Robots make headlines when they imitate us: they converse in almost human voices, write texts that sound like ours, or “read” emotions on a screen. But the truly important leap is another: to stop copying us and start complementing us, designing capabilities that fill in our gaps—attention, biases, fatigue—and valuing machines for their impact on […] … learn more→

We are witnessing a progressive growth of artificial intelligence (AI). Actually, what has grown and been massively deployed since November 2022 is one of its branches: generative AI (GenAI) . This artificial intelligence is capable of generating text, images, and videos, adapted to the format and purpose we desire. For example, texts to promote products on social […] … learn more→

Last Saturday night, a young woman out on the town in Brisbane saw a dog-shaped robot trotting towards her and did what many of us might have felt an urge to do: she gave it a solid kick in the head. After all, who hasn’t thought about lashing out at “intelligent” technologies that frustrate us as […] … learn more→

A cylindrical robot rolls into a treatment room to allow health care workers to remotely take temperatures and measure blood pressure and oxygen saturation from patients hooked up to a ventilator. Another robot that looks like a pair of large fluorescent lights rotated vertically travels throughout a hospital disinfecting with ultraviolet light. Meanwhile a cart-like robot brings food to […] … learn more→

Today, you can almost solve any problem using software. However, did you know that some problems can’t be solved by software? While software plays a huge role in enhancing diverse universal robot applications, you will first have to solve some common problems as we shall see below. A messy process which no one can comprehend […] … learn more→