May 2021

Many predictions were made decades ago about an era when robots and humans would co-exist. Today thanks to major advancements in Robotics and AI, robots come in many different shapes and sizes.  But the most intriguing ones are those which resemble humans. These humanoid robots have been growing in popularity in recent years.

History is a good predictor of the future. In the Eighteenth Century, the industrial revolution led to technological, socio-economic and cultural changes that eventually transformed not just our quality of life, but also our expectations from life. The early adopters of technological change have compounded their progress ever since, and the earliest industrialized nations continue to hold substantial wealth per capita.

The Rewired investment fund focuses on enabling the technologies of the AI revolution by investing across five verticals including machine learning, robotics, bionics, sensors, mapping and localisation. Backed by technology investors including Tej Kohli, we believe that AI has the potential to positively impact every segment of economic activity and to improve every aspect of human life. Here we reveal seven weird and wonderful applications of artificial intelligence, some successful, and some…not so much…

12 June 2007 marked a day in history that grow in significance in the coming decades. On that day a robot named ‘Adam’ ended the monopoly of humans over the discovery of scientific knowledge by identifying the function of a yeast gene. By searching through public databases, Adam generated hypotheses about the genetic codes for key enzymes that catalyse reactions in yeast called “Saccharomyces cerevisiae.”

One of the ways that artificial intelligence is transforming everyday life is through combination technologies that amalgamate innovations such as machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, image processing, natural language processing, speech recognition and more into brand new applications. The most active innovator and adopter of these ‘magic’ new combinations is the global healthcare sector.

Robots are everywhere — from robotic wearables, bionic hands and arms, companion robots, medical devices and even biomorphic drones that model the behaviour of bees. The fastest and most significant new innovations are taking place right now in three subsectors of the robotics sector which focus respectively on Robots, drones and medical robots.

The word ‘robot’ is a relative newcomer to the English language. It was the brainchild of Czech playwright Karel Čapek who introduced it in his 1920 hit play Rossum’s Universal Robots. The word is drawn from the old Slavic word, robota, which means “servitude” “forced labor” or “drudgery”. By contrast, the word ‘cobot’ is a very modern portmanteau of the words ‘cooperative’ and ‘robot’.

The future looks bright if you are a data analyst, a scientist, a robotics engineer, a business development professional or artificial intelligence or big data specialist. These are amongst the top twenty roles that are increasing in demand across all industries, according to the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report.

The Rewired investment fund focuses on enabling the new economy by investing in the next generation of smart robotics. Backed by technology investors including Tej Kohli, Rewired invests across five verticals including machine learning, robotics, bionics, sensors, mapping and localisation. Here we reveal six emerging trends that are shaping the robotics and automation industry during 2021.