by admin | Jan 28, 2020 | Computing and IT, Robotics
I want to know how far the robotics technology has evolved, how close robots are to making sense of the world around them and if we can trust their decisions. This is quite literally a life-and-death issue for all of us, because it’s starting to play out on...
by admin | Jan 27, 2020 | Computing and IT, Robotics
There are already 9 million robots on our planet. They are developing so rapidly, it’s like the arrival of a new species. What has taken humans millennia, robots have achieved in just decades. Now they are tackling their greatest challenge, trying to think like...
by admin | Jan 26, 2020 | Computing and IT, Robotics
fig.1 Eric, Britain's first robotImage by NPR, 2016 In the West, it’s a different story. Many people are afraid of robots and I want to know where this fear comes from. This is Eric, a scary, mechanical man born in 1928. He is the very first British robot. He is...
by admin | Jan 25, 2020 | Computing and IT, Robotics
This blog is a transcription of the BBC documentary “Hyper Evolution: Rise of the Robots” and is part of my research on robotics in preparation for the Open University TM129 module ‘Technologies in Practice’. ‘In labs across the world we...