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Tag: robots
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 ...