“Researchers lie” (not always!). If you make this kind of observation in front of even one researcher, from any field, you’ll get seriously bashed. It’s the fate of the “unskilled”: …
robot-games
“The children are playing.” Not only with tablets (on the left) but also with small-scale robots (in the middle). Children’s play will undoubtedly be a process of familiarization with domestic …
Ehang 184
Our opinion (for years now!) that land-based transportation is obsolete, since it is limited to the two dimensions of the ground while there is an (capitalistically) untapped 3rd dimension (the …
biometric cinema
DiCaprio as Hugh Glass in “The Revenant” by Alejandro Inarritu. Before you saw the film (if you did), others had already seen it. The production company, 20th Century Fox, held …
workplace homicide;
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 …