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Tag: robots
One Japanese railway company build huge, humanoid robots to repair its power lines
I've never wanted to be a railway worker as much as I do right now.
New four-legged robots designed to work together to accomplish difficult tasks
Teamwork makes the dream work.
Scientists observe nanobots coordinating inside a living host for the first time
We're talking swarms of millions of bots here.
Researchers train robot swarm to serve as ‘real-life paintbrushes’
Can robots play a part in producing art? This team believes so.
Half of Twitter accounts discussing ‘reopening America’ are bots
Researchers have uncovered a sophisticated campaign orchestrated to sow discord.
Talkative robots make humans chat too — especially robots that show ‘vulnerability’
Robots admitting to making a mistake can improve communication between humans -- at least during games.
Flying ‘Robotic pigeon’ brings us closer to bird-like drones
Engineers created PigeonBot, adding pigeon feathers to a flying robot
The world’s first ‘living machines’ can move, carry loads, and repair themselves
They can move, carry loads, and repair themselves.
Autonomous killer drone aims to save the Great Barrier Reef
Can we please call these things Star Destroyers? Please?
The Twitter discussion around vapes is grand — and 70% filled with bots
Welcome to selling strategies, where ethics are made up and your health doesn't matter!
Biology can help patch the flaws in our robots, metastudy reports
Life to the rescue!
Endowing AI with confidence and doubt will make it more useful, paper argues
More like us, in other words.
Knowing for the sake of knowing: algorithm developed to hardwire curiosity into robots
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but cats don't run on microprocessors. I think.
Your robot always dropping stuff? Try these gecko-inspired pads
A gripping tale.
This robot works six times faster than humans — and it’s putting jobs at risk
The time where we could speak about 'robots taking our jobs' at the future tense has passed.
First deep-sea mining operation scheduled to start in 2019 — here are the bots that will do it
Whether you agree to the idea or not, the bots sure are awesome.
Emotional computers really freak people out — a new take on the uncanny valley
Be like us, but not us.
Check the wheels on that thing: Boston Dynamics’ latest robot overlord
One award-winning company is back in style with another crazy robot.
Even bots have arguments. Some Wikipedia bots can undo each other for years before settling an edit
An important incursion into bot sociology.
Chinese factory replaces 90% of human workers with robots. Production rises by 250%, defects drop by 80%
After a factory in Dongguan, China, replaced most of its workers with robots, it witnessed a spectacular rise in productivity.
New robot picks peppers like a human
Robots are getting smarter and smarter.
NASA plans to build robots that explore frozen worlds from metallic glass so they don’t shatter
"Cold enough to shatter robots" is pretty cold in my book.
Meet Sawyer, the friendly robot that wants to disrupt manufacturing and education
Sawyer can do just about anything, even 'wink'.
Robotic surveillance without enforcement isn’t enough to stop people from stealing, a new study found
To be fair, students will do insane things for food.
The army’s amazing 1962 four-legged Pedipulator beat Star Wars to it by 15 years
The '60s were very creative.
Scientists create light-activated stingray robot composed of rat cells
A stingray created from living rat cells blurs the line between technology and nature.
Six cockroach-sized micro robots tow a 3,900-Pound Car
Inspired by ants, researchers mimicked the insects' individual super strength and collective hive mind in tiny robots. Each weighs only ...
How robots are transforming healthcare
The world of robotics is extremely exciting. Everyday we come closer to building R2-D2, Terminators, and the Iron Giant. The ...
The star(fish) destroying robot is yellow and deadly
Picture this: A city under siege. Many of the outlying buildings are old, dry, lifeless shells of their former beauty ...
RoboHow: the Wikipedia that teaches robots how to cook
An European initiative founded in 2012, dubbed RoboHow, comes to take up the challenge of improving the way robots work ...
University of California 3D printed fish are the most advanced microbots we built to date
Nanoengineers from the San Diego University of California used innovative, self-developed 3D printing methods to create multipurpose, fish-shaped microbots - ...
MIT tackling more serious science: they program beer-delivering robots
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is on the brink of revolutionizing relaxation with their ...
Suidobashi Heavy Industries accepts US’s Megabot Inc challenge for a giant robot duel
Earlier this month, Megabots Inc issued a video challenge on Youtube to Suidobashi Heavy Industries, to pit the company's' biggest, ...
When robots are everywhere, what will humans be good for?
This question was prompted to Ray Kurzweil - well known futurologist, pioneer of the Singularity Movement and Director of Engineering ...
Meet the world’s first robot chef, for the rich and lazy
Tired of cooking your own food, hiring help or eating out? Tired of eating, for that matter? Just kidding. The ...
Anti-robot protest rallied at SXSW is just a marketing stunt – the message isn’t
About two dozen University of Texas students gathered on Saturday at the entrance to the SXSW tech and entertainment festival ...
Swarm of 1,000 robots self-assemble in complex shapes
In a breakthrough in robotics, researchers have programmed a swarm consisting of a whooping 1,024 members which can assemble in ...
Origami-bot folds itself from one single sheet of electronics, then walks away
Photo: Seth Kroll Inspired by the ancient Japanese art of Origami, engineers at Harvard and MIT have developed an amazing ...
This author edits 10,000 Wikipedia entries a day
Photo: prisonplanet.com Sverker Johansson could encompass the definition of prolific. The 53-year-old Swede has edited so far 2.7 million articles on ...
Robot fish is remarkably similar to the real thing
PHOTO: MIT Isaac Asimov, the father of the three laws of robotics, made some startling predictions many years ago about ...
Half of U.S. jobs at risk of being taken over by computers
Are you ready to greet our new office robot overlords? (C) MotherJonas An Oxford study that assessed the risks ...
Psychic robot can anticipate when you want a beer and pours you one
There are all kinds of robots nowadays that are here to assist humans with their daily chores, both at work ...
Robot swarms hint towards the future
When you think of robots, the first thing you might think of are anthropological-looking tin cans that beep around and perform ...
Internet for robots comes online
Just recently European scientists have released the first part of the Rapyuta program - a global world wide web for robots. ...
What cockroaches can teach us about balance
Cockroaches are maybe the most amazing insects in the animal kingdom - they're simply made to survive. These little buggers ...
