| We’ve all seen the amazing capabilities of flocks of birds and schools of fish to move seemingly as one. Such collective behavior can be wit...
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| Old school robots don’t particularly like unstructured environments such as the homes of us messy humans. Objects are moved, task descriptio...
| ‘Science fiction has a pretty poor track record of absorbing scientific truths’, says science fiction writer Alastair Reynolds. ‘The most in...
| An Internet of drones. That is what John Robb, inventor and military strategist, proposes to tackle the problems related to last mile delive...
| This month: - The female engineers archive - Meet your new colleague - Underground’ radio - The case against the killer robo...
| This article first appeared in the December issue of Elektor. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the merger of the physical and the digital wo...
| It does not happen often. Calling for a public debate about the desirability of a technology that is still at least 20 or 30 years away from...
| With everybody constantly on their phones, the emergence of the Internet of Things and augmented reality, ubiquitous computing does not seem...
| A sensor array that can be strapped to the chest builds a map in real time as the user moves through the environment. The team of MIT’s Co...
| In the 2005 comic book series The Surrogates (turned into a movie by the same name in 2009) people remotely operate humanoid robotic substit...