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) …
Welcome to our store!
What could this be that appears in the photograph? The reception at a high-tech hotel perhaps? Or maybe at an electronics store? Could it perhaps be the passenger service desk …
Don’t even think about escaping!!!
If the (rather intimidating) machines in the photo above remind you of bulldozers, “you’re close.” They are robotic deep-sea excavators. These particular ones can dig down to depths of 1,000 …
Robotic surgery
The fact that an operating room (already now, even more so in the near future) will resemble to a large extent an assembly line of objects (photos on the cover …
Robotic justice
In 2013, the state of Michigan replaced the 25-year-old computerized system of the unemployment insurance agency (equivalent to OAED in Greece) with a modern automated system called MiDAS (Michigan Integrated …
the invasion of killer robots
A microscopic quadcopter with a diameter of just three centimeters can carry one to two grams of explosive material. You can easily order as many as you want from various …
Citius, altius, fortius, digitalius
One of South Korea’s goals during the Winter Olympics (which began on 9 February, with the Paralympics ending in mid-March) is to showcase its robotics achievements before the eyes of …
Νευρόσκονη
In early August last year, a team of researchers from the University of Berkeley, led by neuroscientist Jose Carmera and computer engineer Michel Maharbiz, published in the specialized journal Neyron …