Private transportation outfit Uber may already be working on ditching its drivers in favour of self-driving cars, but the company is now looking even further into the future, ...
September 27, 2016 at 10:02 am by Ashley Allen
A Japanese theme park, Huis Ten Bosch have revealed that they plan to open a “robot kingdom” on site in July, which will include over 200 robot automatons which ...
April 26, 2016 at 12:20 pm by Alexander Neil
US fast food chain Wendy’s has admitted that, rather than maintain its current staffing levels at the new minimum wage rate, it will seek to replace staff with self-ordering ...
April 17, 2016 at 10:30 pm by Ashley Allen
It seems we shouldn’t worry about automation taking away jobs from us humans just yet, with one restaurant in Guangzhou, China being forced to “fire” its robotic staff ...
April 11, 2016 at 8:40 pm by Ashley Allen
Your Skype chats could just get a little bit smarter thanks to Microsoft’s new array of assistive helper-bots. These bots were on show at Build 2016, where Microsoft ...
March 31, 2016 at 6:00 pm by Alexander Neil
With robot dominating manufacturing processes, and estimates suggesting that automation could make up to half the world’s human population unemployed within 30 years, and ...
February 25, 2016 at 4:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Smart homes and general smart automation of all sorts of things is one of the wonderful things about the time we currently live in. All the things we (nerds and geeks) have ...
September 25, 2015 at 11:29 am by Bohs Hansen
Why open a hotel staffed almost exclusively by robots, with a Velociraptor behind the reception desk? Because Japan, of course. Henn na, or Weird Hotel in English, uses ...
July 17, 2015 at 2:00 am by Ashley Allen
Robots have become the lifeblood of many industries, their speed, accuracy and constant workflow outmatches their human rivals. Though taken away from the production line, ...
June 8, 2015 at 12:55 pm by Val Melius
We are approaching the age of automation, a time in which machines, robots, and software will dominate the labour market. But, unlike the industrial age, which brought with it ...
December 28, 2014 at 5:57 am by Ashley Allen
The BBC reports on the news that robots have taken up the positions of the waiters at a restaurant in China. The robots are presumably designed to replace human waiters and ...
December 13, 2014 at 9:41 pm by Ryan Simmons
By the end of 2015, McDonald’s hopes to introduce ‘Create Your Own Taste’ touchscreen ordering kiosks in 2,000 of its US restaurants. The touchscreen interface allows ...
December 10, 2014 at 4:12 am by Ashley Allen
In this post-industrial age, the world’s labour market has shifted from machinery making the jobs of people easier and more efficient to automated technology – ...
November 12, 2014 at 2:22 pm by Ashley Allen
Amazon has announced the ‘Amazon Echo‘ virtual assistant device in an attempt to get into the home automation market. The black tube-like device is designed to ...
November 10, 2014 at 5:20 pm by Ryan Simmons
Having home automation systems can be cool, you’ve likely got the basics in place already to have such a system, a smart phone, tablet computer, PC, smart TV, ...
July 28, 2013 at 1:24 pm by Peter Donnell
