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Boston Dynamics a robotics focused company acquired by Google.
Boston Dynamics and its animal kingdom-themed machines bring significant cachet to Google’s robotic efforts.
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Mobile Remote Control Robot
Romo a new kind of robot which acts as like a pet of yours. This robot is quite a entertainer as...
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Forget about Amazon. Meet Google’s Robots.
Google bought the robotics company Boston Dynamics, bringing it one step closer to selling robots to eager companies.
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Robots of death, robots of love
A ban on smart robots on the battlefield might lay to rest our fear of Terminators, but our increasing use of robots is forcing us to ask difficult questions about the morality of technology.
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Scientists create Terminator-style muscle at 1,000 times human strength
American scientists have developed a robotic muscle 1,000 times more powerful than a human’s – using a revolutionary material that fluidly changes its properties.
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10 Robots With Dirty Jobs
These 10 robots with dirty jobs take on tasks that would make even Mike Rowe shudder.
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Terminator Intelligence: Are We There Yet?
Terminator Intelligence is never going to be a destructive intelligence; rather it's going to be an endowment to the human race. Are we there yet?
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A Guide To Spotting And Hiding From Drones
Consider it a rough Audubon guide to the mechanical fauna of battlefields. Created by Amsterdam-based designer Ruben Pater, the Drone Survival Guide is, on one side, a rough bird watcher's guide to the modern robot at war. The other side is a short section of printed survival tips, and the guides are available in Pashto, Dutch, German, Italian, Indonesian, Arabic, and English.
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The Top 8 Robot Stories Of 2013
Robots are coming. This much is certain. The robots we have now are just the first tiny soldiers in an army of automated creatures that are coming. Will the robots be friendly? Or will they enslave us--or simply eliminate us?
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Killer robots: If no one pulls the trigger, who's to blame?
Humanoid robots raise all sorts of ethical and legal questions.
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A Mind-Controlled Exoskeleton Will Kick Off the 2014 World Cup
It won't be a superstar football player who takes the first kick of 2014's Football World Cup in Brazil. Nope, instead, it will be a teenager, paralysed from the waist down, who will use the world's most advanced mind-controlled exoskeleton to get things underway.
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A real-life R2D2 for home entertainment and more
If the French team behind the robot can deliver on their promises, Keecker will please both audiophiles and internet of things junkies.
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How Mexico drug tunnels are built - and a closer look at the new robots that will patrol them
As border security has tightened, drug cartels have turned to tunneling beneath the ground to avoid detection. Nearly 170 tunnels have been found nationwide since 1990, most along the Arizona and California border with Mexico. The job of searching these networks can be dangerous, so the U.S. Border Patrol is unveiling its latest technology in the underground war — a wireless, camera-equipped robot that can do the job in a fraction of the time.
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Governments warned: Robots may take half our jobs in 20 years, so prepare for revolution
Nearly half of today’s jobs could be automated within the next two decades, according to one recent study, and no one seems to be prepared for what that will mean for society. The digital revolution, just as the industrial revolution before it, is increasing productivity but also transforming the workforce – putting workers out of some jobs and into others.
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Wireless Brain Implant Aims To Give Paralyzed Power Over Their Limbs
BrainGate, a program that pools research from several universities, is moving ever closer to giving paralyzed patients use of their limbs by using technology developed to drive computerized prosthetics to drive the paralyzed limbs.
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Crazy Robot Arms
Engineers at Raytheon-Sarcos in Salt Lake City demonstrated a unique set of tele-operated robotic arms attached to a modified Ditch Witch. With no training at all, one immediately meshes with the feelings and actions of the machine. It mirrored everything one does with their arms, wrists and shoulders.
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Should a robot decide when to kill?
By the time the sun rose on Friday, December 19th, the Homestead Miami race track had been taken over by robots. Some hung from racks, their humanoid feet dangling above the ground as roboticists wheeled them out of garages. One robot resembled a gorilla, while another looked like a spider; yet another could have been mistaken for a designer coffee table.
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Robots Are Coming for Our Poems
The robots are quickly and surely coming for our jobs, and we've comforted ourselves thus far with a palliative that goes something like this: They can't do our creative work. They won't do our journalism or make our art or write our poetry. Except that the startup Narrative Science has $6 million to execute its human-free reporting.
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Keecker Robot: Your Home Entertainment R2D2
The Keecker robot from Paris based company Keecker, is probably one gadget revealed at CES 2014 that could change home entertainment in a radical way. The Keecker is capable of projecting pictures and movies on any blank wall turning it into a screen but unlike your other entertainment devices that are fixed, the Keecker is capable of following you around the house like your own personal R2-D2.
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Man Gets First Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
Nine years ago, Dennis Aabo Sørensen, of Denmark, lost his left arm in a fireworks accident and had to have it amputated. Now, for the first time, a bionic hand has restored his ability to feel again.
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