Would you trust a robot to take care of your grandma?
One of the driving forces of social, interactive robotics is the impending issue of labour shortage, which is projected as one of the major and inevitable consequence of the population ageing phenomenon. As previously discussed by Colin Lewis on the Robohub article, The world and
What can a smart home (and robot) do for you?
More people are now wearing smart watches, carrying smart phones, and now living in smart homes. The devices that we interact with in our everyday lives are just getting 'smarter'. Homes equipped with smart and automated devices such as thermostats
Home robots: more of an appliance than companion, says readers
Primary reasons for considering to purchase a robot for the home Why would you want to buy a robot for your home? When we asked our readers this question, the majority (75%) said that they'd want a robot "to help me with house
Home robots: appliance or companion?
With Jibo taking on the role of the top 5 most funded Indiegogo crowd-funding campaign, and Pepper expected to arrive at stores in Japan early 2015, it's not a secret that there's a lot of excitement about interactive, social robots determined to enter our homes. They
Results: Will autonomous cars create more jobs?
Will robots take away our jobs? Will we be better off with robots even if they do? Take a look and see this round-up of stats concerning the issue. One Forbes article published last year by Chunka Mui brought the
Will autonomous cars create more jobs?
One of the most popular questions when it comes to discussing robotics is the jobs question. Will robots create more jobs, or replace them? Recently, we've seen a lot of discussions on the topic of job and robots, including four videos that
Results: How do you feel about “Swarm of Autonomous Cars”?
The conventional cars that we drive today don't really talk to one another. Sure, some of them connect to your cellphones and mp3 players. But they don't form a communication network with neighbouring cars to figure out unbeknownst to you
Results: Should an autonomous car be able to drive around by itself?
For the past few months the Open Roboethics initiative and Robohub have explored the topic of autonomous cars in the form of biweekly polls. We were able to find out a lot of interesting facts about what our readers think. When