Twenty years ago mobile phones had huge aerials and drones were little more than science fiction. Yet, in another 20 years, robots could outnumber human beings, drones will deliver pizzas to our doors and doctors' appointments could be conducted by virtual reality, according to a new survey. Our clothes could also be permanently connected to the internet, flights into space could be routine and spare organs will be printed on demand. The survey, which was conducted by YouGov and surveyed 2,000 people, marks the start of London Technology Week 2016 The results identify healthcare as one of the key industries for change. Respondents predicted that they will no longer visit the doctor when they get ill but will instead consult their GP from home using virtual reality technology.

I feel more cheerful already. I'm often to be heard asking the man at Npower or the woman at an airline check-in whether they are robots, given their inability to say'Good morning!' – which, it turns out, does this real robot a disservice.

Japanese car firm Toyota has said it aims to deliver smart cars with artificial intelligence within the next five years. According to Gill Pratt, head of the Toyota Research Institute, the firm is looking to boost car safety by enabling vehicles to anticipate and avoid potential accident situations using AI. Toyota has said the institute will spend 1 billion ( 682 million) over the next five years, as competition to develop self-driving cars intensifies. Japanese car firm Toyota has said it aims to deliver smart cars with artificial intelligence within the next five years. Head of head of the Toyota Research Institute - the car maker's advanced research division - said the firm is looking to boost car safety by enabling vehicles to anticipate and avoid potential accidents using AI The Japanese car manufacturer announced last year it would invest 1 billion ( 682 million) over the next five years.

We are using intelligent machines for everything from self-driving cars to online searches. But how about leveraging artificial intelligence, or AI, to save lives? "A momentous change in health care is under way," says Suchi Saria, an associate professor in computational biology at Johns Hopkins, with startups harnessing the recent explosion of electronic health data to help doctors make critical decisions and extend care to patients between appointments. Here are five ways that machine learning is poised to bring new rigor to medicine. Developing pharmaceuticals can take decades.

To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in order to build a robot. That was the beginning of his exploration into how the real world and robotics could intersect. Since gaining his PhD in 2007, he's worked on robotic projects worldwide, served as a consultant for multinational companies including Apple, and wrote an Amazon bestseller on design thinking. As the current assistant professor in robotics, UX and design thinking at UAE University, Berengueres is responsible for the robotics and media lab. His team also advises local companies on the application of artificial intelligence (AI).

Tekstum provides real-time scientific analysis of the opinions and feelings that readers are expressing online. Using a state-of-the-art algorithm built with big data and artificial intelligence, the company promises to revolutionise how publishers market, and how customers search for and buy books, by synthesising, analysing and visualising readers' moment-to-moment emotions and experiences. Spanish founder and CEO Marc Santandreu worked for international publishing companies such as Author Solutions and Regió7. Lauren Romeo (PhD in Computational Linguistics) is the Lead Scientist, pioneering the Natural Language Processing research and development of the engine, while Juanjo Fernandez is the engineer responsible for the development of the software. Every year the number of new books in the market grows exponentially, generating huge amounts of data at ever-faster rates.

It's well known that we in the tech sector love our acronyms. We also like re-badging stuff.What was once ASP (application service provision) morphed into SaaS (software as a service) and then became part of the cloud computing eco-system. And so it is at the moment with AI (artificial intelligence). There have been a number of pronouncements recently, particularly from private practice firms, about their adoption of AI. But is the truth more weighted towards the "artificial" than the "intelligence"?

Apple -- The tech giant will not aid the GOP presidential convention, citing presumptive nominee Donald Trump's comments on immigrants, minorities, and women, according to Politico. Anthem, Cigna -- The 44 billion merger between the two firms has raised antitrust concerns with U.S. regulators, according to The Wall Street Journal. Both companies have scheduled meetings this week with top U.S. Department of Justice officials, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. Toyota Motor --The Japanese automaker is working on developing artificial-intelligence-based driving systems in five years, said Gil Pratt, the head of Toyota's advanced research division. Federal-Mogul -- Icahn Enterprises raised its offer to buy the manufacturing firm to 8 a share from a previous offer, made Friday, of 7 a share.

Trust greases the wheels of the sharing economy, paving the way for transactions to take place between total strangers. But figuring out who is trustworthy and who is not remains a sticky bottleneck for digital businesses wanting to scale faster. Meanwhile the consequences for customers when startups screw up these risk calculations can be very unpleasant indeed. The traditional route to assessing risk is to run a full background check on an individual -- a process that can be time consuming and expensive, given it can involve sending an actual person to an actual courthouses to parse actual paper records. Which is why, in recent years as sharing economy businesses have been gunning to scale up, other entrepreneurs have spotted an opportunity to step in to offer online services for verifying identity and screening for unsavory behavior, to try to steal a march on more established but slower paced background checkers.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display