A robot "waitress" delivers food to customers at a restaurant in Fuzhou, Fujian province. To seize upon the business opportunity, various domestic robot manufacturers, including Siasun, Uditech and Keenon, have become increasingly more engaged in research and development in the area of service robotics in recent years. Working in collaboration with domestic appliances manufacturer Beko, researchers from the University of …
Well, that didn’t take long. Just 158 seconds into Sunday’s opening match of the World Cup in Qatar, referee Daniele Orsato relied on soccer’s new semiautomated offside technology to nullify what otherwise would have been the fastest World Cup goal ever. Nothing demonstrated the cost of human officiating’s fallibility more than Diego Armando Maradona’s infamous “Hand of God” goal in …
