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The future of robotics is soft and squishy
Soft robotics is ready to enter the spotlight. These robots are built with soft materials like silicone and powered by the flow of fluids. This allows for unique kinds of movement, with the automatons often taking locomotive cues from the animal kingdom. As recently as 2010, when the video below was made, soft robots weren't...
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Lego robot crushes Rubik's Cube world record with superhuman speed
And you thought that Lego castle you built as a kid was impressive. Two engineers in England have set the world record for completing a Rubik's Cube with a robot made from the ubiquitous plastic...
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Lego robot & Android shatter Rubik's Cube world record in 3.25 seconds
The robot smashed the previous world record of 5.27 seconds, set in the fall of 2011 by its predecessor.
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This Scrabble-Playing Robot is a Sore Loser. Best Move: Hurling Insults at Opponents
Like many Scrabble players, Victor tends to blame bad luck when he loses. "Sometimes, I hate this game," says Victor, a Scrabble-playing robot created by students under the supervision of Reid Simmons, a robotics professor at Carnegie Mellon University here. Victor's secret is that he talks a better game than he plays. He is a champion trash talker. A typical put-down: "Since you're human, I guess you think that's a pretty good move."
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A Robot wrote and published the LA Times breaking news earthquake story
The Los Angeles Times was the first newspaper to publish a story about an earthquake on Monday - thanks to a robot writer. Journalist and programmer Ken Schwencke created an algorithm that automatically generates a short article when an earthquake occurs.
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Japan Builds Such Awesome Robots Because of Anime
Think of Japanese culture, and one thing might spring to mind above all: anime. And if you grew up in the West in the 80s or 90s, the kind of anime you envisage might very well centre on one particular genre, likely influenced by international collaborations like Transformers: robot anime.
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More Dreaded Chores Outsourced to Robots (They Do Windows)
THE dream: a robot servant to pick up around the house, do laundry, cook dinner and perhaps even go on errands. The reality: cadres of little devices, buzzing like bees as they clean dirt and debris from every imaginable two-dimensional surface. It’s 2014 and home robots don’t look a bit like Rosie, the all-purpose mechanical maid on “The Jetsons.” Even so, the appeal of outsourcing some of the most hated household chores to a machine has given rise to an array of tiny servants.
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Immigrants from the future
Robots offer a unique insight into what people want from technology. That makes their progress peculiarly fascinating, says Oliver Morton
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Mind-controlled robotic suit to debut at World Cup 2014
Paraplegic Brazilian will don exoskeleton to kick off tournament in first public display of possible wheelchair replacement
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FDA clears new version of Intuitive's da Vinci surgical robot
Intuitive Surgical Inc said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved for marketing an upgraded version of its flagship robotic surgical system, sending the company's shares up as much as 15 percent. The company said it launched the device, da Vinci Xi Surgical System, in the United States on Tuesday.
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One computer was taught by another to play Pac-man, what happened next will surprise you
Researchers in Washington State University’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science have developed a method to allow a computer to give advice and teach skills to another computer in a way that mimics how a real teacher and student might interact.
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Engineers unveil bionic kangaroo
If it looks like a kangaroo and hops like a Kangaroo, it could be a sophisticated German robot powered by electric drives and pneumatic pumps.
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Making Affordable Robotic Humanoids and Hands
Efforts to build robot hands and humanoids more cheaply could make them affordable enough for businesses and even homes.
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History and Approaches to Artificial Intelligence
Earlier I wrote an article about the responsibility of creating consciousness and raised a few ethical questions we need to answer before we hit the ON switch before creating Artificial Intelligence. But what are the approaches that we have taken in the past and are currently taking to create Artificial Intelligence or, if you rather, Consciousness? At the end of this post, I’ll give my opinions on how artificial intelligence might be achieved and a few philosophical thoughts.
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DNA nanobots deliver drugs in living cockroaches
A swarm of nanobots made of DNA can store molecules in their folds and deliver them to specific cells by performing complex calculations.
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Why this Kangaroo is a Breakthrough in Robotics
Capturing human movement in robotics is astonishing, but this development from Festo in Germany is better. They have introduced the bionic kangaroo.
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Your code can save us
Los Angeles – 2018. The earth’s surface is devastated by a merciless fight against the machines controlled by Skynet, the almighty and self-aware artificial intelligence program. You are John Connor, leader of the Resistance. Your goal: destroy Skynet. Your weapon: the code.
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This Concrete-Eating Robot Can Recycle An Entire Building On The Spot
Knocking down a concrete building usually takes brute force: Wrecking balls, huge excavators, or explosives rip apart walls while fire hoses spray water to keep the clouds of dust down. It’s an energy-intensive process, and after everything’s been torn apart, the concrete often ends up in a landfill or has to be trucked to a recycling facility. But a new concrete-erasing robot may eventually transform the messy business of demolition.
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M-Block Modular Robots Assemble Themselves: Science Fiction in the News
M-Block Modular Robots Assemble Themselves re: Abraham Merritt on 4/14/2014: Science Fiction in the News
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The Problem Isn't The Robots, It's Us
Richard Feynman was a legend in scientific circles. One of the preeminent physicists of the 20th century—even other top minds considered him a magician—he is almost as well known for his jokes and pranks as he is for his groundbreaking discoveries. When Feynman was a young scientist, Eugene Wigner compared him to Paul Dirac, a giant at the time renown for his autistic qualities, saying that “he’s a second Dirac, only human this time.”
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