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We have a winner! (Actually several)
South Korea won first place in 2015’s DARPA Robotics Challenge, with Team Kaist’s robot, DRC-HUBO. ($2,000,000.00) Second place: IIT’s “Running Man” (A modified Atlas robot from Boston Dynamics)...
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Robots be trippin’
Well falling, anyway. For the team working tirelessly, day after day, trying to equip their robot to win the DARPA Robotics Challenge, it must be painful to watch their work topple over with no safety...
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“Rise of the Robots – Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future”– new...
“What are the jobs of the future? How many will there be? And who will have them? We might imagine—and hope—that today’s industrial revolution will unfold like the last: even as some jobs are...
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Milestone – A “deep learning” AI is besting humans on an IQ test for the...
Experts warn that superintelligent AI may pose an existential risk to humankind. But not to worry, because teams of scientists are hard at work trying to develop a computer smart enough to help us...
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Pepper, the robot that can read peoples’ emotions and “feel” its own...
Pepper, built by Aldebaran Robotics of France (maker of the NAO robot), and marketed by Softbank of Japan, went on sale today in Japan. And in one minute, all 1,000 units were sold. The current model...
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They for one, welcome their new robotic overlords
Actually, this is Germany’s modular robot MYON, singing in a performance called “My Square Lady” at the Berlin Opera. From Reuters
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Dawn of the household android
The dawn of the household android is upon us. Aldebaran, French maker of the NAO and Pepper robots, already has another one in the works, named Romeo. The tallest of the three, at 140 cm (approx. 4.6...
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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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ORi – Open Roboethics initiative
If a dog runs out in front of your self-driving car, and the choice is either hit the dog, or plummet from a cliff, which choice should it make? What if it’s a child instead of a dog? Would you trust...
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The robot revolution is happening, and they’re not even smart yet
image by Julosstock https://about.me/julientromeur Jobs are being lost NOW. People are going into automation, and their job is to help their company make money by replacing people with programs and...
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