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The Pentagon’s risk-taking research agency is kicking off a new program to turn everyday cameras into autonomous ‘bots with problem-solving smarts…
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Israel is developing an army of robotic fighting machines that offers a window onto the potential future of warfare…
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2009 has been an amazing year in the world of robots…
See why factory workers should be terrified for their job security…
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Robotic Dangers!
Bring in the lawyers!
“There could be big issues here.” What do you mean “could be”? There are big issues here!
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It started off innocently enough. Personal transporters, they told us, just robots to make life easier. Now look at them — Toyota’s Partner Robots are set for upgrades that include back-mounted solar chargers, spring-loaded jumping mechanisms, and a design hardy enough to withstand lunar temperature drops. Intended for the performance of exploratory missions on the moon — alongside a four-wheeled robotic rover — the new designs were introduced by Toyota in a presentation titled “Realization of Moon Exploration Using Advanced Robots by 2020.” So, if the world doesn’t actually end in 2012, by 2020 we’ll have extraterrestrial robots plotting our demise anyway. More pictures of lunar colonization can be found after the break. more>>>
After four days in a classroom absorbing insights and information from the frontiers of science and technology, the Singularity University Executive Program busts out for a succession of field trips to real, live businesses…
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It can do just about everything a real dolphin can - dive, leap, roll and even hit speeds of up 20mph underwater.
The robot dolphin even looks very like its natural namesake. But what is it for?
Cartoon hero Tintin used a similar machine - his looked rather more like a shark - in one of his adventures.
But the New Zealand inventor behind the robot dolphin is not expecting his creation to be used to thwart villainy on the high seas. Instead Rob Innes expects it to sell for around £30,000 to film companies and others who need a ’stunt’ water craft.
The machine has a fibreglass skin, is fully submersible and can dive rapidly using its 110horsepower engine. It can do up to 30mph on the surface and 20mph below - only 2mph less than a real dolphin.
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Who says you can’t teach robots new tricks? In this new video, Boston Dynamics’ LittleDog delicately navigates a mini-forest of cylinders like a Chinese wuxia martial artist, but also shows plenty of clumsy pratfalls in the course of its training.
LittleDog is the little sibling of the much scarier and noisier BigDog. The latter has gone on to become a robot Sherpa and mule for U.S. Army troops in the mountainous regions of Afghanistan.
The latest footage comes courtesy of Katie Byl, a robotics researcher at Harvard University whose previous exploits include beating casinos with the MIT Blackjack Team. Keep an eye out for the adorable real-life dog that gives the camera a wide-eyed passing stare. more>>>
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As if living bats weren’t scary enough. These things could be used to drop little bombs on targets!
ScienceDaily (July 8, 2009) — Tiny flying machines can be used for everything from indoor surveillance to exploring collapsed buildings, but simply making smaller versions of planes and helicopters doesn’t work very well. Instead, researchers at North Carolina State University are mimicking nature’s small flyers – and developing robotic bats that offer increased maneuverability and performance. more>>>
Robots are getting better at finding their way around unknown areas, and making their own maps as they explore. But robots lost in urban areas don’t need to rely on their own faculties to get from place to place, German roboticists have shown.
Their mobile robot simply rolls up to any humans nearby and asks for directions. By using that strategy, their robot has become one of the first to be properly let loose in the real world, not just carefully controlled environments.
Martin Buss’s team at the Technical University of Munich dumped their mobile robot outside the university and instructed it to find its way to the Marienplatz in the centre of Munich, some 1.5 kilometres away. more>>>
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