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Robots making pizza
At ZUME pizza in Silicon Valley, robots are making pizza and winning the market
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Five hundred years of robots at the British Science Museum
A new exhibit at London’s Science Museum traces five-hundred years of robotic development, from early clockwork-automation – such as the impressive Silver Swann from 1773- to interactive droids. The show features over 100 robots,...
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Classroom robots prepare pupils for high-tech industry
Dancing to a robot in the classroom with robots. It is perhaps a look into the future as robots are going to be used as an educational tool in schools especially to teach pupils specific skills wanted in the high-tech industry. Pilot...
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Partnering with robots
Michael Chui, Partner, McKinsey Global Institute, on tasks that we can pass along to robots
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HyQ – the four-legged robot for disaster zones
As Italy is slowly recovering from a series of deadly earthquakes, researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology of Genoa are developing a new generation of robots to work in disaster zones. The key to the four-legged robot, called...
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Robots getting interactive
Jesse Hirsh, president, Metaviews, talks about artificial intelligence's ability to interact with us
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Bored at the bank? Pepper is here to help
The first of a small army of mini robots has started work at a bank in Taiwan. The robots – called Pepper – are not intended to replace human staff but to work alongside them. They will interact with and entertain customers as they queue...
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Robot can beat you at table football
And you thought you were a table football star? Students at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have developed a robot that can beat humans at the game, hitting the ball almost twice as hard as any real-life...
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Special delivery: robots coming to your front door!
Picture the scene, you order your favourite take away food for delivery. As you fumble in your pocket for a tip and open the door, you are greeted not by a delivery person but rather a two-foot-tall robot. This could well be the future...
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Underwater Earthquake Detectors
Johanna Wagstaffe talks about the seismic measurements being done beneath the sea
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The future of work
Traditional 9-to-5 working patterns and the idea of a job for life could be things of the past. The digital economy means our work lives have changed so much that they’re almost unrecognisable from a few years ago. One study estimates...
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Working in the future: how humans need to adapt
Since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th Century, machines have been taking over from human workers. They are cheaper to run and produce more, but will robots end up doing all our work in the future, and what will be our...
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Really useful robots coming to a home or factory near you
Robotics technology is getting faster, smarter and more talkative, but just how useful can robots be? Power! 106 les robots sont-ils (vraiment) nos amis ?! par ppgarcia75https://t.co/Y7eclwgObK Cc GAGparis #innorobo...
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Researches Collecting Data from Sewer Waste
Researchers at MIT are collecting important health data from the feces and urine found in sewers.
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NASA prepares humanoid robots for trip to Mars
Humanoid Robots to pioneer Mars colonisation? Not the script of a sci-fi movie but what could happen in the near future. NASA, in collaboration with four universities (three in Massachusetts and one in Scotland) is developing a kind of...
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Robot battles encourage girls into science
Simon Fraser University teams up with partners to design program to get more girls interested in science
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Companies Racing to Develop Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Companies such as Google, IBM and Microsoft are spending millions to become tomorrow’s leaders in artificial intelligence. The field is developing faster than you might think.
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Starship Technologies trial robot delivery system in Greenwich, London
The Starship Enterprise, Starship Troopers now Starship Technologies, the company launched by the co-founders of Skype, is hosting trials of its self-driving delivery robots in Greenwich, London. Starship Technologies (starshiprobots) to...
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Robots and the aging population
Canadian scientists are developing robots to assist the elderly with a variety of tasks
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The praying mantis with 3D glasses
A praying mantis with glasses on. In the UK scientists are putting tiny 3D spectacles on the creatures to find out more about how their three.dimensional vision works. Researchers at Newcastle University are hoping to understand more...
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Cutting-edge robotic ‘turtle’ to explore shipwrecks
An underwater robot called U-CAT, inspired by a turtle and developed by a team of engineers at Estonia’s University of Technology in Tallinn, is raising hopes for a new approach to maritime archaeology. It uses fins instead of...
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Battle of the robots at Tallin’s University of Technology
A robotics competition in the Estonian capital Tallinn is aiming inspire the next generation of engineers. Around 1,500 competitors together with 650 robots gathered at Tallinn’s University of Technology to battle it out in various...
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A rare glimpse at a leading Canadian ocean research facility
Ocean gliders and sensors that track fish around the world will be on display at Dalhousie University this weekend to mark a very special anniversary. Paul Withers has the story.
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These Windsor-Essex students are headed to the World Robotics Championship
The robotics teams from Belle River District High School is one of two local schools heading to the FIRST Robotics World Championships in Texas this week.