Getting a robot to run 100m faster than Usain Bolt is impressive. But how about a humanoid that can make you a cup of tea in your own kitchen?
- Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
Vivid Sydney’s drone disaster shows why ensuring autonomous aircraft can perform safe, emergency landings must be a priority.
The real opportunity is not to build robot champions, but to better understand human performance.
If we’re going to put an AI brain somewhere, it’s likely going to be a robot. The next step – making that robot immortal.
In a few Australian suburbs, a cup of coffee or toothpaste can now arrive via the air. But that doesn’t mean drones are going to be widespread – for now.
Amazon’s planned upcoming ‘Just Walk Out’ technology will let customers take items off a store’s shelf, bag them, and walk straight out.
Our sense of touch lets us know how hard or soft something is, how solid or pliable it is to handle. That’s an important skill if you want robots to handle things safely.
La revolución de los robots ya está ocurriendo, pero ¿cuánto sabemos sobre el impacto de las máquinas programables en nuestra vida diaria?
Plenty of services use AI to study your behaviour to suggest new things to you. So could such a tool help you decide how to vote?
The robot revolution is happening right but how much do you know about the impact of programmable machines in your everyday life?
For roboticists looking to nature for inspiration on how animals see the world, there’s a tension between mimicking biology and capitalising on the advances in camera technology.
The art and design industry in Australia is demanding ‘mass customisation’ of works of art. Robots may be the answer – and they’re creating jobs already.
Robots have already learned to cheat when playing games. How do we teach them morals if we want them more involved in our everyday lives?
Artists invented the word ‘robot’, but now robots are becoming artists, or at least assistants, themselves. As robots get smarter, artists will find more and more uses for them, particularly in sculpture.
Surgeons say minor unintentional damage can happen during surgery, and much of that goes unreported. They say they would be prepared to use robotic tools if they could be shown to help.
NASA says there are ten “potentially hazardous” asteroids close to Earth. Good reason to make sure we have a backup plan should any catastrophic event wipe of much of life on Earth.
Star Wars was a swashbuckling space fantasy that inspired some of the technology we see today, four decades after the film’s release.
Flying cars have been the stuff of science fiction for years, and now companies are now starting to look at such options. But what will it take to get our cars off the ground?
For a driverless car to be safer than one driven by a person it must know what’s going on around it. But making a system that can “see” is a challenge for tech companies.
When you don’t need a human to drive a car there are plenty of things you can do with such a vehicle.
Rebel fighters in the latest Star Wars movie are helped by a droid that was captured from the enemy and reprogrammed. Could that happen in real life with today’s autonomous weapons?
It’s a race that’s pitting the motor industry against tech giants and even the ridesharing company Uber. But what will be the impact when driverless cars take to the roads?
In the future some humans may be born without either a mother or father as we now know them, and with no other humans around to bring them up.
Attend any ANZAC Day parade and you might see people carrying banners with holes cut in them. They’re supposed to cut any drag or wind resistance but do they do any good?
Thousands of hip replacement operations are performed each year, but today is the first time in Australia that a robot will help with the surgery.
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