The study published in the journal Social Science and Medicine shows that when someone goes from unemployment to a paid job of 8 hours or less per week, their risk of mental problems is reduced by at least 30%: instead there is no evidence that a longer schedule provides greater mental well-being.
Ericsson patents a technology that makes the phone slippery as soon as it ends up in the hands of an attacker. An anti-theft device for smartphones!
A house in 12 square meters, ready to be folded up and moved elsewhere: urban nomads have a reference furniture
Artificial intelligence will eliminate a sea of human jobs, but new multidisciplinary professional figures will emerge. Here are 4 jobs that will be strong in the AI era
The US Department of Defense has started a contract of around 7 million euros with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPMC) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop a trauma care system that with the help of advanced sensors , robotics and artificial intelligence intervene on wounds instantly and automatically.
Quadruped robots already seen at work (think of those of the now well-known Boston Dynamics) can cost tens or hundreds of thousands of euros, while at a price of around €3000 (including manufacturing and shipping of the parts) it can be made "at home" a very respectable robot.
A robotic spacecraft the size of a house, equipped with 4 different rovers, just to carry on what is necessary: on subsequent trips, by 2024, the lander will bring with it the first "colonists".
Without straying too far in the forecasts, aided by data from ISTAT and the American Labor Statistics Office, here are the professional figures who will experience the greatest contraction over the next 5 years.
Someday soon a bipedal robot might knock on your door to deliver goods ordered online. Do not you believe it? See the status of the search.
At Harvard, cybernetic insects are being studied, robot #bees that could fly from flower to flower and, within ten years, be able to pollinate plants. Since bees and real insects are in short supply, robotic technology will help us. The depopulation of beehives has been underway for a few years now, and the phenomenon shows no signs of stopping. European and North American beekeepers lose up to 30% of their bees every year: among the many causes there is also a mite... Read more
The field of robotics is making giant strides, including educational robots, designed for children aged 3 to eight. In particular, today we present to you "#My robot friend", which speaks, moves, responds to external stimuli but above all increases the cognitive abilities of the little ones. It is an educational playmate created by the Lisciani Group which, one year after the success of Mio Phone® (the first parental control smartphone dedicated to little ones) revolutionizes the world of … Read more
All science fiction enthusiasts know the first law of robotics: a robot cannot harm a human being, ever. Said in Asimov's words: "a robot cannot harm a human being nor can it allow a human being to suffer harm due to its failure to intervene." This is in the novels. In reality, however, it seems that the first robot that can "consciously decide" to harm the man who... Read more
The self-driving car is certainly the future of the automotive sector; Intel also understood this, having recently purchased an Italian company to develop this project. Intel has in fact purchased Yogitech, as the Santa Clara (California) company itself announced on the official blog: “For years, Intel has been producing high-performance IoT systems that allow people and companies to make more informed decisions. Right now the industry is moving away from data automation towards a… Read more
Italy is not always at the rear of scientific and technological research, on the contrary. Today's news is the creation of the first flexible robot in the world, and it is an entirely Italian discovery. In fact, the first patent in the world has been registered for a flexible robot, with a shape that recalls that of a snake: as can be seen from the photo, these are two "intertwined" structures that make it up and which allow it to stretch and bend, avoiding precision every obstacle. The … Read more
The robots of the future will not have skin inspired by human skin, but decidedly better, more similar to that of an octopus. This special type of skin lights up and changes color if it is touched, it is elastic and can stretch up to 500%, it senses touch and pressure. Not bad for a robot. This is the first hi-tech skin inspired by the octopus, which could make the robots of the future camouflage. The skin of the future was described in the journal Science. This is the invention from… Read more
Mini drones, or drones that have the shape of an insect, are very particular robotic devices, as they manage to enter places inaccessible to humans, photographing what they see and therefore offering a real-time report of the situation. This is a sector in which science is investing a lot, and which is therefore becoming increasingly sophisticated. But how can insect drones see in low light? To give life to… Read more
Zac Vawter lost a leg in an accident 3 years ago and since then he has been through an ordeal looking for a prosthesis (he calls it a 'fake leg') which for him had satisfactory answers close to those of a real leg. So the thirty-one-year-old software engineer from Washington signed up in 2010 as a volunteer tester in a research program with the aim of creating a thought-guided bionic leg. The Rehabilitation Institute of the Medical Center… Read more
When over the last 5 years we reported news on DARPA's robotic arm (if you feel like it, the old site is available), we talked about advanced prototypes: today we can talk, with satisfaction, about clinical tests: it is the future. No later than two weeks ago, American health bodies approved the protocol that will allow volunteers to obtain the implant of a bionic arm: on the front line, once again, soldiers wounded in war. They will be the ones to experiment… Read more
It's not the first and it won't be the last. Scientists from the University of Groningen (Holland) and the Empa research center (Switzerland) have created a nanometric transport system equipped with four motor units (translation: a “namomachine”). It's electric, four nanometers long and every half turn of the wheels has to fill up... It works thanks to a scanning tunneling microscope positioned above it, which transmits a tiny electric charge that causes reversible structural changes in the wheels (translation: … Read more
In the days that mark the fall of the Berlusconi government and the Italian economic crisis (remember? we predicted it on the old site) I am as disheartened as all of you. The moment is difficult: we can only get out of it if all levels of our country change by looking to the future more than to the past. Some jobs will still survive in the future, let's be clear: but there is a whole series of jobs that don't exist today and which could be useful in the near future. Let's go with common sense: 60%... Read more
This robot is very skilled and can do many things that humans can do. What if robots like this replaced human workers?
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