Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau recently announced a C$2.4-billion (£1.4bn) investment in artificial intelligence. Part of the funding will create…
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A robot is chatting to an elderly British man in his bedroom. The robot has a cheery demeanour and a…
AI has long since surpassed humans in cognitive matters that were once considered the supreme disciplines of human intelligence like…
Cotton is one of the world’s largest crops and is harvested with large, heavy machines. Robotic harvesting could yield higher-quality cotton with less damage to plants and soil.…
‘Loopy’ is a multicellular robot inspired by biology and designed to react to its environment without instructions on how to do so. My colleagues and I…
Scientists have been trying to build snakelike, limbless robots for decades. These robots could come in handy in search-and-rescue situations,…
The landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) applications has traditionally been dominated by the use of resource-intensive servers centralised in industrialised…
Problems of racial and gender bias in artificial intelligence algorithms and the data used to train large language models like…
Bewilderingly rapid changes are happening in the technology and reach of computer systems. There are exciting advances in artificial intelligence,…
Social robots – robots that can talk and mimic and respond to human emotion – have been introduced into classrooms…
