robotics

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While a robot breaking a child’s finger may be seen as a once-off, it should not be ignored.

The method could help governments tailor their retraining policies and help at-risk workers make smarter choices about career changes.

An agreement has been reached with NASA to use Australian equipment to support future missions to Mars.

We should not underestimate the robotic design principles and technological advances that led to such a dramatic demonstration.

This week, Boston Dynamics (whose dancing robots video I still can’t watch without cracking up) unveiled the newest addition to its robot menagerie. Stretch is the less aesthetically pleasing but highly practical cousin of Atlas, Handle, and Spot, and it has the potential to bring significant changes to warehouse operations. As mundane as “warehouse operations” sounds, consider that online spending represented more than a fifth […]

Policymakers and business leaders will need to develop new related approaches and work together to build innovative production systems that truly benefit everyone.

It’s predicted that traditional agriculture will soon be replaced by industrial-scale brewing of single-celled organisms genetically modified to produce all the nutrients we need and that additive manufacturing and nanotech will build all the materials required for the modern world from the molecule up rather than extracting scarce natural resources.

Automated vehicles don’t have human operators to communicate their driving intentions to pedestrians at intersections. Research on pedestrians’ perceptions of safety shows their trust of traffic lights tends to override their fear of self-driving cars.

The rise of artificial intelligence has led to widespread concern about the role of humans in the workplaces of the future. Indeed, Israeli historian, futurist and publishing sensation Yuval Noah Harari warns in his most recent book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century that there might one day be little need for human labour.

Data61 is pleased as punch to be presented as a world-leading example of how a public body can contribute to national “digital innovation” through a new OECD report.