The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality
Airplane seats are getting smaller and smaller, clothes are unrecognizable after the second wash, and machines now answer our calls. Quality and care for craftsmanship seem to be things of the past
China has a plan: Technological innovation to secure its place on the geopolitical stage
Amid the trade war with the US, Beijing’s regime is prioritizing technology as a key driver of economic and political power
A robot shows that machines may one day replace human surgeons
The new system, which combines generative AI and machine learning, has performed with 100% accuracy some of the surgical tasks required to remove pig gallbladders
A robotic arm made from human tissue: Science advances toward living muscle prosthetics
Laboratories in Barcelona and Tokyo are combining organic and artificial elements to create biological robots that mimic the body’s movements, functionality, and regenerative capacity
Google moves toward ‘universal AI’: Gemini to gain context awareness and execution capabilities
The multinational has unveiled its latest developments, initially available to users with the most advanced and premium subscriptions. Meanwhile, Microsoft joins the race to develop intelligent agent
Twelve tech trends to watch in 2025: The dawn of the convergence era
Individual breakthroughs are being integrated into complex developments that will reshape the digital landscape in the coming years
Workers fear the age of robots: Will a machine take my job?
Artificial intelligence has changed the paradigm of work. Humanoids are gaining ground over human labor, and some experts predict they will soon overtake us
Stephen Ibaraki, international tech consultant: ‘We need to prepare for what will happen in five years’
The Canadian technologist envisions a dizzying evolution of artificial intelligence that promises benefits across various sectors, but warns humanity must proactively anticipate its implications
How to use AI against conspiracy theories: ‘No, immigration does not increase crime’
Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence chatbot to combat toxic messages and misinformation with data
My robot and I: Japanese stories of technology and old age
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
Takeo Kanade, engineer: ‘Artificial vision will bring teleportation, but without decomposing your body and shipping it another place’
The Japanese researcher discusses the use of robots in surgical operations, virtualized reality and why we must be smarter and faster than malicious technologies
Figure 01, the robot closest to the humanoid machines of science fiction
Robotics is advancing towards embodiment and learning formulas that allow android robots to be developed with aspects and behaviors typical of people
Meet ANYmal, the four-legged robot that could substitute humans in dangerous environments
The all-terrain machine can move through difficult landscapes, analyze its surroundings and tackle real-world challenges autonomously
Niall Ferguson: ‘The Russians can win the war. The foreign policy of the Biden administration has been very unsuccessful’
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
We are entering the era of the robot scientist
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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
From autonomous weapons and nukes, to robots and AI: how do we regulate technologies that have unforeseeable consequences?
Given the advances in AI, experts in digital rights want to start supervise and improve algorithms, to prevent new technologies from violating human rights
Kate Darling, robot expert: ‘We shouldn’t laugh at people who fall in love with a machine. It’s going to be all of us’
The MIT researcher, who has spent years studying the interactions between humans and machines, analyzes the explosion of artificial intelligence
Robots that feel what they touch
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
Are robot waiters the future? Some restaurants think so
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
Another job lost to AI: ‘The human factor may soon disappear’
Alejandro Graue is a voice actor who was replaced by a speech-generating computer program. But the big problem, he says, is what lies ahead