Markets
Why ordinary investors struggle to buy into the robotics boom
Most of the companies building the robots of the future are still private, leaving ordinary investors with limited options such as Tesla, diversified industrial groups or new vehicles like RoboStrategy, a Nasdaq-listed fund whose shares trade at more than twice the value of its assets.
Culture news
Ok computer: Would you call a sculpture created by an AI robot art?
In Italy's Carrara marble quarries, a centuries-old craft is being transformed by artificial intelligence. Robots can now carve complex sculptures from blocks of stone, raising a fundamental question: if a machine does the carving, where does the art begin and the craft end?
Health news
Tiny ‘hairy’ robot could help treat blood clots and detect cancer
By coating the robot with antibodies, researchers collected rare cancer cells circulating in the bloodstream from samples taken from all 23 liver cancer patients tested, showing its potential for future cancer monitoring and diagnosis.
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