In Japan, a severe shortage of low-skilled workers in the health industry means qualified doctors and surgeons often find themselves doing the work orderlies would do. But as the Japanese lead a global push to embrace AI, they're using robots in hospitals to perform the most menial of jobs.

Robots are taking up residence in all parts of our lives, from helping us vacuum to making our coffee to keeping us company in old age. And new research has revealed that Germans have a soft spot for the tech – they’d even be happy to go under the knife at the hands of a robot.

If your driverless car accidentally ran somebody over, who’s fault would it be? As tech takes on a growing body of human tasks, its moral compass is increasingly coming under scrutiny. Canvas8 sat down with technology ethicist Blay Whitby to find out if ethical tech is even possible.

People are nervous about emerging technologies, yet 63% of people don’t realise they already using AI every day. Canvas8 spoke with Alex Salkever, co-author of The Driver in the Driverless Car and VP of communications at Mozilla, to understand how we can rethink AI's presence in our lives.