Tag: Robotics

May 9, 2017

Industrial robots used in factories and warehouses that are connected to the internet are not secure, leaving companies open to cyberattacks and costly damages. That’s the word coming from a study conducted by global security software company Trend Micro and […]

January 13, 2017

With every new innovation in the artificial intelligence space, it becomes even more tempting to imagine a near future filled with humanoid robots ready and willing to accomplish any task. After all, that’s what we’ve been promised by sci-fi movies […]

January 5, 2017

The driverless cars have not reached the stage of mass convenience. Not yet, at least. Nevertheless, they remain a hot topic, and there isn’t another week without supplementary information on their performance, regulatory state, technical improvements and so on. Only […]

December 27, 2016

Until this year, computers were no match for a human at another board game, Go. That all changed in March when AlphaGo, developed by Google subsidiary DeepMind, beat Lee Sedol, then the world’s strongest Go player, 4-1 in a five-match […]

November 11, 2016

Microsoft is betting on artificial intelligence (AI) with the creation at the end of September of a new AI and Research Group. This newly formed group brings together Microsoft’s research organization and more than 5,000 computer scientists and engineers focused […]

October 13, 2016

The White House sees artificial intelligence as an increasingly critical technology that can fight cyber-attacks, upgrade weapons of war, improve health care and even unclog traffic for the commute home. However, the Obama administration also expects that A.I. will reduce […]

October 6, 2016

The large-scale automatization of manufacturing processes and of services is not fresh out the box, yet it managed to remain a hot topic.  Various online sources have debated in 2015 how the digital revolution will look like and what it […]

May 31, 2016

Asus has just unveiled what’s likely to be the most talked about product at this week’s Computex trade show in Taipei, a cute talking robot for the home priced at $599. Called Zenbo, Asus pitched it as a personal assistant […]

May 27, 2016

One factory has “reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots”, a government official told the South China Morning Post.  Xu Yulian, head of publicity for the Kunshan region, added: “More companies are likely to […]

April 5, 2016

In 2014, robot sales increased by 29% to 229,261 units, by far the highest level ever recorded for one year. Sales of industrial robots to all industries increased compared to 2013. The automotive parts suppliers and the electrical/electronics industry were […]

February 8, 2016

Engineers from Drexel University have devised a bacteria-powered microrobot that can be steered through fluids with applied electric fields. Imagine a tiny, tiny robotic system covered over by even tinier biomolecular arms (flagella) working cooperatively as a “bacterial surface” to […]

July 28, 2015

If you look at the practical applications of robotics, the vast majority of robots that you see today are in factories doing high precision, high-speed work, such as sticking, placing, grinding, deburring, painting, that sort of thing. The first generation […]

February 24, 2015

Japanese giant Softbank now owns 95% of the shares in French robotics company Aldebaran. The new shares come from Bruno Maisonnier, who will step down as CEO of the company he founded on March 4. Softbank took a 78.5% interest […]