Whose Intent Does the Robot Turn into Action?
A family wants to help one of its members. That person wants to do something for themselves and others. Henry’s story shows how a robot can connect those intentions.
Current Issue · November 2026
What Does Help Make Possible?
Issue 03 — from independence and work to the time we share.
Help finds its meaning in what it enables us to choose, do and share. Our November issue connects assistive robotics, privacy, work, clinical judgement and institutional accountability with repair, art and conversation.
Three places to begin
Who Runs the Delivery? — AI in Road Freight
From planning a load to confirming receipt, we follow AI into road freight and ask where it can make the day easier for dispatchers, drivers and warehouse staff.
Another Look: AI in Medical Imaging
AI helps create medical images, measure what they show and read them more closely. From teeth to the heart, we explore what that help offers clinicians and patients.
Issue Theme
A home robot: who sees, who remembers, who is in control?
The robot has cameras, microphones and sensors. Who has access to what it sees and hears?
Technology at work and in everyday life
Field
The Car Took Flight. What Did We Gain on the Ground?
The Tesla Roadster brings intriguing engineering and automotive theatre to a practical question: where do its new capabilities help?
Feedback: From Training Simulators to Robotic Prostheses
How simulation, touch and information about movement help people learn and act.
Robots on the Factory Floor: What Changes for People?
Buying a robot changes people’s work too. Through an imagined factory, we explore training, the division of tasks and who will preserve the knowledge when experienced workers leave.
The Robot Has a Job. How Much Work Did It Do?
From machines delivered to useful work: what the Worken proposal tells us about robotics coming of age
Digital Government: Whose Turn Is It to Act?
The application is in, but we do not know what is holding it up. A proposal for digital government in Serbia where citizens can see the next step, the deadline and the institution’s obligation.
Curiosities and signals
Sparks
A Robotic Suitcase Guides Blind and Low-Vision Travellers
AI Suitcase is being trialled as a guide through prepared spaces. The October pilot in Tokyo has ended; what would make this help a dependable part of a journey?
Bring Something Broken, Pull Up a Chair
Some have skills and equipment; others are keen to learn. From repairs to guitar and photography: an invitation to bring them together in our neighbourhood.
Five Minutes with a Painting
Someone’s time remains in the edge of a brushstroke, a spread of paint, a layer showing through. We pause over a detail and ask: what happened here?
A Bench for the First Hello
We can be surrounded by people and still feel alone. A bench with an invitation to talk gives a pause in the city another possibility: meeting someone.
Afterthought
Back Page
Fire 2.0: Language
Four colleagues, a power cut and a mammoth on the wall. A story about language, shared imagination and an AI that joins in when the lights come back on.