Emerging Technologies

South Korea's self-driving upstarts take on tech giants

The RideFlux start-up brings together engineers who have given up well-paid jobs with some of South Korea's most prestigious firms to try to build a ride-sharing company for the tech-savvy nation.

Q&A: Italian engineer eased coronavirus patients with 3D printed valves

The young engineer doesn't want to take any credit and instead considers frontline doctors as real heroes.

Toyota partners with China's Momenta on HD maps for autonomous cars

Maps are key to allowing autonomous vehicles to locate themselves.

A new milestone for using Crispr gene-editing against cancer

The highly anticipated results from the first phase of a clinical trial that were published in the journal Science show that the technique is non-toxic.

Uber eyes drones for food delivery, unveils new autonomous car

Uber says it has developed a proprietary airspace management system to will guide the drones to their location and that deliveries won't be made directly to customers, but to a safe drop-off location where an Uber Eats driver will complete the order.

Volvo unveils driverless electric bus in Singapore

High-tech Singapore has become a testbed for self-driving technology and the world's first driverless taxis went into operation in a limited public trial in the country in 2016.

Pope discusses ethics of artificial intelligence with Microsoft chief

The head of the global tech giant and the Roman Catholic leader, discuss "artificial intelligence at the service of the common good and activities aimed at bridging the digital divide that still persists at the global level," Vatican statement says.

A Game of Drones in Venezuela and Yemen

Commercial drones are increasingly being employed as a tool of political violence - will they be the new guerilla weapon of choice?

Autonomous weapons systems: Boys' toys or killer robots?

Weapons systems are far from having a mind of their own. But the debate around them has already begun.

Turkey to use unmanned land vehicles in Afrin

At least 20 unmanned land vehicles will be supplied to Turkish Armed Forces for Operation Olive Branch in northwestern Syria.

Russia implies US behind Syria drone attacks

Russia says it repelled 13 drones attacks and the data required for the series of attacks could only have been obtained ''from one of the countries that possesses know-how in satellite navigation."

UK to have driverless cars by 2021

The British government plans to invest $99 million to Artificial intelligent and put driverless cars on UK roads by 2021.