robots

CES 2018: LG robot Cloi repeatedly fails on stage at unveil http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42614281

Today's tabloids bring us a story about a supposed robot that is so lifelike it has "divided the internet" with controversy. It was reported in a handful of rags including the Daily Mail, Yahoo7 News, and the Mirror. Almost forty years ago I took a trip to Disneyland in California and visited...

UK Economic Outlook March, 2017 Our analysis suggests that up to 30% of UK jobs could potentially be at high risk of automation by the early 2030s, lower than the US (38%) or Germany (35%), but higher than Japan (21%). In this article we present the findings from our own analysis of this...

Does anybody here build robots? I mean things like Lego Mindstorms, or more complicated stuff with little development boards and sensors and motors and stuff? I've been working with Mindstorms (v2, not the newer v3) but have been looking at all these cool ads in Robot and Servo magazines. I...

The recent advances in machine technology,and robotics notwithstanding, will machines ever be truly humanlike. For a Breath I Tarry, by Roger Zelazny (extract). Mordel drove a shaft of metal downward into the snow. He retracted it, raised it, held up a piece of ice. "Regard...

Actually no. Warning Daily Mail. :covereyes Cleaning gadget 'switches itself on' and moves onto kitchen hotplate in 'suicide bid'

Reading about humanoid robots, I noticed that they're power-hungry gadgets. Most of them can only store enough power in their batteries for an hour or two of running time. For example, the Asimo has a 13 pound (6kg) lithium ion battery, but even a battery this huge only lasts an hour. I assume...

Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. Fg_JcKSHUtQ :cool::cool::cool:

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Psyleron, well-know purveyors to the gullible of devices that purport to be influenced by peoples' minds such as the REG-1 random event generator and the Mind Lamp, are adding the Psyleron Robot to their family of randomly-controlled gadgets: http://www.psyleron.com/robot.aspx Other exciting...

Consider a conscious robot with a brain composed of a computer running sophisticated software. Let's assume that the appropriately organized software is conscious in a sense similar to that of human brains. Would the robot be conscious if we ran the computer at a significantly reduced clock...

Hello all! I am reading this article this morning about a robot power system that uses nearly any organic matter. They say "A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass...

A neat little site I stumbled across lately was a project in New York called Tweenbots. As described on the site, Tweenbots are human-dependent little robots that rely on human interaction to get from one place to another. By "interaction" I mean that they have a little flag attached to them...

Five years and still going! Yaaaay NASA! :D NASA's Mars Rovers Still Making Tracks

Robot removes Calgary woman's brain tumour http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=9d9e3053-9214-40d6-805f-c0b08fd29ba7 Though I would call it a Waldo as defined by Robert A Heinlein rather than a robot.

I'm not sure how practical it is compared to wheels or tracks, but check out this recent footage of the "Big Dog" four legged robot from Boston Dynamics. It looks damn near animal like when it walks, slips and nearly falls on ice. That thing would scare the hell out of me if I saw it walking...

Just astounding what this thing can do. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mmVaLp8icoU I had to laugh when I realized it was not a couple of guys in a pony suit. The possibilities are pretty scary.

Quantum computers are going to be built soon. The moore's law will come to a end soon, and be replaced by quantu computers. However, these will never be able to think like humans. How would they play chess? tactically, they are really good. However in a static game computers could beat humans...

Demographic Crisis, Robotic Cure? Japan is approaching a change in demographics for which there is no precedent in history (some other countries are undergoing similar transformations). Many here in Japan, and elsewhere, assume that it will be a major economic disaster, hence "crisis." The...

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/ptech/12/11/honda.robot.ap/index.html I though this could be put either in the philosophy or business section. If the mods wish to move it then so be it. So currently the technology exists where robots are able to clean pools, vacuume houses, serve drinks, and...

It has always seemed relatively obvious to me that "eventually," technology will outclass humans in every possible human endeavor. (And by always, I mean since I was a little kid.) This is because it's certainly possible (worst case scenario, we can simply reverse engineer how humans do it and...

Do you realize that if we designed a robot to create...and gave the robot free-will to the extent that we programmed it so that we could see and hear *it*, but it could not see or hear *us*, that to the robot, all creations would have been manifest either through it's own ability to create, or...

http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/2006/09/robot_thinks_pe.html I hope they invent an orthodox jewish robot or noone will be safe!

Isaac Asimov was wrong, we will have small, fast, light and strong robots. Read here: http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT10/Abstracts/Wright2/index.html Now imagine billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billlions of those motors working together, each one like a muscle cell, together...

Scientists at the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York have created small robots that can build copies of themselves. Each robot consists of several 10-cm cubes which have identical machinery, electromagnets to attach and detach to each other and a computer programme for replication. The...

The Three Laws of Robotics are: 1. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as...

Sounds pretty slow to be even jogging, but cool nonetheless. sony qrio robot

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