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A Robot Valet Will Park Your Car at This German Airport
In Germany, high tech has come to airport parking. Last week, Düsseldorf airport introduced robot valets to take the hassle out of parking for travelers. Travelers can leave their cars at the arrival level of the ParkingPLUS structure. As they leave, they confirm on a touch-screen that no one is in the car. The robot valet, nicknamed "Ray," takes it from there.
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What you need to know about DARPA, the Pentagon's mad science division
There's a certain entity within the Pentagon that's quite (in)famous for developing terrifying robots, advanced weapons and futuristic tech. It's called the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or, as most people know it, DARPA: the Department of Defense's "mad science" division. While all the machines coming out of the agency make it seem like its sole purpose is to build a killer-robot army, DARPA has many, many other projects to speak of.
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Robots Are Invading the News Business, and It’s Great for Journalists
Earlier this week, one of my business-beat colleagues got assigned to recap the quarterly earnings of Alcoa, the giant metals company, for the Associated Press. The reporter’s story began: “Alcoa Inc. on Tuesday reported a second-quarter profit of $138 million, reversing a year-ago loss, and the results beat analysts' expectation.
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Scientists Are Afraid To Talk About The Robot Apocalypse, And That's A Problem
Working roboticists need to indulge the public in sci-fi scenarios. I thought it'd be a cool story to interview academics and robotics professionals about the popular notion of a robot takeover, but four big names in the area declined to talk to me. A fifth person with robo street cred told me on background that people in the community fear that publicly talking about these topics could hurt their credibility, and that they think the topic has already been explained well enough.
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Japan Wants 2020 Robot Olympics Alongside Human Olympics
"In 2020 I would like to gather all of the world's robots and aim to hold an Olympics where they compete in technical skills," said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last week.
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Robo-cars, Uber Will Save Us Billions, Keep Us From Crashing And Put An End To Waiting At The DMV
One of the great American rites of passage has been the teenager earning his or her driver’s license. Nearly everyone went through some version of a parent trying to teach them to operate the family car, the trepidation of taking the driving test and the subsequent few years, where statistically you were disturbing likely to kill yourself or someone else.
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Burger Robot Poised to Disrupt Fast Food Industry
I saw the future of work in a San Francisco garage two years ago. Or rather, I was in proximity to the future of work, but happened to be looking the other direction. At the time, I was visiting a space startup building satellites behind a carport. But just behind them—a robot was cooking up burgers. The inventors of the burger device? Momentum Machines, and they’re serious about fast food productivity.
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Robot butlers 'a gimmick', says hotel workers' union
A US hotel chain has been criticised over its plans to introduce robot butlers to its workforce. Starwood is currently trying out the machines with a view to using the butlers in 100 hotels across the world. The butler is able to bring guests items such as towels and toothbrushes, freeing human staff for other activities, the company said.
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Can a robot be too nice?
Smart machines need the right “personality” to work well—and experts are finding the best choice may not always be what we think we want
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Canada's Hitchhiking Robot Completed Its Trip Without Getting Murdered
On July 27, a brave robot named hitchBOT bid goodbye to its creators on the shoulder of a highway in Halifax, Nova Scotia. With limbs made from pool noodles, a beer-cooler body, and legs clad in Wellington rain boots, this adorable hodgepodge of a robot was ready to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. It raised its best hitchhiker’s thumb, and waited to be picked up by its first benefactor in its 6,000-kilometer road trip across Canada.
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Study: Humans Are Happier When We Have Robot Overlords
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have discovered that humans prefer increased autonomy for robots. And no, those researchers were not robots.
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Robots could murder us out of kindness, says futurist
Engineer Nell Watson worries that it won't be easy to teach powerful robots values.
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SoftBank to Sell Robot in U.S. Stores Within 12 Months
Billionaire Masayoshi Son will start selling his humanoid robots named “Pepper” at Sprint Corp. (S) stores in the U.S. by next summer, part of SoftBank Corp.’s push to take the technology beyond factory floors.
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Dyson invested more than $40M in this futuristic robot vacuum
We are inching closer to the spotless futuristic homes of The Jetsons, because today Dyson announced that it will introduce automated roving technology to its vacuum cleaners by releasing a self-guided vacuum robot.
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Dyson finally announces a robot vacuum cleaner
Dyson makes futuristic hand dryers, room fans, and vacuum cleaners. Except its vacuum cleaners haven’t been that futuristic for a while, neon styling and thoughtful design aside — the British company has so far avoided releasing a Roomba-style robot vacuum, saying that the technology just isn’t there to make a good product. All that changes today with the announcement of the Dyson 360 Eye, a robot vacuum that the company says took 16 years and close to $47 million to research and develop.
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New algorithm could help ‘cheetah’ robot outrun humans soon
This robot borrows its moves from the cheetah, and it's picking up speed.
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Samsung reveals robot sentry set to keep an eye on North Korea
South Korean forces have installed a team of robots along the border with North Korea. The machine-gun wielding robots, built by a subsidiary of Samsung, have heat and motion detectors to identify potential targets more than 2 miles away. The SGR-1 has a 5.5mm machine gun and a 40mm grenade launcher - although needs a human operator to give it the go ahead to fire.
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How to judge a ’bot; why it’s covered
WHEN the autonomous cars in Isaac Asimov's 1953 short story “Sally” encourage a robotic bus to dole out some rough justice to an unscrupulous businessman, the reader is to believe that the bus has contravened Asimov's first law of robotics, which states that “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm”.
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Robotic octopus can swim, crawl and carry stuff under water
Thanks to addition of octopus-like "web," the robot can now move faster than ever
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Robots really are coming for your job, and there's nothing you can do about it
Nicholas Carr: The US supreme court ruled that corporations are people. And now the corporations want to replace people with robots. Guess who wins
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