Next time you accidentally swallow a button or your favourite piece of lego, don’t worry; soon you would be able...
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As Professor of Cognitive Robotics at Imperial College, London, Murray Shanahan is an expert in artificial consciousness and global leader...
Dennis Outten of Project Daedalus flies a drone in Somerset House Drones are usually in the news in a negative...
New frameworks have been developed to design objects that ensure physiological and psychological well-being of astronauts in long duration flights....
With its frightening appearance and gargantuan size, this ocean-dwelling creature is so big that its head can be mistaken for...
Robin R. Murphy MIT Press Robots are becoming an integral part of managing global calamities as they can be sent...
Camel racing has been the Arabian Peninsula’s prided (and lucrative) pastime for thousands of years. It’s been called ‘the sport...
A group of scientists and engineers want to rebuild the world’s shattered coral reefs using “swarms” of intelligent robots. They...
This year marks the 100th anniversary of Alan Turing's birth and there are events happening across the UK to celebrate...
Watson plays Jeopardy! Horizon: The Hunt for AI BBC HD, 3 April 2012 As the stern grandfather of the BBC’s...
I’ll be the first to admit that I thought this was a tiny robot dance-off at first, but it’s actually...
It might be very obvious considering my past posts and - if you’ve ever met me - my constant ramblings...
Sure-footed Some lizards can walk on water, others can walk up walls. It's hard to tell from the photo whether...
Today I had the chance to go along to the preview of this year's Kinetica Art Fair. I really can't...
Primitive AI or just clever tricks? And what's the difference anyway? Sacha Thorpe and Elliot Black sit down with a...
Apologies, I do realise that the title of this blog kind of implies I wouldn't be mentioning tiny robots but...
As computers have become more developed and intricate they have been given responsibility for many tasks that people used to...
Ever since the Wright brothers achieved the first manned powered flight in 1903, we have been dreaming of our own...
In the second podcast for I, Science we talk all about Great Expectations. Listen in for the science of expectation,...
Being touched by a sexy nurse is one of the most common fantasies (not admitting anything personally here) – but...
A whistle stop tour of Mark Stevenson’s vision of the future, this book is a crash course in some of...
Question: What do mice, dogs, squirrel monkeys, tortoises, oyster toadfish, harvester ants, carpenter bees, turtles, humans, newts, chimpanzees and flour...
