Cadbury Nigeria Plc, a subsidiary of Mondelez International, has unveiled outstanding participants of the yearly Tech Boot Camp since inception at a media parley held in Lagos last week.

The Senate has indicated that the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has established a centre for artificial intelligence and robotics to combat crime and criminality in Nigeria.

Robots are machines that have just one function- collect information and process the information. Their will, if they had any, is to do their users every whim. Have you ever heard of a robot carrying out a personal mission? Well, probably in sci-fi films where Arnold Schwarzenegger plays “The TERMINATOR” but certainly not in real…

Two robots are set to make their pole dancing debut today at the Strip Club Café in Nantes. As technology advances with each passing day, one question that comes to mind is, would machines or robots replace humans? Robots have found home in virtually every sector, especially in the manufacturing and industrial sectors. But would…

Workers under the aegis of the National Union of Food Beverage and Tobacco Employees (NUFBTE), have continued to lament the use of robots in factories, expressing fear that it is now taking over their jobs. They expressed worry that the situation has become a huge challenge for the union, as it has cost them to…

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has raised concern over the growing threat posed to humans by the deployment of robots and artificial intelligence in work places. Osinbajo stated this at the Closing Ceremony of the 50th Anniversary Celebrations and Annual Conference of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) on Friday in Abuja. The vice president…

Robots that can diagnose diseases, play badminton and wow audiences with their musical skills are among the machines China hopes could revolutionise its economy, with visitors to a Beijing exhibition offered a glimpse of an automated future. The popular stars of this year's World Robot Conference, which ends Sunday, were undoubtedly the small, amateur-made "battle…

Along a quiet residential street on the outer edges of Beijing, a yellow and black cube about the size of a small washing machine trundles leisurely to its destination. This "little yellow horse" is an autonomous delivery robot, ferrying daily essentials like drinks, fruit and snacks from the local store to the residents of the…

For instance, JP Morgan’s Contract Intelligence, or COIN, programme, which runs on a machine learning system, helped the bank shorten the time it takes to review loan documents and decrease the number of loan-servicing mistakes.

Although technology has long affected the labor force, recent advances in artificial intelligence and robotics are heightening concerns about automation replacing a growing number of occupations, including highly skilled or "knowledge-based" jobs.

As demand surges, Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the nation's robot makers to take a larger chunk of the domestic market, currently dominated by foreign players.