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08/24/2016 / By roboticsnews
Space Robots Help Clear the Road for Self-Driving Cars
Nissan’s first fully self-driving car will be based on technolog that NASA developed for planetary exploration. (Article by Bob Silberg) NASA’s Ames Research Center is in the second year of a five-year partnership with Nissan to develop an autonomous electric car, targeted for release in 2020. That collaboration includes adapting software from Ames’ K-10 and […]
08/23/2016 / By roboticsnews
World’s First Tattoo by an Industrial Robot Revealed
An industrial robot has tattooed a person’s leg for what the designers claim is the first time in history (+ movie). (Article by De Zeen) The Fanuc M-710iC robot, more commonly used in the automotive industry, was programmed to tattoo a spiral shape onto the lower section of a man’s leg.   Appropriate Audiences, the […]
08/22/2016 / By roboticsnews
We Don’t Understand AI Because We Don’t Understand Intelligence
Artificial intelligence prophets including Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Raymond Kurzweil predict that by the year 2030 machines will develop consciousness through the application of human intelligence. This will lead to a variety of benign, neutral and terrifying outcomes. For example, Musk, Hawking and dozens of other researchers signed a petition in January 2015 that […]
08/18/2016 / By roboticsnews
NASA’s Space Robotics Challenge: The Tasks, the Prizes, and How to Participate
Last year at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals, NASA announced a new challenge for humanoid robots: the Space Robotics Challenge (SRC), which will “prepare robots for the journey to Mars.” Just like the DRC, the first stage of the SRC will consist of a virtual challenge, run in the Gazebo simulator, followed up by a […]
08/17/2016 / By roboticsnews
Robot Octopus Points the Way to Soft Robotics with Eight Wiggly Arms
The sun was sparkling on the Mediterranean Sea on the afternoon when a graduate student from my lab tossed our prize robot into the water for the first time. I watched nervously as our electronic creation sank beneath the waves. But the bot didn’t falter: When we gave it the command to swim, it filled […]
08/16/2016 / By roboticsnews
US Manufacturing Jobs Lost to Robots Not Outsourcing
It’s an exciting time to be alive my friends. We got augmented reality games on our phones, AI-virus software searching for vulnerabilities and burritos at Burger King. Times are a changing. Years ago, when US workers were frustrated by waves and waves of outsourcing to China and India, former (Article by Zacks) GE (GE) CEO Jack […]
08/15/2016 / By roboticsnews
Big data and robotics: A long history together
Big data is a big deal today. Even small companies are seeing the benefits of gathering and analyzing the staggering amounts of information that are streaming in from all kinds of online sources. (Article by Bob Violino) While the term “big data” is relatively new, the concept has long been a part of the world […]
08/11/2016 / By roboticsnews
Demonic Robot Snakes Are About to Slither Through Our Oceans
I hope no one was planning to sleep tonight, because this robotic sea snake is guaranteed to haunt your dreams: The robot is part of a collaboration between Eelume, Kongsberg Maritime, and Statoil, and is intended to inspect underwater gear. Its slinky structure will allow it to get into smaller spaces and perform “light maintenance,” […]
08/10/2016 / By roboticsnews
Robots allowed to trade money and claim copyright on their work under radical new EU plans
Robots could be freed from their human masters and handed the power to own possessions under radical new EU plans. (Article by Scott Campbell) Officials want to have machines declared as “electronic persons” amid fears they could challenge humanity for control of the Earth. The plans would mean the robots could claim copyright on their […]
08/09/2016 / By roboticsnews
Old MacDonald Had A FarmBot, I/O, I/O, I/O
“You kids these days don’t know how good you’ve got it. Back in the day, we had to actually get our hands in the soil and manually plant seeds, pull weeds, and water the garden. Nowadays, you just drag and drop your garden program routines from the safety of the couch, and let the FarmBot […]
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