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Photo caption1: Fardin Ahmed became hooked on robotics during his undergraduate studies at East West University. Photo: Noor-A-Alam
Panorama

Fardin makes intelligent humanoid robots. But he can’t find investors to help him grow

How is it like for a Bangladeshi young man to dream big? For Fardin Ahmed, a young robotics engineer, it entails carrying the humanoid intelligent robots he makes from store to store to find a...

An autonomous delivery vehicle by Meituan is displayed at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China July 8, 2021. Photo: Reuters
China

Pandemic pushes Chinese tech giants to roll out more courier robots

AI is expected to beat humans at pretty much everything in about 45 years. Illustration: Bloomberg
Pursuit

Future of AI: Will it take away our ‘human’ jobs or offer some more instead?

Maisha Binte Abdullah, contributor. Sketch: TBS
Thoughts

Will a robot with a heart have more empathy and compassion than a human?

PHOTO: ONURDONGEL BY GETTY IMAGES via IMF Blog
Global Economy

What pandemics mean for robots and inequality

A customer collects his groceries from Camello, an autonomous grocery delivery robot, in Singapore April 6, 2021. REUTERS/Edgar Su
Tech

Run out of milk? Robots on call for Singapore home deliveries

State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak. Photo: Courtesy
Tech

Website, application launched to enrich Bangla in ICT

Yandex robots start to deliver restaurant meals in central Moscow
World+Biz

Yandex robots start to deliver restaurant meals in central Moscow

Illustration: Collected
Interviews

Mental health in the workplace, saved by bots and apps?

Rethinking robots to enhance competitiveness
Thoughts

Rethinking robots to enhance competitiveness

Young engineers claim to have developed robot to handle COVID patients
Covid-19 in Bangladesh

Young engineers claim to have developed robot to handle COVID patients

FILE PHOTO: The aluminium cab of all-new 2015 F-150 pick-up truck moves down the robot assembly line at the Ford Rouge Center in Dearborn, Michigan, November 11, 2014. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo/File Photo
Global Economy

US companies cut back on installing robots in 2019

Photo: UNB
Tech

NASA to launch 'robot hotel' to International Space Station