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AI experts call for action against autonomous weapons
An international group of artificial intelligence and robotics experts have signed an open letter to the United Nations to halt the use of autonomous weapons they say threaten a ‘third revolution in...
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In search of a scale for human-robot interactions
Social robots look set to become increasingly ubiquitous – their potential touted in healthcare, education, aged care, customer service and retail. Trials are already underway in Australia, placing...
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Trinity engineers show off robotic carer
Robotics engineers from Trinity College Dublin have unveiled the first prototype robot designed to work in assisted care facilities and help the elderly and people living with disability in Ireland....
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers rethink AI
As autonomous and intelligent systems become more pervasive, it is essential the designers and developers behind them stop to consider the ethical considerations of what they are unleashing. That’s the...
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UNSW and Fuji Xerox begin long-term social robotics study
Despite the sci-fi inspired expectation that we will one day share our homes and workplaces with physical robots, there has been precious little real life research into human-machine interaction over...
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Killer robot boycott ends
A boycott of Korea’s Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) – led by Australian AI expert Toby Walsh – has been called off after the university’s president committed to not develop lethal...
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Scoil Ide team Kentucky-bound after Vex competition win
The team from Scoil Ide in Corbally, Co Limerick, has been named overall winner of the Dell Vex Robotics competition for 2018. The team will now go forward to the Vex World Competition in Kentucky. The...
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UL remote operated vehicle takes first official dive
Researchers from University of Limerick unveiled a €2 million remotely operarated vehicle (ROV) at the docks in Limerick city today. The Science Foundation Ireland-funded ROV Etain can operate in...
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‘We have to be the supervisors of robots’: HPE’s Dr Goh
Academics predict that half of our jobs will disappear soon thanks to the automation provided by technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. Which jobs will ultimately be replaced is...
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NUIG’s Prof Dympna Casey on robots in dementia care
Mario is a robot being used to help patients with dementia maintain a healthy standard of living while taking pressure off healthcare professionals and family. This week Niall Kitson talks to project...
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Deloitte reveals five biggest tech predictions for 2020
Deloitte has announced its technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) predictions for 2020. For 19 years, Deloitte has been providing an outlook on key trends in the TMT sectors. This year, the...
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Robots on the dole?
Robots are being used to do jobs humans can’t but what happens when the pandemic comes to an end? We get some input from LogoGrab CTO Allesdandro Prest. Also catch up on the news including Trump vs...
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Hyundai completes Boston Dynamics acquisition
Hyundai has completed its $1.1 billion acquisition of Boston Dynamics from SoftBank. The purchase, first announced in December 2020, will see Hyundai take an 80% controlling interest in the robotics...
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Universal Robots’ Mark Gray on Industry 4.0
Ireland’s most famous tech entrepreneurs receive a special St Patricks Day award from SFI, we hear surprising news about social media influencers, look at physical v digital music sales and discuss the...
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Amazon to introduce first fully autonomous robots across its warehouses
Amazon has announced the deployment of two new robots across its fulfilment centres, which the company says will work alongside human workers to lift, shift and sort packages with improved safety and...
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Gearing up with Robo Riots’ Peter Redmond
This week Robot Wars veteran Peter Redmond talks about how a career in aviation engineering became something quite different. Niall and Dusty also get excited about a new Kindle, reasonably enthused by...
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Google turns to sci-fi for input on ‘robot constitution’
Breakthroughs in robotics could have a significant impact on both work environments and broader industrial applications, making human-robot interaction more efficient and safer. However as robots are...
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At the drive-in with Ygraine Bright
This week Ygraine Bright from What A Scream joins Niall Kitson for a top 10 of evil robots and AIs in film. To never miss an episode of TechRadio subscribe, comment and rate us on iTunes, Soundcloud...
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Hyundai, Kia work on revolutionary autonomous indoor delivery services
Kia together with Hyundai is presenting the latest version of the DAL-e Delivery. The advanced delivery robot is an improved version of the robot introduced in December 2022 and has been further...
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Dublin robotics company aids decontamination efforts at UK hospitals
A Dublin-based robotics start-up has developed two decontamination robots for deployment in a UK hospital, with the mission of cleaning wards and operating theatres more efficiently. Thanks to a...
