Artificial intelligence and robotics

Breakneck speed of progress offers interdisciplinary opportunities but also continuing ethical and social concerns.

From handling deep-sea organisms to improving climate forecasting, the technology can be transformative.

By filtering across the disciplinary spectrum, the fields continue to hit new heights.

Solutions are emerging for unmanageable clinical workloads, but experts warn of ethical issues.

Behavioural data scientist Ganna Pogrebna believes the AI revolution is overlooking remote communities.

Invertebrates offer solutions to building microbots the size of a fly.

Movement to industry is raising concerns about the future researcher workforce and maintaining ethical expertise.

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Artificial intelligence in Hong Kong is being used for everything from identifying neurological disorders, to inspecting manufactured parts for defects.

A conversation with Elissa Strome, Executive Director of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy for the global research organization CIFAR

Miniature electrostatic actuators — based on the muscles of insects — are robust and compact, and can offer the smallest of robots great agility to work in tight spaces.

Artificial intelligence is bringing about a paradigm shift in the field of drug design.

The 'data enabling theory and applications' framework is helping to identify the types of data needed for problem solving with artificial intelligence.

Clever algorithms are allowing robots to navigate accurately and work safely in challenging environments, all the while displaying a smile across their screens.

The famous port city is now home to a HK$10-billion initiative called InnoHK- an effort to reinvent the city as an innovation and technology hub.

A team from Toyohashi University of Technology is helping manufacturers understand the physics that can transform ordinary plastics into shape-shifting robots.

Innovative researchers are coming up with cutting-edge solutions to the many technological challenges of speech recognition.

A company focused on nebulous and esoteric concepts, such as consciousness, is at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence in Japan.

An AI that is capable of translating brain signals into speech and actions could one day transform the lives of people with disabilities.

Technology that combines directed evolution with machine learning holds promise for optimizing potential drugs.

New AI technology is directing the path of drones to avoid the risks inherent in flying over people while transporting objects above cities.