Sacyr's Blog

Our colleague, Rafael Gómez de Parada, focuses and provides insight on a current debate, with arguments supported by many, but rejected by other experts.

Artificial intelligence promises to optimise construction processes, reduce costs and improve safety. But how far can robots, exoskeletons, autonomous excavators and sensors actually go in achieving this?

From surgical robots, present in countless operating rooms around the world, to nanorobots that perform biopsies or administer drugs to specific organs, medical robotics is advancing at breakneck pace. Technologies such as miniaturisation, artificial intelligence and 5G are now driving the automaton revolution in the field of health care and telemedicine.

The world's biggest annual event for showcasing innovations in consumer technology, the CES, puts us on the trail of the keys we need to consider in an increasingly uncertain landscape, from the prominence of digital health to the latest version of the domestic robot.

Xenobots are already a reality, in tiny biological machines made from the cells of a frog. Their plasticity and their ability to repair themselves make them promising tools for creating organs or even erecting buildings. They can also help us answer one of the great questions in science: What is life?