human and machine

Recent advancements in technology have enabled robots to work alongside humans. While this has introduced a new dynamic of teamwork, researchers from the Technical University of Berlin have discovered that humans might be prone to “social loafing” when working with robots.

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and tech company Meta have presented RoboAgent, an advanced artificial intelligence agent. Designed with the learning tendencies of infants in mind, RoboAgent is equipped with manipulation abilities that align with those of a 3-year-old child.

The qualities that make a knitted sweater comfortable and easy to wear are the same things that might allow robots to better interact with humans. RobotSweater, developed by a research team from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, is a machine-knitted textile “skin” that can sense contact and pressure.

As AI becomes increasingly realistic, our trust in those with whom we communicate may be compromised. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have examined how advanced AI systems impact our trust in the individuals we interact with.

Stanford and Google researchers have made a new breakthrough n artificial intelligence (AI) by creating “generative agents” that behave in a remarkably human-like way. These agents were programmed to have the ability to communicate with others and their environment, remember and recall information, reflect on observations, and form plans for each day. In essence, they were given the capacity to think and act like humans.

In recent years, the integration of robots into the workplace has become increasingly prevalent. Nadine Reißner, Senior UX Researcher at KUKA, believes that it is time to put the human into focus in the development of robot technologies. For this, one important part is to consider  the impact of human-robot interaction on the human. In a workshop at the European Robotics Forum she presents the consortium’s initial findings on this topic.

Worldwide smartphone shipments fell 17% year on year in Q4 2022. Full-year 2022 shipments declined by 11% to fewer than 1.2 billion, reflecting an extremely challenging year for all vendors. Apple reclaimed the top spot in Q4 and achieved its highest quarterly market share ever at 25%, despite facing shrinking demand and manufacturing issues in Zhengzhou.

NEURA Robotics has presented a range commercial cognitive robots family that can be used both in industry and as an intelligent Personal Assistant. Unlike conventional cobots, cognitive robots are meant to perceive their environment with all their senses, act autonomously based on AI, learn from experience, and can safely distinguish humans from other objects.

As data alone is unlikely to drive decisions, chief data and analytics officers (CDAOs) need to learn to design better decisions and make change in three ways, according to Gartner. The three ways are: improving the timing of decisions, accelerating decisions and connecting decisions. This means they need to work better with machines to achieve results.

Surpassing the biological limitations of the brain and using one’s mind to interact with and control external electronic devices may sound like the distant cyborg future, but it could come sooner than we think. Researchers warn of the potential social, ethical, and legal consequences of technologies interacting heavily with human brains.