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Archax is a $2.7 million pilotable robot for the ultra-wealthy
Japanese startup Tsubame has 5 units up for preorder.
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Robots plus generative AI: Everything you need to know when they work as one
We've had robots for decades, and in the next five years, autonomous robots will make real-time decisions in dynamic environments. Here's what can we expect from what AI and robots can do together.
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9 Percent of People Would Have Sex With a Robot (And 42 Percent of Them Would Consider It Cheating)
Robots are getting better at everything. Including sex.
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The Dextrus Robotic Hand Wants To Make Advanced Prosthetics 100X Cheaper Via 3D Printing
The Dextrus hand is the working prototype resulting from Joel Gibbard's Open Hand Project, an open source hardware initiative that aims to lower the cost of robotic prosthetics dramatically. Dextrus is a fully-functional robotic hand, with features and capabilities similar to leading advanced..
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Researchers Develop Super-Strong Robot Muscle
National University of Singapore’s (NUS) engineers have created efficient artificial muscles that could one day carry 80 times their own weight and extend to five times their original length when carrying the load.
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Robot snakes may one day explore Mars
Mars is essentially one big desert, and what do you tend to find in deserts? Snakes. There’s a reason for this, so the European Space Agency-funded SERPEX project is conducting a feasibility study on how robot snakes could one day be used to explore the Red Planet.
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This astounding video just took projection-mapping to the next level
This is what you get when you combine robotics, the projection-mapping of 3D computer graphics, and an actor all working together in perfect synchronization. It's a five-minute short film called "The Box" — and it's nothing short of revolutionary.
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How Human Do We Want Our Robots To Look?
Let's say you're getting a robot butler. (Congratulations on your purchase, future-dweller!) You can choose between three models for your new Jetsons-style Rosie robot: a clearly robotic machine, maybe even a cutesy one, like Wall-E; a more humanoid, personish 'bot, like the android from Metropolis; or a robot that looks just like a real human being. Which do you pick?
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Introducing the WildCat robot
WildCat is a four-legged robot being developed to run fast on all types of terrain. So far WildCat has run at about 16 mph on flat terrain using bounding and galloping gaits. The video shows WildCat's best performance so far. WildCat is being developed by Boston Dynamics with funding from DARPA's M3 program.
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JEROS jellyfish elimination robot can pulverize 400kg of jellyfish an hour
In certain areas of the world jellyfish are becoming a major problem. Not only can they be deadly if touched by us humans, when they swarm they can cause serious issues where sea water is used for cooling. For example, the Oskarshamn nuclear plant in Sweden had to shut down last week because cooling pipes were clogged with jellyfish.
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Self-assembling Robots Could One Day Combine to Build Furniture, Bridges
Researchers have created small, self-assembling robots capable of leaping through the air, rolling across the ground and climbing over one another. Called M-Blocks, the robots are cubes with no moving parts. Instead, they contain flywheels capable of reaching speeds of 20,000 revolutions per minute. When stopped, an angular momentum is created. The faces and edges of the cubes, meanwhile, are equipped magnets.
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How robot movie cameras made the film “Gravity” possible
Jeff Linnell had wondered for years why no one had repurposed industrial robots—the sort of giant, powerful arms that assemble cars on factory floors—as programmable tripods for movie cameras, reports Ciara Byrne. So in 2008 the owner of a small advertising firm bought three used industrial robots, and within a week one was used to shoot a TV commercial for Louis Vuitton.
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Double Robot Wants to Take Over the Office, Not the World
“Aiiee!” I heard one woman scream as I silently cruised around the office, rolling up to coworkers, darting between aisles and popping into meetings. “What is that?” she said as she stared back at my rail-thin body and flat, shiny head. It’s a Double Robotics telepresence robot," I said, smiling, and then turned in place and sped off to startle someone else.
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10 Coolest Robots and Androids of All Time
According to experts, if the robots take the realistic edge and become more human oriented, the people will hate them more. With the technology pacing up, it will soon be evident that the thin line between the working of human and a robot will also disappear for good.
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'Bionic man' makes debut at Washington's Air and Space Museum
A first-ever walking, talking bionic man built entirely out of synthetic body parts made his Washington debut on Thursday.The robot with a human face unveiled at the Smithsonian's
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Killer Robots With Automatic Rifles Could Be on the Battlefield in 5 Years
Robots armed with automatic weapons, anti-tank missiles and even grenade launchers are marching, er, rolling ever closer to the battlefield now that they've shown they can actually hit what they're supposed to.
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How Close Are We to Building a Full-Fledged Cyborg?
The dream of the cyborg is coming true at an exhilarating rate. As humans gets better and better at making machines, we keep attaching those machines to our bodies to make ourselves better humans. It seems at times that the only question left is if we can put a human brain in a robotic frame. Actually, it's not a matter of if. It's a matter of when.
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Robots at Work and Play
Advancements in robotics are continually taking place in the fields of space exploration, health care, public safety, entertainment, defense, and more. These machines - some fully autonomous, some requiring human input - extend our grasp, enhance our capabilities, and travel as our surrogates to places too dangerous or difficult for us to go.
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ZENO R25 - First Affordable Advanced Social Robot
ZENO R25 is the 1st affordable advanced social robot in the world! His life-like abilities will change how humans & robots interact.
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This Robot Can Teach Programming to Your 5-Year-Old
Play-i launched a crowdfunding campaign on Monday. The company will make two robots, Bo and Yana, which can be used individually or together (both have Bluetooth 4.0). Along with an iPad app, kids as young as 5 years old can learn programming concepts while playing with the robots.
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