Experts have given their top predictions for what house technology will revolutionise home living in the near future. When British people were asked which inventions they would most like to see in their future homes, house robots were the most popular, followed by cleaning drones and washing balls. The majority of Brits remain sceptical on … Read more
Handy: Barney Calman with gloves to help stroke patients They look, sound and chatter away pretty much like ordinary people. In reality, they are anything but. Amid much hysteria and hype, tech giants Samsung have unveiled the first ever digitally generated ‘artificial humans’ – a few of them are pictured on these pages. Powered by … Read more
Researchers in Norway test how comfortable salmon in a commercial fish farm being monitored by underwater robots instead of human divers A team of scientists in Norway observed 188,000 salmon in a sea cage fish farm They sent a smaller and larger robot into the water to observe the salmon The fish appeared to be … Read more
Military robots win search and rescue competition as they search for survivors in underground power plant after gas leak DARPA hosted a search and rescue competition for autonomous robots The winning team, from JPL programmed 12 autonomous robots to find warm mannequins standing in for human survivors, and a lost cell phone in the ruins … Read more