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 …
The human monopoly on murder…
It would be comical if it weren’t ridiculous. In mid-August 116 “leading figures” of artificial intelligence, including the illustrious owner of Tesla, Elon Musk, sent an urgent and anguished letter …
Terminator and Blade Runner: building cyborgs and humans
Making Cyborgs, Making Humans – Of terminators and blade runners by Forest Pyle is a chapter from the book The Cybercultures Reader (2000, Routledge editions), and we have included its …
Road? Everywhere!
Feeling on their backs the hot breath of the energy paradigm shift in the capitalist world— and thus their own petro-decline— and with nothing to do with the mountains of …
Attention to nature
Whoever is tired of “natural” jellyfish may not be thrilled. Still, the robotic jellyfish from German company Festo was impressive. Perhaps it isn’t the most technically challenging build the firm …