Robots
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From Amazon Echo to Oculus Touch: the best tech of 2016In a bad year for many things, technology actually had a good time - but what are the products and services really worth buying?
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People’s productivity and finding our place in an automated futureLetters: While you can always mothball an underperforming factory, at a national level you can’t just mothball a workforce. Even Henry Ford knew he needed paying customers to buy his cars
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Genevieve Bell: ‘Humanity’s greatest fear is about being irrelevant’The Australian anthropologist explains why being scared about AI and big data has more to do with our fear of each other than killer robots
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The robot suit providing hope of a walking cureClothing that can help people learn how to walk again after a stroke is the brainchild of a Harvard team reinventing the way we use robot technology
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Brave new world: implantables, the future of healthcare and the risk to privacyImplantable medical technology and the data it collects will revolutionise the healthcare industry – but will we get round the privacy and the ‘ick’ factors?
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I worked in local government – show me a robot that could do my job betterSome public sector jobs seem like they can be automated, but they need the personal touch. Which robot would know the names of everyone’s children?
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Werner Herzog: 'My fake selves have some unifying sensory organ'The film director has hypnotised his casts and trailed grizzly bears. Now he’s plunging into cyberspace. He talks about growing up in remote Bavaria, internet evil – and what he thinks about Twerzogs and Wernerbots
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Dives aplenty as American robots beat Australians at RoboCup football challengeGame turns out to be not quite as seamless as human football – with the ability to remain upright proving the participants’ main challenge
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Robot vs football: automatons struggle to perform on the pitch – videoAmerican and Australian robots battle it out in the final football match of the RoboCup Challenge in Beijing.
Southern rail dispute reflects workers’ growing fears about rise of automation