When we talk about robots, many people imagine metallic androids with a human appearance or giant machines on car assembly lines. But robotics has taken a huge turn in recent years: more and more robo...
The fridge that warns you the milk has run out. The thermostat that turns on the heating before you get home. The blind that goes up on its own at dawn. This is not science fiction: it is the Internet...
There is a technology that has been quietly slipping into our lives for years without us even noticing. It is in social media filters, in the maps that guide us as we walk, in video games and in the o...
Can you imagine being able to test how a bridge withstands an earthquake without moving a single stone? Or anticipating when a turbine in a wind farm is going to break down before it fails? That is no...
When you send a message to a friend in another country, a video to a relative on the other side of the ocean, or make a video call with someone on another continent, you imagine that everything travel...
Did you know that the most powerful computer on the planet does not fit in a room, but in a need for almost laboratory-level cold? We are talking about the quantum computer, a machine that promises to...
Imagine getting into your car, telling it where you want to go and never touching the wheel again. The vehicle accelerates, brakes, turns and dodges obstacles on its own. It is no longer science ficti...
There are towns where fibre optics will never arrive, mountains without coverage and ships lost in the middle of the ocean. For all of them, the cable is not an option. The solution is not buried unde...
Your face is already one of your most used passwords. Your phone’s camera turns on, looks at you for half a second and lets you in: without typing anything, without remembering anything. Facial ...
Imagine an armour that is not for war, but so that a person with difficulty walking can go for a stroll, or so that a worker can lift heavy loads without wrecking their back. That is a robotic exoskel...
You probably do it every day without thinking twice: you put on a series, press play and, in a couple of seconds, the music starts and the image appears. You neither download the whole episode nor wai...
Imagine turning on the television and seeing hundreds of small drones flying together, drawing the silhouette of an animal in the sky or forming giant letters. They don’t crash, they don’t...