CSIRO to launch 'sailing drones' to monitor Southern Ocean
A fleet of unmanned autonomous sailing drones will be launched from Hobart, to monitor the notoriously treacherous, Southern Ocean.
A fleet of unmanned autonomous sailing drones will be launched from Hobart, to monitor the notoriously treacherous, Southern Ocean.
We are being routinely bombarded with news that robots will take over the world. Consumers fear they will take away jobs, and businesses face the unprecedented task of strategising how to compete in a new world order, where artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are changing whole industries.
When robots are made to look more human-like, we become more empathetic towards them. Make them too realistic, however, and those positive feelings quickly turn to revulsion and spark similar reactions to those we would have to seeing a corpse.
As social robots become more commonplace, there has emerged a need to measure our interactions with them.
The government is backing research into the use of robots to identify bacteria in pig and chicken faeces on a massive scale.
Led by the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision – with additional backing from Queensland University of Technology and Advance Queensland – the roadmap’s organisers aim to emulate the success as similar initiatives in the US and Europe.
Earlier this week robotics and artificial intelligence experts signed an open letter calling on the United Nations to help prevent the “third revolution in warfare”: lethal autonomous weapons.
Amazon’s long-awaited arrival in Australia will create “hundreds” of new jobs, the company said today.
The University of Sydney has partnered with Chinese robotics company UBTECH to launch a research centre dedicated to artificial intelligence.
Engineers from UNSW and UTS are in Abu Dhabi, preparing to compete for the US$5 million prize pool of the inaugural Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Competition.
One of the great mythologies of Australian long distance truck driving — the image of the 24-hour non-stop driver, staying awake on amphetamines and sliding past load restrictions, speed limits and compulsory rest stops — is set to bite the dust, courtesy of the Internet of Things.
Andrew Haldane, the Bank of England's chief economist, said that jobs at risk from automation total about 80 million in the US and about 15 million in the UK.
In the race to get drones into the sky and zipping across cities delivering packages and snapping photos, cellular networks are quickly emerging as the preferred way of keeping them in touch with the ground.
China plans to limit exports of advanced drones and supercomputers for national security reasons.
Japanese researchers have developed an air-powered surgical assist robot that can change a camera view inside a patient's body with a mere nod by a surgeon.