The image we usually have of robots mostly includes a lot of plastic, a lot of metal, power cables, noisy motors and flashing pilots. This was and remains to a …
Automatic service quality
A rumor has it that at the peak of the “hot autumn” strike wave in northern italy, Agnelli, the owner of fiat, imagined, wished or wanted to hope for a …
Counting beans
How many people make a “crowd”? Ten? Fifty? A hundred? Based on experience, we may be able to distinguish a crowd from a group of friends, but if no auxiliary …
Delicate tasks
As for its looks, the german designed and IBM programmed CIMON-2 (the smiley plastic balloon on the left) does not claim any prizes. Though, it has a rich emotional (and …
House sellers
Having a real-estate agency send employees to accompany clients (prospective buyers) to every single property they simply want to look at (until, after seeing enough, they decide they want to …
Caution!
If you see a vehicle like the one in the photos, do not cross yourselves. It is the new robotic truck of the swedish Scania, which has no driver (it …
Dude, you trod on me!
The russian-made android robot Fedor is not the first automaton to be found on the International Space Station (ISS). But it is the first one that emitted a “distress signal” …
Your robotic friend
Physiognomists will hang up their boots! If 600 different facial expressions can be engineered in the year 2019, then in 2029 (it is not even in a century, eh?!) how will we distinguish who is who?
Collaboration above all…
The announcement itself is undeniably dystopian. Last November, the American DARPA (who else?) announced that it had successfully conducted a live-fire exercise of collaborative robotic weapons—airborne, ground and maritime—without real-time …
Automatic justice
The fact that big data management applications (what will look and be called “artificial intelligence”) will replace high-prestige intellectual work has not only been announced, but has already begun. Robotic …
Cage (safety)
In 2016, the well-known Amazon patented what is shown in the photo: a narrow cage on wheels, controlled from inside, equipped with a robotic arm. Amazon has not yet implemented …
Life on the red planet is passing by relaxedly…
If those little green men with antennas exist, they don’t come from Mars. Unless they once lived there, but messed it up and left. The robotic rover Curiosity (literally: curiosity) …