Feeling weird about being served by robot staff? What if your humanoid waiter was creating employment opportunities for flesh-and-bone workers...
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A new circular model of housing entirely created with reusable and recyclable materials has taken form in Italy thanks to...
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A self-trained robotics engineer is sparking creativity and accelerating science learning in Africa – with a strong focus on rural...
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Wearables, medical devices, AI and data come together in this lightweight exoskeleton for robot rehab. And it's been tested by former...
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Welcome to the future of recycling. A waste-sorting AI robot that can tell a Coke bottle from a Pepsi one? It...
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A startup in India is using AI to address the growing urban problems of water loss and pollution, by predicting...
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Imagine going from 30 to 80 years old in ten minutes by slipping on an age simulation suit and going...
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A picture paints a thousand words – but when it comes to fashion, there’s a lot more to say. Texture is...
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Clearly not pretending to be human, Intuition Robotics' ElliQ is an AI-powered companion that is half tablet, half robot and...
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One of the planet’s smallest and fastest-growing organisms is helping inventor-engineer Julian Melchiorri to think macro by playing with the micro;...
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“In the 20th century, we learned to read, so we could read to learn. Now, we’re learning to make so...
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Millions of amputees worldwide live with the loss of a limb, especially in developing countries that don’t often have access...
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FutureFun – Submitted by you: Circatronic is a retro futuristic steampunk electronic circus with robotic animals – that the WWF...
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In the words of the people behind it, this might just be "the coolest thing you will see all year". And they're not...
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Gum, coins, Lego, batteries; infants and young children will eat the strangest things. Most small toys will pass through a child’s digestive...
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We are on the verge of a massive technological development in maritime transport, potentially the biggest since the transition from...
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Our thirst for computer programs and mobile apps shows no sign of abating. From online to the impending launch of...
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The world is on an unsustainable path, but powerful ideas and innovations that could help solve social, economic and environmental...
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Today mankind does incredible things. Thirty years of digital revolution have brought previously unimaginable advances in the way we live...
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In light of this century’s gains in life expectancy, the issue of supporting older people so that they can remain in...
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Soft robot technology is often considered to be robots without 'bones', which can move and manipulate thanks to their rubbery...
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Plants are more intelligent than we often give them credit for. Over billions of years of evolution they have had to...
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Please note: This glove should be available by the end of 2017. You can get more information here. Tasks such as opening doors...
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“Humans are optimised to walk very efficiently. However, people with disabilities often have reduced function of their muscles.” At Wyss...
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Imagine a metal that can be bent and stretched up to four times its original length. Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de...
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Apple has built a new automated recycle-bot that can ‘kill’ an iPhone, ripping it apart in seconds. Meet Liam, the rapid-speed...
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Did you know that origami isn’t just useful for creating swans or cranes – or folding solar arrays for launch...
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Imagine climbing a skyscraper while carrying an elephant. Or dragging a blue whale around on land. Engineers from Stanford’s Biomimetics...
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Is this the future of research and rescue missions? Having won the one million dollar 2015 UAE Drones for Good...
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A vegetable factory that plans to open in Kyoto in 2017 will be the first farm to be entirely run by...
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By now you’ve probably had some exposure to the driverless technology phenomenon – even if it’s that taxi in Total...
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Barcelona-based studio Noumena have used their collective backgrounds in design, research and education to develop a data-collecting drone that maps the...
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Self-driving robots look set to shake up the delivery business, worth a massive US$4 billion globally. And it's Skype who came up...
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Minibuilders takes 3D printing on a large scale to a new level. There has always been a close relationship between...
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At first glance, Moley’s Robotic Kitchen looks like a gizmo from a futuristic film, a toy of excess, a super-expensive...
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A South Korean robotic team has taken home $2 million prize money in an international competition to design semi-autonomous robots...
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BMW and Chinese search engine Baidu have successfully tested driverless car in Beijing. Baidu are China’s answer to Google and, as...
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In space and forgotten your spanner? No problem. In November 2014 a 3D printer successfully printed its first object in...
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For those craving independence and interaction, a team of European academics, designers and organisations has created a consortium to support ageing...
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