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 …
cyberterritorial history
The evolution of cyberspace is both a quantitative and qualitative perspective that has followed the course of the Internet and network and computer technology almost faithfully. In 1991 the creation …
Courier – Internet: 1-0!
It is neither sophistry nor a joke, but an actual condition: the internet has overwhelmingly less bandwidth compared to traditional postal services. So much less that Google itself, when it …
drone fishing
Have you ever wondered how much a drone costs? The market is now so developed, and there is such a wide variety of models, that anyone can purchase a reliable …
“prevention of abnormalities”
Last February, the British parliament passed a law approving corrective genetic interventions in egg DNA, using DNA segments from another woman’s eggs. The birth of children from “three parents” (the …
home helpers
The humanoid robot in the photo cooks (among other things). But there’s no reason to worry: it won’t replace “mom,” and it won’t fill lunchboxes… Home robotic machines are one …
uninterrupted transport
This is a fundamental function of technology: to replace living labour. To throw workers onto the street, that is, in order to keep the working class disciplined. The excerpt below …
robotic self-organization
From a technological and construction perspective, it is something remarkable. The robotic ants are the work of one of the leading companies in research and application of cutting-edge technologies: the …
automatic execution
The vehicle in the image could be a small tank. And indeed it is. With a difference. It is robotic and completely autonomous. “Completely autonomous” means that it is guided …
refrigerator jacket
The world and its inhabitants are looking for ways to slim down (at least until the fashionable items that will impose: lift and tuck to take another walk around the …
flex screens
No one was interested (until now) in how flexible screens, televisions or “smartphones” are made, and the reason is simple: such products are not yet available on the market. And …