Technology

Village Roadshow backs anti-piracy tech

Village Roadshow is waging an ongoing war against piracy.

Village Roadshow and its co-executive chairman have jointly invested $1.5 million in Linius Technologies, a firm whose primary product makes digital video files easier to manipulate.

AR brings smart city of the future into focus

Dr Mowlam says AR is 'an amazing tool for taking ideas off the drawing board and dropping them into the real world'.

Local residents and potential investors can stand in Werribee's main street and view the revitalised city centre, while proposed buildings are still on the drawing board, thanks to the WynLens augmented reality project.

Humans key to improving therapeutic robotics

An ankle exoskeleton.

Mechanical and robotic exoskeletons hold considerable promise, both as aids to the disabled and machines to increase the lifting power of worked in heavy industry, but so far the reality has lagged considerably behind the dream.

Uber executives' fates uncertain

Travis Kalanick of Uber.

After a Sunday meeting that lasted more than six hours, a representative for Uber's board said directors approved several changes, without providing clarity on the fates of chief executive Travis Kalanick or his confidant and head of business, Emil Michael.

Baidu prepares China's autonomous car moonshot

A self-driving car guided by Project Apollo, on the test
track at CES Asia in Shanghai.

Chinese web giant Baidu has accelerated development of its Project Apollo autonomous car platform, planning to freely share it with the world as the self-driving car race steps up a gear.

Dubai's Robocop reports for duty

Robocop

A robotic policeman which can help identify wanted criminals and collect evidence has joined Dubai's police force and will patrol busy areas in the city, as part of a government programme aimed at replacing some human crime-fighters with machines.

Is China outsmarting the West in artificial intelligence?

Soren Schwertfeger, center, and his team of assistants work on an automated arm in Shanghai.

Soren Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany and seemed set to continue his work in Europe or the United States, where artificial intelligence was pioneered and established. Instead, he went to China.