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This is what happens at a Robot Rodeo, Y’all!
It’s 10 a.m. on a Wednesday, and I’m watching a robot poke a forest camouflage backpack with a stick. Here on the southern edge of Albuquerque, N.M.,
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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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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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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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Meet Japan's robot comedy double act
A Japanese university team has invented a robot comedy duo
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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 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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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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The Only Thing Weirder Than a Telemarketing Robot
When a salesperson named Samantha West called a TIME reporter, she seemed like a computer. But with current technology, it might not be possible to build such a robot, raising a truly bizarre possibility.
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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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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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The Rich and Their Robots Are About to Make Half the World's Jobs Disappear
Two hugely important statistics concerning the future of employment as we know it made waves recently: 85 people alone command as much wealth as the poorest half of the world. 47 percent of the world's currently existing jobs are likely to be automated over the next two decades. Combined, those two stats portend a quickly-exacerbating dystopia
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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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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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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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Myth of the ‘real-life Robocop’
Reports that the ultimate crime enforcer may be on our streets soon is largely news hype. We’re more likely to see Robosnoop, not Robocop.
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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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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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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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