Robotics, Automation, Transportation

The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) for this year showcased a number of unusual products, from a prototype drone taxi to Hyundai’s walking car. However, one of the most irregular events associated with the show was the apparent maiming of a robot by a Tesla Model S. This car was in autonomous mode at the time and knocked an AI-powered android down as it happened to be crossing the road, or so it seems...

If a flying car doesn't really appeal to you, how about a flying bike? A California company is apparently on the verge of making this dream a reality.

Most modern smartphones have multi-finger touch sensitivity. This means a device can distinguish as many as ten individual fingers when users are touching its screen. But what would a phone do with a finger of its own?

Skydio’s drone is reported to have “self-flying” capabilities. The drone, R1, is capable of locking-on to an individual and following them while shooting videos and avoiding obstacles, simultaneously.

Studying creatures that live far beneath the ocean’s surface can be challenging, to say the least. These animals are often very elusive, and hard to track for the purpose of research. When researchers do manage to catch them, these marine organisms could be hurt, sometimes fatally, in the process.

Farming in the 21st century is becoming more and more automated, as time goes on. In fact, it seems that fully autonomous agri-bots are poised to take on at least some of the grunt-work around the farm. Are these robots ready to form the labor force of the future farm?

Prosthetic technology has made great strides in the last few decades, where they can now coordinate with wearers better than ever before, to help them maintain control over their surroundings.

Scientists and engineers have been envisaging and developing ‘machines’ small enough to swim through blood and move in bodily tissues. The point of such projects is to produce the definitive nanorobot, a new form of medical device that may be able to target things such as dangerous chemicals, virus particles or even cancer cells.

Synthetic limbs, i.e., for those individuals without arms or legs, are getting better in terms of form and function.

Once in a while, a gadget comes along which somehow manages to tug at our heartstrings, even though we know that in reality, it’s just a clever combination of robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Sony’s newly released Aibo puppy is just one of those gadgets.

Whilst many of us can probably remember drifting off at school during a particular lesson where the teacher failed to fully engage our attention, this could possibly become a thing of the past now that researchers have found a way to measure how engaged someone is with computer-based content.

The key words Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision for many of us have the meaning of some sort of robot, usually humanoid, which is able to move into some space, talk to us and has sufficient capabilities to understand some tasks we are asking. Something similar to Sophia, the robot that just became citizen of Saudi Arabia.