From Netflix recommendations to credit card fraud detection, artificial intelligence (AI) is already part of our daily lives. But as AI expands, where do we draw the line on how intimate we become with this new technology?

Within the traditional kids's e book "Charlotte's Internet," people are amazed by a gifted spider that may weave phrases into her net. Spider-inspired robots may additionally sometime amaze people by behaving as cell 3D printers that squirt liquid plastic as an alternative of spinning silk. The German know-how large Siemens has been creating robotic and synthetic intelligence applied sciences that might doubtlessly allow swarms of such spider-worker robots to work collectively in constructing plane and ships. The dream of cellular 3D printing arose from an annual Siemens competitors that asks firm researchers to suggest and vote on technological innovation tasks. The spider-worker robots proposed by the U.S. area of Siemens received the hearts and minds of the corporate's engineers and robotics researchers and formally kicked off in January 2014.