Thomas Macaulay is a London-based freelance journalist specialising in AI, defence tech and European startups. He’s spent a decade covering technology and was recently managing editor at The Next Web. Outside of work, he enjoys playing chess (badly) and the guitar (even worse).
Organ by organ, AI avatars are bridging the uncanny valley
In 2018, Colossyan's Dominik Mate Kovacs called the gap between synthetic and real humans "an abyss." Today, Synthesia, D-ID, and Colossyan are building AI avatars that almost pass for humans
The path to AI robots in the home is being shaped in the warehouse
Multi-layered safety nets protect Agility, Locus, and Preferred robots in warehouses and offices. Homes — with unpredictable children and pets — are the final frontier
