Robots Successfully Assemble An Ikea Chair Last weekend, because of the unseasonably warm weather the wife and I decided to get our son a small (ish) trampoline. It seemed ...
April 23, 2018 at 12:16 pm by Mike Sanders
The official trailer for Pacific Rim Uprising is finally here. More importantly, it actually shows a lot of what everyone wants to see: massive robot battles! The movie is a ...
October 7, 2017 at 5:19 pm by Ron Perillo
Researchers have developed a mergeable nervous systems for robots, allowing for several autonomous robotic bodies to combine into a unit. It sounds like the right building ...
September 13, 2017 at 5:38 pm by Ron Perillo
While everyone is busy arguing about the virtues of self-driving cars, roboticists in Asia have been working on bringing self-driving wheelchairs to the mainstream. Before ...
August 19, 2017 at 4:56 pm by Ron Perillo
That’s it. Game over, man. We’re redundant. The robots are taking over. Google is awarding €706,000 to the Press Association to fund robot reporters to write 30,000 ...
July 7, 2017 at 10:04 pm by Ashley Allen
A drunk man in California attempted to assault a crime prevention robot which called the police and reported its own assault during the incident. Jason Sylvain, whilst ...
May 1, 2017 at 8:46 am by Mike Sanders
Speaking at a China Entrepreneur Club event, Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma addressed the upcoming workplace disruption that will be brought about by robots and the advancement of ...
April 24, 2017 at 8:30 pm by Ron Perillo
Russia has developed a robot capable of firing a gun from both hands. However, the Russian Government insists it has not created ‘a terminator’. It is insisted by ...
April 16, 2017 at 12:19 pm by Mike Sanders
Toyota has announced that it will begin ‘renting’ robotic legs to 100 medical centres in Japan later this year in order to help assist the elderly. BBC news ...
April 14, 2017 at 7:00 pm by Mike Sanders
Taking design cues directly from their own 2014 3D animated action movie Big Hero 6, Disney has applied for patents that involve free-roaming soft bodied robots similar to ...
April 9, 2017 at 11:00 pm by Ron Perillo
MegaBots Inc. issued a challenge to Suidobashi Heavy Industry last year calling out their KURATAS robot in a USA versus Japan face-off fighting duel against MegaBots’ ...
April 6, 2017 at 6:30 pm by Ron Perillo
Automation is making human manual labour obsolete. Already, predictions on the future of the job market appear stark: PricewaterhouseCooper predicts that 30% of the UK’s ...
April 2, 2017 at 6:00 pm by Ashley Allen
Experiments conducted by the artificial intelligence research group OpenAI have revealed that when made to cooperate with each other on an appointed task, robots are ...
March 18, 2017 at 3:00 pm by Ron Perillo
While the impending massive job loss due to significantly increased automation is worrying many people whose careers and livelihoods might be affected, Bill Gates has a ...
February 18, 2017 at 3:51 pm by Ron Perillo
Travis Kalanick, CEO and co-founder of Uber spoke at the World Government Summit in Dubai and declared that the popular ride-sharing company is “at the beginning of ...
February 13, 2017 at 4:00 pm by Ron Perillo
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