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Intel’s new computer can serve as the brains of robots
A compact computer called Euclid from Intel should make the development of robots much easier. Euclid looks much like the Kinect camera for Xbox consoles, but it’s a self-contained PC that can be the...
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Intel’s new Atom chips bring 4K video to VR headsets, robots
In 2009, Apple CEO Tim Cook memorably trashed Atom-based netbooks for being “junky” hardware that underperformed. Intel’s Atom chips have come a long way since, with the latest generation code-named...
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AI and robotics could replace 6% of US jobs by 2021
In just five years, intelligent systems and robots may have taken up to 6% of US jobs, according to a new report by Forrester Research. As artificial intelligence advances to better understand human...
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MIT working on autonomous boats for launch in 2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is collaborating with two Dutch universities to create a small fleet of self-driving boats that will first be tested in Amsterdam to ferry commuters and...
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Researchers make progress toward computer video recognition
Computers can already recognise you in an image, but can they see a video or real-world objects and tell exactly what’s going on? Researchers are trying to make computer video recognition a reality,...
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The laundry robot you’ve always wanted is coming next year
The world’s first laundry sorting and folding robot will go on sale in 2017, its manufacturer said on Tuesday at the Ceatec electronics show just outside of Tokyo. Laundroid is the size of a large...
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Pixels and droplets
On this week’s show Dusty learns all about ‘lab on a chip’ technology from Prof Jens Ducree; Google has a load of new toys to spring on us; and we look at Apple five years on from the death of Steve...
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CIO Folder: We need to talk… to our robots
If this then that, if that then this plus other things. Or whatever. As we all know, that’s how computing works. It’s all relentlessly logical. Programmers and coder dojo kids understand this. They are...
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NASA forges ahead with robotic space mechanic
NASA is having a robot spacecraft built that will be able to act as a space mechanic, servicing satellites in orbit. The space agency announced this week that it awarded a contract worth $127 million...
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I don’t like this Monday!
Statistically speaking, next Monday, 16 January is the most depressing day of the year. This is due primarily to it being far enough after the festive season for its memories to be fading, but also far...
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Australian entrepreneur unveils ‘brain-controlled’ telepresence robot
An off-the-shelf brain control interface is being used to power an Australian-developed telepresence robot that allows people with limited upper limb mobility to attend work or school remotely. Created...
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Slack’s Ali Rayl talks customer experience
This week Niall meets Slack director of customer experience Ali Rayl at the opening of the company’s new Dublin office. Back in the studio we discuss freedom for Chelsea Manning, why the EU is going...
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Robot rights debate happening a decade too soon
If you only see one episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation I recommend Season 2’s The Measure of a Man. The story breaks down as follows: a scientist asks permission to dismantle android crew member...
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AI and humans can coexist in new ‘hyperproductive’ organisations, says report
A joint report by Goldsmiths University and ‘cognitive science’ service provider IPSoft paints a rosy picture for the role artificial intelligence will play in boosting productivity within the...
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DARPA: We’re on cusp of merging human and machine
We are at the point where computers and machines are no longer going to be simply tools. Computers are becoming, literally, part of us. “There are a couple of very interesting things happening as we...
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Robots as bad as IoT devices for security vulnerabilities
An analysis of robots used in homes, businesses and industrial installations has revealed many of the same basic weaknesses that are common in IoT devices, raising questions about security implications...
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I, err, robot
There are scary prospects in technology, and then there is a new report from IOActive. We all know the story about technology outpacing human 1.0, particularly when it comes to something like moral...
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IOActive warns $91.5bn robotics industry is a huge opportunity for hackers
Worldwide robotics spending is set to reach more than $188 billion by 2020, but a report from security consultancy IOActive suggests that robots in business, industry, and in the home are being shipped...
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Limerick primary school students push on at Robo Sumo competition
Students from Our Lady Queen of Peace, Janesboro were crowned the 2017 Analog Devices Primary School Robotics Champions at the Analog Devices Primary School Robotics competition which took place in...
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Meta takes step toward humanoid robots
Meta Platforms is venturing into the field of AI-driven humanoid robots after making great strides in augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI). The company plans to invest heavily in...
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