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This Sensorless Flying Robot Is Like a Drunken Speeder Bike Orb
After putting its rovers on Mars, Nasa's Jet Propulsion Lab showed the world that billion dollar hardware isn't always the answer. And researchers at the EPFL are taking the same technology-on-the-cheap approach with a low-cost autonomous flying drone that simply bumps and crashes into everything in its path instead of relying on expensive sensors and software to avoid obstacles.
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How Robots Will Save Your Life When Disaster Strikes
Search-and-rescue operations are delicate, time-sensitive, and intense. That's why researchers are always looking for new ways to unload some of the dirty work onto robots: machines that will help rescuers get the to the bottom of the rubble—or the top of the mountain—faster and far more efficiently.
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Your pee could power future robots
There's a new use for artificial hearts, and it involves a more taboo bodily fluid than blood. A device that mimics the squeezing action of the human heart has been used to pump urine into a microbial fuel cell, which could power robots that convert the waste into electricity.
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This Robot Is Changing How We Cure Diseases
Every week at an NIH drug-testing lab, a robotics system performs millions of experiments faster and with greater precision than any human could. The simple goal: to find new treatments and cures.
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Robowar: The next generation of warfare revealed - a general’s dream, but are they also humanity’s nightmare?
Rather like a dog with a rubber bone, the Crusher likes to toy with its prey. After first sizing it up, it leaps, rolling and gripping its target until it is sufficiently chewed up and “dead”. Unlike a dog, the Crusher is capable of performing this feat on a line of parked cars.
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Robot Handjobs: The Future Is Coming
The Second Law of Robotics is: A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings. Over the weekend, a virtual sex simulator debuted in Japan, Kotaku reported. The "VR Tenga" is the product of a joint effort from adult toy company Tenga and virtual reality pioneer Oculus VR, the company behind an immersive virtual reality headset called the Oculus Rift.
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This 6-Foot, 330-Pound Robot May One Day Save Your Life
Meet Atlas, the Pentagon’s 6'2", 330-pound humanitarian robot. He was designed to save lives in disaster zones.
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Jellyfish drone stays airborne by furiously flapping 20 times a second
The flight techniques of insects have been inspiring the development of autonomous drones for years. And, while the ostrich briefly stepped into the fray with the advent of the OstrichCopter, it looks like jellyfish could be set to inspire a more stable form of flight.
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Is it OK to torture or murder a robot?
We form such strong emotional bonds with machines that people can’t be cruel to them even though they know they are not alive. So should robots have rights?
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Google Puts Money on Robots, Using the Man Behind Android
In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner.
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A Prosthetic Hand That Sends Feelings to Its Wearer
A new nerve interface can simulate a sense of touch from 20 spots on a prosthetic hand.
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Robot That Can Predict And Prevent Crime: Knightscope K5 - Geekswipe
K5 Robots can predict/prevent crimes in your neighborhood. It might also potentially turn into a threatening privacy killer when got into the wrong hands.
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Linux Likely to Run Google Robots and Amazon Drones | Linux.com
Linux, Android and open source Robot Operating System (ROS) are the most likely platforms for Google's and Amazon's forays into robotics.
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Our Final Invention: How the Human Race Goes and Gets Itself Killed
We worry about robots. Hardly a day goes by where we're not reminded about how robots are taking our jobs and hollowing out the middle class. The worry is so acute that economists are busy devising new social contracts to cope with a potentially enormous class of obsolete humans.
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Rock-paper-scissors robot wins every time
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a robot hand that has a 100% winning rate playing rock-paper-scissors
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Soldier moves bionic arm by thoughts
A soldier injured in battle said he is determined to make a success of his new life with a bionic arm he can control with his thoughts. Cpl Andrew Garthwaite, 26, from South Tyneside, was badly injured in Afghanistan when a Taliban grenade took off his right arm. He is believed to be the first person in the UK to have such a bionic arm.
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NASA unveils 6-foot 'superhero robot' Valkyrie
Designed to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge, this "female" robot could be the precursor to robo-astronauts that will help colonize Mars.
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Meet the Robot Telemarketer Who Denies She's A Robot
The phone call came from a charming woman with a bright, engaging voice to the cell phone of a TIME Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer. She wanted to offer a deal on health insurance, but something was fishy.
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How Bionics Will Transform Our Senses
Bionic tools are no longer restricted to the pages of science fiction literature. Real, amazing advances are being made and promise to transform the way humans experience the world. Trace runs down a list of some of the most exciting bionic inventions to date.
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How do you control a spermbot?
Tiny hybrid robots could shepherd individual sperm to eggs to help fertilization, or to deliver targeted doses of drugs...
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