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) …
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 …