Komatsu unveils its 250 ton autonomous dump truck for strip mines
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF With no human driver this huge dump truck has no cab and never turns around. Autonomous vehicle technology is still in its infancy, which means that most self-driving vehicles still have a way for humans to take over when needed. But as Komatsu demonstrates...
Japanese company Spread set to open worlds first fully autonomous farm in 2017
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The only humans these Lettuces see will be the one who eats them. The Japanese lettuce production company Spread believes the farmers of the future will be robots – so much so that Spread is creating the world’s first farm manned entirely by robots. Instead of relying on...
This CGI school girl has you fooled
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As CGI, and the tools used to create it, get better it will be harder to distinguish what is real, and what is not. Slowly these “digital humans” will be able to replace real humans anywhere there is a screen involved, such as acting, avatars...
