It may sound like something out of an episode of Black Mirror, but thanks to research being conducted at Harvard University, a future full of tiny robot bees could soon be(e) a reality.
As we say a fond farewell to our Robots exhibition and send our cyborgs up North to Newcastle, we take a look back on the things we’ve learnt over the last six months.
It seems as if robots are everywhere these days, so it was no surprise to hear that our autonomous chums are being sent into one of the most hostile and underexplored areas on the planet—the Larsen Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
There are just a few weeks left to catch our Robots exhibition before it goes off on tour, so we wanted to test how much attention you’ve been paying since it opened in October.
If you’ve used Apple’s Siri, Google Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa—or at least come across them—you may have already heard of the next supposed ‘big thing’ in artificial intelligence: chatbots.
You might think you’ve stumbled across a proposal for the fourth Austin Powers film, but this blog comes from Post-Doctoral Research Assistant Andrew West. Andrew puts lasers on robots and makes them boldly go where no robot has gone before…
Could robots provide support for humans as we age? We’ve asked an expert for the answer.
From big dogs and uncanny valleys, to cyborg babies and the ride of the Valkyries on Mars, our In Conversation event was a hugely enjoyable, free-flowing debate around the field of robotics.
By Michael Szollosy
Five reasons why you don’t need to fear the Robopocalypse (and two why you might…)
The question we’re most often asked when we talk to people about the future of robotics is, simply: ‘When will robots take over the world?’
Thousands of you have read our blog this year—here’s a reminder of some of the most popular posts.
When it comes to robotics, the future is not two-legged.
In this guest post, Tom Renn, Managing Director of Manchester Science Partnerships asks: how close are we to living in a robot world?