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Creating the robots who will soon be caring for us

Edinburgh’s National Robotarium is pioneering innovative solutions for our health and social care

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David Forsyth
Jun 18, 2024
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Ask Ari in Paris. Pic: The National Robotarium

You may not have heard of a man called Claude Shannon, but to mathematicians, electrical engineers and computer scientists he’s the pioneering Father of the Information Age, whose early work on electronic circuitry heralded the digital age and machine learning.

And, although he died more than 20 years ago, he…

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