The Canadian technologist envisions a dizzying evolution of artificial intelligence that promises benefits across various sectors, but warns humanity must proactively anticipate its implications
In the country with the highest life expectancy in the world — currently facing the crisis of an aging population — scientists, healthcare professionals and technology companies are coming together to fight against problems such as loneliness, cognitive deterioration and loss of mobility
The Japanese researcher discusses the use of robots in surgical operations, virtualized reality and why we must be smarter and faster than malicious technologies
The historian criticizes the U.S. government’s inability to deter attacks by the Taliban, Putin and Hamas, and warns that AI may negatively affect our cognitive abilities
The robots proposed by Hiroaki Kitano, Sony’s chief technology officer, could test all the imaginable hypotheses generated by an artificial intelligence system and discard the incorrect ones
Given the advances in AI, experts in digital rights want to start supervise and improve algorithms, to prevent new technologies from violating human rights
Touch is central to the relationship between humans and their surroundings. This also applies to robots and their creators. A European project spearheaded by the University of Bologna is teaching machines to distinguish between what they touch in order to apply the appropriate degree of force
As labor shortages affect the industry, sales of these machines have been growing rapidly in recent years, with tens of thousands now gliding through dining rooms worldwide