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The world's first robot-run farm will harvest 30,000 heads of lettuce daily
It could represent the future of farming.
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The Jobs Most Likely to Be Taken Over by Robots In the Near Future
The World Economic Forum expects automation and robots will eliminate 5.1 million jobs within the next five years.
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The world's first robot-run farm will harvest 30,000 heads of lettuce daily
The Japanese lettuce production company Spread believes the farmers of the future will be robots. So much so that Spread is creating the world's first farm manned entirely by robots. Instead of relying on human farmers, the indoor Vegetable Factory will employ robots that can harvest 30,000 heads of lettuce every day. Don't expect a bunch of humanoid robots to roam the halls, however; the robots look more like conveyor belts with arms.
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We need to keep humans in the loop when robots fight wars
When it comes to weapons with artificial intelligence, there's an argument for keeping a human in charge of some of the action.
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Noted futurist predicts disease-fighting computers as small as blood cells in 25 years
A famed futurist who foresees a day when and human and artificial intelligence merge and nanobots battle disease spoke to CBC's Duncan McCue about what lies ahead.
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Robot Adjusts Stare, Makes Itself Less Creepy
Researchers instruct companion 'bots in the protocol of body language and nonverbal cues.
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Mechanical trees become power 'plants' when they sway in breeze
New tools for harvesting wind energy may soon look less like giant windmills and more like tiny leafless trees. A project at The Ohio State University is testing whether high-tech objects that look a bit like artificial trees can generate renewable power when they are shaken by the wind—or by the sway of a tall building, traffic on a bridge or even seismic activity. In a recent issue of the Journal of Sound and Vibration, researchers report that they've uncovered...
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Forget Fingerprints, Brainprints could be new Password
Using the brain imaging and a number of words and images, it will scan your brain to verify a person’s identity. The facial recognition system is a computer application capable of identifying or verifying a person from a digital image or a video frame from a video source. It is also a great technology but there are some problems, it requires high-end equipment, like a Good camera on your system. Whether or not it’s the wave of the future for consumer electronics, it’s now got competition.
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Wearable Translators: Making Life Easier With the Press of a Button
Language barriers while traveling the world may become a problem of the past with the advent of new technology. The latest craze in the tech world was recently unveiled at the 2016 Electronics Show: a wearable translator. The Japanese startup Logbar plans on releasing the portable translator called the “ili” this summer. The actual device looks like an Apple TV controller and is hung around your neck. With the press of a button, the device is allegedly capable of simultaneous translation.
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Watch this robot chameleon blend in with its surroundings
Just like some living chameleons this robotic reptile is able to change its colour to match its surroundings
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When Will Our Meat-Filled Diets Go Post-Animal?
The hamburger is a nearly complete reflection of America through the 20th century. Popularized by White Castle and McDonald's, burgers only became the cheap, fast food we know and love in concert with improvements in food preservation, mass production lines, long-distance freight, and agricultural yields. This efficiency led to excess: Red meat consumption rose through the mid-1900s until it was overtaken by America’s love affair with chicken over the last few decades.
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Scientists take a step closer to ETERNAL LIFE as they PRESERVE and REVIVE brain
In a step towards eternal life, researchers from 21st Century Medicine (21CM) managed to freeze the brain of a rabbit using a technique known as Aldehyde-stabilized cryopreservation (ASC). The team, led by recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Robert McIntyre, wrote in a press release: "Using a combination of ultrafast chemical fixation and cryogenic storage, it is the first demonstration that near perfect, long-term...
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The Surgeon Will Skype You Now
The surgeon, who has spent 15 minutes gently tearing through tissue, suddenly pauses to gesture ever-so-slightly with his tiny scissors. "Do you see what's on this side? That's nerves." He moves the instrument a few millimeters to the right. "And on this one? That's cancer." Ashutosh Tewari is the head of the urology department at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He is in the process of removing a patient's cancerous prostate, the walnut-sized...
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Uber CEO: History repeats itself when we resist transportation innovation
Travis Kalanick, founder and CEO of Uber, took the stage at TED 2016 to talk about the “future of human-driven transportation.” How can we use technology to cut traffic, congestion, and parking woes? Kalanick suggested that we have the technology; the problems lie in the current regulatory landscape. And Kalanick believes that history is on his side. There was “an Uber before there was Uber,” Kalanick said during his presentation today.
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Programming AI to Play an Impossible Game
How do you program an AI to play a game with more possible configurations than there are atoms in the universe? This week we're discussing how Google created an AI to play Go.
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Artificial intelligence needs your data, all of it
Today's concerns about giving up privacy will seem quaint in the coming years. A.I. will need everything, and we'll happily give it.
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Boston Dynamics presents the 'next generation' Atlas robot
Over the years we've watched in awe as Boston Dynamics has refined the design of its humanoid Atlas robot, and this new version is impressing us once again. Last year the Alphabet-owned group showed off a battery-powered version of the robot, and now the "next generation" model remains wireless, but is smaller. Matching my size at 5 feet 9 inches and about 180 pounds, it compares to a predecessor that was six...
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Scientists make significant anti-aging breakthrough
A breakthrough in understanding human skin cells offers a pathway for new anti-ageing treatments. For the first time, scientists at Newcastle University, UK, have identified that the activity of a key metabolic enzyme found in the batteries of human skin cells declines with age. A study, published online in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, has found that the activity of mitochondrial complex II significantly decreases in older skin.
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A world where everyone has a robot: why 2040 could blow your mind
In March 2001, futurist Ray Kurzweil published an essay arguing that humans found it hard to comprehend their own future. It was clear from history, he argued, that technological change is exponential — even though most of us are unable to see it — and that in a few decades, the world would be unrecognizably different. “We won’t experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century — it will be more like 20,000 years of progress...
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Here are the ways to be eco-friendly after you die
A human body can decompose in four to six weeks, bones, teeth and all. With enough moisture and nutrients to aid the process, we can go from one thing, a human, to an entirely different material—an entirely different scientific thing—in less time than most people allot between haircuts. But that’s not how it usually goes. Instead we do everything we can to make sure our dead bodies cling to their inert existence.