A version of this article appeared in Campaign. This year’s 50th-anniversary Consumer Electronics Show was the biggest yet, and reprised some familiar themes. TVs were thinner and bigger. Cars were digital platforms and autonomous driving was almost here. Virtual reality was more realistic, with flying rigs and haptic shoes. Sustainability had some prominent examples, fromContinue reading “CES 2017: voice, automation and emotion”
Author Archives: Lorenzo Wood
Explosion of robots
I spoke on a BIMA panel about AI and robotics chaired by Peter Trainor, with Jonathan Seal, Devika Thapar and Chris Brauer. Peter asked me to do my set-up presentation about robots; this is a summary of what I said. My talk (slides with my voice-over) is below. All the presenters’ slides from the event are here. Update: I no longer work atContinue reading “Explosion of robots”