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Japanese Hotel ‘Sacks’ Half It’s Robot Workforce
Japanese Robot Hotel There is always something rather pleasant about finding a hotel with a few quirks. For example, a recent trend has seen former city jailed converted into ‘prison’ themed hotels. The Henn na Hotel in Japan, however, offered something more than a little different. It was, essentially, the first…
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Amazon Warehouse Workers To Be Given Robot Safety Belts
Amazon While the conditions of working inside an Amazon warehouse might have been brought under some question in the last year, there is little doubt that robots and automation plays a huge role in the retail giant managing the huge volume of orders it receives. It seems, however, that to…
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Robot Dog Can Get Knocked Down But He’ll Get Up Again
Robot Dog Survives A Kick One of the biggest design challenges in robots is specifically their balance and articulation. As was demonstrated in the original Robocop film, when ED209 fell over, he was rendered useless. The team at Robotics Systems Labs, however, are trying to make the recovery process a lot…
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Nvidia Announce Opening Of Robotics Research Laboratory
Nvidia Open Robotics Research Laboratory In terms of technological development, Nvidia is, without a doubt, one of the world leaders. Their research development scope is so huge in fact that it’s one of the key reasons why AMD has always struggled to compete with them. It’s simply a case of massively…
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Segway To Showcase Delivery Robots At CES 2019
Delivery Robots At CES 2019 There are many who seem convinced that the future of deliveries lies in robots. We have, after all, already seen Amazon expressing more than a little interest in the concept. Albeit, they are primarily looking into the ‘drone‘ area of technology rather than an outright…
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US Army Accepting Bids For $500m Robot Contract
US Army Accepting Robot Contract Bids Whether you like the idea of it or not, recent years have seen various armed forces across the world looking more towards robots. Fortunately, in most instances these robots have been used for either recognisance or, on a much more understandable level, doing the…
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Japans Latest Robot Is Meant To Be Loved – Not Understood
Lovot Only Wants To Be Loved! Japan is exceptionally famous not only for their work on robots but the unique place that they have in the culture. It is, therefore, hardly surprising that when we hear news of a brand new robot available to commercially buy, it’s probably got its…
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Latest Companion Robot from Japan is Designed to “Love”
Say Hello to the Lovot A Japanese robotics company called Groove X has launched their new Lovot companion bot. Typical companion bots are designed to perform tasks for its master. However, these Lovot bots are purely for companionship. Groove X claims that they have worked for years developing it under…
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Amazing Russian Robot Turns Out To Be A Man In A Suit
Russian Robot Is Revealed As A Man In A Suit Robots are, without a doubt, one of the more fascinating areas of the technology industry. When it comes to seeing advanced designs though, we are, of course, more accustomed to seeing them produced in countries such as Japan. When a…
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Robot Attacks 30 Amazon Workers With Bear Mace – Yes, