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The Irish manufacturing industry is using new tech to develop ‘batch-of-one’ processing.
With tech’s rapid development, are we really at the mercy of machines or is it all just hype?
The robot was built and designed in Trinity College Dublin.
Two out of five Irish jobs are likely to be “substantially impacted” by automation, according to new research.
Robots have already taken over millions of manufacturing jobs.
At peak times, customers have to wait up to two hours to get on the Viking Voyage attraction.
The Taoiseach has said “almost anyone in employment at all levels” could be affected.
The Taoiseach has said many professions could be affected, meaning people will need to upskill and retrain.
Oh, and… hello flying robots.
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“We do not have long to act. Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will be hard to close.”
One “joked” that he thought the robots’ goal was to take over the world.
A new report examines the implications of sex robots going mainstream in the next 10 years.
An EU committee has made a raft of recommendations about the future of AI.
“Data is the new oil,” Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich said last month.
The ‘companion robot’ keeps you company but is far from smart.
The opportunity is part of a new exhibition at Dublin’s Science Gallery.
And that’s the good scenario.
These two-legged robots are the latest creation from one of Google’s robotics labs in Japan.
Even when it’s controlled by a human, they’re still not keen on them.
Smacking boxes out of its hands, and pushing it face-first onto the ground are par for the course when testing a robot.
Recognising objects and figuring out if you’re happy or not will soon be the norm, and companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft are pushing it forward.
It’s to help The New Yorker sift through entries for its caption competition, but there’s a bigger reason behind it.
Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak are all on board.
Many of the devices that power our everyday lives would have been unimaginable a century ago.
Is yours one of them?
In the future, hiding behind a small wall isn’t going to help you.
‘Spot’, the latest four-legged robot from Google-owned Boston Dynamics, is able to regain its balance after being kicked or shoved.
The company has deployed more than 15,000 wheeled robots to travel around its biggest warehouses and help deliver goods to employees.
The aim is to develop a chip that will allow machines to one day think like humans.
The Robo Brain system will allow robots to use the internet to learn about objects and how they’re used, along with human language and behaviour.
It’s all over people, we don’t have a prayer.
“What are people for in a world that does not need their labour, and where only a minority are needed to guide the ‘bot-based economy?’”
And why are scientists afraid to talk about it?
Everyone’s talking about Garth Brooks, the cabinet reshuffle and Google smartphones for robots…
The Project Tango devices would allow the robots to sense sharp angles inside the space station and create a 3D map that would allow them to navigate the space station.