Given the aging of the population and the low birthrate both in Japan and elsewhere, healthcare professionals are in short supply and unevenly distributed, giving rise to a need for alternat... Read more
IN THE end, the robots won. On December 3rd, Google announced that it was radically changing its ReCAPTCHA system, the sort of prove-you’re-a-human-and-not-automated-software test that... Read more
The speech rate of Cambridge scientist Professor Stephen Hawking has doubled and his productivity increased ten-fold because of new technology. Prof Hawking has revealed how tech giant Intel... Read more
Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain’s pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to our very existence. He told the BBC:”The develop... Read more
As an actress, producer, director and theatre arts lecturer at The University of Texas at Arlington, Julienne Greer knows the techniques that help draw people’s deepest emotions to the surfa... Read more
Plants have amazing and significant sensing capabilities. For instance, each single root apex can simultaneously and continuously monitor many chemical and physical parameters. Natural organ... Read more
Researchers have created a control system that makes robots more intelligent. Using arm sensors that can “read” a person’s muscle movements, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have ... Read more
More and more, they are also beginning to imitate — and look like — humans. And they are beginning to perform tasks as humans do, too. On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris... Read more
Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro’s created the Geminoid HI-2–a robotic clone of himself with programming that gives it entirely realistic body language. A robot gave me side-eye fo... Read more
We don’t just share our lives with animals; we are animals – a reality that we often choose to forget in modern Western culture. Research published in the June special issue of SAGE jo... Read more
Roboy is a robot with a future. He represents a new generation of robots and an innovative research direction for science and industry. This pioneering project began a good five months ago a... Read more
It’s time to reinvent the formula for how work is conducted, since we are still relying on a very 20th century notion of work The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as th... Read more
DARPA links human brainwaves, improved sensors, cognitive algorithms to improve target detection For warfighters operating in the field, the ability to detect threats from standoff d... Read more
Looking at human beings as ecosystems that contain many collaborating and competing species could change the practice of medicine If the microbiome does turn out to be as important as curren... Read more
Is there also an uncanny valley that applies to our level of comfort One day, people won’t have to type queries into a box to search for information. It’ll be delivered to them, via their va... Read more
