,” written with just …

Ephemeral genes

It is one of those scientific procedures that (with our limited minds) we would hardly consider truly “scientific”: first (some claim) they found the genes for A or B, and …