Robot learns to flip pancakes
This robot arm doesn’t have much to do with armed robots.. but the failed attempts are pretty funny. And it does show that robots can be taught to do pretty much anything people want to teach them to...
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Robot takes over control of human’s arm
In this experiment, a robot uses electrodes to control a blindfolded person’s arm and hand, guiding the arm so that they move the ball into position and drop the ball when it is over the net. This...
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Diego-san Robotic Child
In “Bladerunner,” the Replicants were so humanlike that you could not discern otherwise from their appearance. We still haven’t gotten to the point where robots can pass for human, but Diego-san shows...
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CESR study of robot uprising risk
“While many of us may think it unlikely that robots will take over Earth, the scientists at the center said that dismissing such possibilities would in itself be ‘dangerous’.” Read more
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“Language is the key to developing true robot intelligence”
Luc Steels, a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Brussels: “It’s pretty clear that without language, we would not be able to do the kinds of things that...
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Robot Apes to colonize the moon?
DFKI’s iStruct is an ape-like robot that was developed with funding from the German Aerospace Center (Photo: DLR) Charlie is part of the iStruct project, whose goal is to “develop a robotic system as...
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More robots join the fight against autism
As recently reported, it has been discovered that children with autism respond remarkably well to robots, while they may struggle with human interaction. In addition to the potentially confusing or...
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Maine: most of your top jobs could soon be done by robots, according to one...
CHINA STRINGER NETWORK | REUTERS NPR’s Money Team developed an online database of jobs which may soon be performed by robots, using data from an Oxford University report. “When matched up against the...
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Young kids abuse robots because they instinctively recognize them as their...
Ok so that’s just one theory. “Researchers set up a bit of a sting operation, placing a robot in a mall for two weeks, observing how people interacted with it. After children happened upon a humanoid...
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