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Breakthrough bionic hand restores amputee’s sense of touch
For the first time ever, an amputee has been able to feel the real-time sense of touch with an artificial hand, thanks to a new system that transfers signals directly to the person's brain. Dennis Aabo Sørensen, who lost his … Continue reading →
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Dyson wants to build domestic robots that 'see and think' like we do
Is Dyson readying its own take on the autonomous Roomba vacuum cleaner? The British appliance company has invested £5 million pounds (about $8.2 million dollars) in a new robotic vision laboratory...
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Termites inspire robot builders
US scientists have developed small robots that behave much like termites.
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The Dawn of the Age of Artificial Intelligence
The advances we’ve seen in the past few years—cars that drive themselves, useful humanoid robots, speech recognition and synthesis systems, 3D printers, Jeopardy!-champion computers—are not the crowning achievements of the computer era. They’re the warm-up acts. As we move deeper into the second machine age we’ll see more and more such wonders, and they’ll become more and more impressive.
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Amazing Muscle Made of Fishing Line
Strange but true: Materials Scientists have found a way to turn fishing line and everyday thread into really impressive artificial muscles 100x stronger than a humans.
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Liquid Machines Promise New Era of Soft Robots
In the science-fiction classic, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, the T-1000 is a robotic assassin with a liquid metal endoskeleton that can…
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Are the robots about to rise? Google's new director of engineering thinks so…
Ray Kurzweil popularised the 'singularity' concept, when artificial intelligence overtakes human thinking. Now he is trying to make it a reality for Google. Carole Cadwalladr meets him
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What's Google Worried About?
No doubt, the news was meant to be reassuring. While Google may be buying up military robots and powerful artificial intelligence (AI) software, you can rest assured that the company will stay true to its corporate motto to not "be evil." Why, they even have the ethics board to prove it.
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Robots will be smarter than us all by 2029, warns AI expert Ray Kurzweil
By 2029, computers will be able to understand our language, learn from experience and outsmart even the most intelligent humans, according to Google’s director of engineering Ray Kurzweil.
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Engineers develop "e-whiskers" that could give robots the ability to "see" and "feel" their environment
Many animals use whiskers to help sense their environment. The extremely sensitive tactile hairs can give information about the weather and can help the animal navigate its surroundings in low visibility. Now, scientists have revealed a prototype for electronic whiskers which could be widely used for human-machine interfaces and with next-generation robots, among many uses.
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Flappy Bird Beating Robot
Just when you thought that Flappy Bird had gone the way of the dodo, a Chinese duo brings it back. Liu Yang and Shi Xuekun are working on a Flappy Bird beating robot and posting their progress on their blog.
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Chris Austin explains how robots could soon replace animals in toxicology testing
A new method for toxicity testing - employing robots - could one day make the need for lab animals obsolete.
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Here's why the Europa mission is real, and could very well happen
How is this possible? Especially in a time of very tight budgets? After all any credible mission to fly a large robotic mission to Europa, land and possibly penetrate the ice to see if life is indeed there would be incredibly expensive. And NASA has said it can afford no more Flagship-class science missions.
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AI Could Kill Us All: Meet the Man Taking the Threat Seriously
Thinking about the end of the world is something that most people try to avoid; for others, it's a profession.
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NASA will send a robot to investigate suspected life on Europa
NASA administrator Charles Bolden said this week that the space agency's 2015 proposed budget includes funding for a robotic mission to Europa. Green noted that NASA hopes to launch the first of a series of robotic missions to Europa in the mid 2020s.
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This robot arm will kick your ass in table tennis.
In a few years time this thing will be perfected to beat even the world's best ping pong or table tennis players. Oh and did I mention it's completely DIY?
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Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years
The human race is on the brink of momentous and dire change. It is a change that potentially smashes our institutions and warps our society beyond recognition. It is also a change to which almost no one is paying attention. I'm talking about the coming obsolescence of the gun-wielding human infantryman as a weapon of...
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Why the Rise of the Robot Workforce Is a Good Thing
A hot topic at this year's South by Southwest tech conference: Will robots take over the workforce? And if—or when—they do, what jobs will be left for us humans?
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This is what robot strippers look like
The robot apocalypse may just start in a strip club. At the CeBIT expo in Hanover, German software developer Tobit put together a booth that features two pole dancing robots, egged on by a fellow robot DJ with a megaphone for a head. The two ladybots move and twist in time to the music, though the actual performance is surprisingly tame.
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Quadruped Robot Shows Off More Moves
HyQ, a quadruped robot created by the Italian Institute of Technology, already knew how to walk, trot, and kick. Last year, it learned how to quickly react to avoid falls when stepping on an obstacle. Now HyQ is back with even more tricks.
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