A former product manager for Reddit says his time there made the world a worse place, Boston Dynamics taught its robot parkour and privacy search engine DuckDuckGo grows. First, trending on Reddit: A
Published on: October 15th, 2018
Meagan Simpson
@megesimpson
The Ontario Centres of Excellence (OCE)'s 2018 Discovery Conference kicked off Monday with a rather unusual presentation. Sophia the Robot, manufactured by Hong Kong-based Hanson Robotics Ltd. and known for such media-friendly appearances
Published on: May 1st, 2018
Eric Emin Wood
@ericewood
The Tech in Sports crew explores all the major sports tech news from the last week including a hockey player paid exclusively in Bitcoin, a fan-controlled football league, the top mentioned Canadian athletes
Published on: December 21st, 2017
Mandy Kovacs
@MandyVKovacs
A woman who works 90 hours a week and used a 72-step checklist to find a husband through online dating. A man who was obsessed with the formation of celestial bodies and discovered
As technology continues to impact how work is done, there is an intriguing new speculation presented by a recent article in the Globe & Mail. It asks, “Could your next boss be a robot?”
Published on: April 29th, 2013
Marylka Empey
@MarylkaE
The automation of the car industry means robots and computers have taken over much of the work of building vehicles. Now, thanks to Nissan, they could soon be driving the vehicles for us
You might think Brian the robot is eerily human-like with his emoting face and vocal tone. But he's still a far cry from actually fooling anyone into thinking he is human.This robot might
Published on: September 7th, 2010
ITBusiness Staff
@itbusinessca
You have to assume that Dr. Goldie Nejat has never seen the Terminator movies nor was a fan of Battlestar Galactica, any of the other fictions depicting a dystopian future after the likes
See related story: Top reasons why teleworkers hate dealing with ISPs Normally, I like being an "insider" when it comes to the cable company. However, this time I'm sure I'm going to get
The research wing of Honda Motor has co-developed a brain machine interface (BMI) system that allows a person to control a robot through thought alone.The system, which was developed with the Japanese government-affiliated
Published on: March 31st, 2009
Martyn Williams
@itbusinessca
Jump to: video | doctor image | tool image Perry Newhook never expected his career as a robotics engineer would lead him to an operating room where open brain surgery was being performed.Yet
As Space Shuttle Endeavour rocketed into space at 2:28 a.m. ET on Tuesday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the offices of Brampton, Ont.-based MDA Ltd. were dark and quiet – despite their
While Canadian small and mid-sized manufacturers don't make much use of robotics, a European Union project may change all that.Dubbed SMErobot – the project aims at introducing prototype robots into the lower-scale manufacturing
