Chris Middleton
Chris Middleton is former editor of Internet of Business, and now a key contributor to the title. He specialises in robotics, AI, the IoT, blockchain, and technology strategy. He is also former editor of Computing, Computer Business Review, and Professional Outsourcing, among others, and is a contributing editor to Diginomica, Computing, and Hack & Craft News. Over the years, he has also written for Computer Weekly, The Guardian, The Times, PC World, I-CIO, V3, The Inquirer, and Blockchain News, among many others. He is an acknowledged robotics expert who has appeared on BBC TV and radio, ITN, and Talk Radio, and is probably the only tech journalist in the UK to own a number of humanoid robots, which he hires out to events, exhibitions, universities, and schools. Chris has also chaired conferences on robotics, AI, IoT investment, digital marketing, blockchain, and space technologies, and has spoken at numerous other events.
Retail IoT: Why Vodafone’s digital fitting rooms are a good fit...
Chris Middleton reports on how the latest retail application of digital mirrors reflects a shift towards customer engagement and smart supply chains on the...
Crypto mining: Why IoT users should worry about NVIDIA’s stock price
Chris Middleton explains why gamblers' rush to stockpile GPUs to mine cryptocurrencies and run blockchains is creating distortions in the real world. At the...
South Korea most automated nation on earth, says report. The UK?...
South Korea trumps Japan and Germany in robotics, with the US also lagging behind in the top 10. Meanwhile, China is on the march....
VIDEO: Watch humanoid robots ski at 2018 Winter Olympics
(Video courtesy of Robert McGregor.)
Robots have been taking to the ski slopes at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea (see video).
Humanoid machines...
Analysis: Oracle says autonomy now, AI with everything by 2020
Oracle is automating and AI-enables its cloud platform. But is AI simply the new direct debit? Chris Middleton reports.
Oracle has announced that it is...
Perfect storm blows healthtech towards IoT cures
A perfect storm of societal changes and converging technologies is driving both innovation and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in the healthtech sector, says a...
Amazon takes on UPS and FedEx – and catches Theresa May’s...
Amazon's ambitions in the delivery sector finally reveal what Jeff Bezos has been building in plain sight: a global hyper-company. No wonder Theresa May...
Hancock’s half hour at Hermes: good, but not good enough
Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and (as the BBC satire W1A put it) “for some reason also Sport”, praised delivery...
Cuckoo! Google flies Nest into its hardware division
Google is to absorb smart devices vendor Nest into its internal hardware team, in a reversal of previous strategy.
Google's head of hardware, Rick Osterloh,...
Internet of Manufacturing three-day conference begins
Internet of Business is proud to say that our latest Internet of Manufacturing event kicked off in style today at the Westin Grand in Munich,...
Reuters’ AR & VR visions revealed
Augmented reality (AR) and new visual interfaces will have a major role to play in the IoT, says a new report from Reuters. So...