Robotic cat servers implemented in University dining locations
The University of Edinburgh has implemented automated cat servers in two university dining locations. The servers, delivery robots called Bellabots, are placed in Pollock dining halls (JMCC) and the Edinburgh…
Robots, National Museum of Scotland
Museums are places where the past remains, just fragmented, in the present moment, and yet robotics discovers new limits about future possibilities and aspirations. It is blending the past, present…
The robot that discovered itself
AI (artificial intelligence) researchers have made an important step towards the development of an ‘intelligent’ robot. If this phrase conjures up dystopian images of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a cyborg, the…
The Rise of the Machines
Technology, as a replacement for labour, used to be something we could joke about. In 1968, Woody Allen joked that his father was made, “technologically unemployed by a tiny gadget…