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Hello, World! Meet 10 Made-In-Asia Robots

Here in tech-crazy Asia, robots occupy a special place in our hearts, homes and workplaces.

Caring Cyborgs

Robots may be good at following instructions, but could they also be our companions and caregivers?

HUBO To The Rescue

Grace Chua speaks to Professor Oh Jun Ho of KAIST to find out how DRC-HUBO beat 22 other robots to emerge the winner of the 2015 DARPA robotics challenge.

The AI Spring Is Coming

Hon Hsiao-Wuen, managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, is excited about AI and robots, and explains why you should be too.

How To Win The Nobel Prize Of Supercomputing

Winning the ACM Gordon Bell Prize in High Performance Computing requires a team effort, says Professor Fu Haohuan, a member of the 12-man team that won the competition in 2016.

Over the hundred years that they have been used, floating-point numbers have become so entrenched that replacing them would be like “boiling the ocean.” But Dr. John Gustafson believes he has done just that.

High Performance Healthcare

Thanks to all the data that is already available, the healthcare sector is ripe for a data-driven transformation. Here’s how supercomputers can make a difference.

When T Spells Trouble For Cancer

The world’s largest clinical trial of T-cells for cancer is being conducted by a Singapore-based biotech company, Tessa Therapeutics. Sim Shuzhen finds out more.

AI On Cloud Nine

The convergence of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is underway. Alibaba Cloud’s Dr. Min Wanli shares his insights on this revolution.

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