Driverless cars, food computers, robotic reporters, wearables and more.
Raising the Bar: Life among the robots
Prof. Karl Dolb explores the new role humans are taking up in a world full of machines.
Photo: University of Auckland
On the road to driverless cars
A high-powered panel discusses the changes autonomous vehicles will make on our driving, our roads and our world in front of a Dunedin audience.
Photo: Public domain
The future of robots is soft
The future is soft. Soft robots, that is. And from a crawling caterpillar called Trevor and a wing-flapping dragonfly called Julie, Iain Anderson has his sight set on Mars – and beyond.
Photo: RNZ / Alison Ballance
Robots rebooting reporting?
We know about driverless cars, but are reporterless stories and podcasts just around the corner too? And what does a "true-blue Aussie" robot reading the news sound like? (Spoiler: not good)
Surgical Robots
Catherine Mohr was born in Dunedin, but grew up in the United States, where she is one of that country's leading engineers in the field of surgical robotics.
Photo: Supplied/IPENZ
Ethics and the rise of the robot
Robot prostitutes, robot soldiers, robot caregivers are all on the horizon, but what ethical issues do they present?
Photo: RNZ
The future of AI
30,000 visitors attended the world's largest robotics fair in Tokyo this year.
Photo: Peter Griffin
Where to with wearables?
The race is on to develop the next generation of wearable technologies that will make our lives better, easier and more productive... in theory, at least.
Photo: STRINGER / IMAGINECHINA
Meet the 'food computer'
A 'food computer' is a mini AI-powered hothouse which can produce nutritious crops that taste great.
Photo: (Open Agriculture Initiative, MIT Media Lab openag.mit.edu CC-BY-SA 4.0)
Kevin Kelly: 'Don't be afraid of AI'
To create a future we'd want to live in we need a picture in our heads that isn't dystopian, says the founding editor of Wired magazine Kevin Kelly.
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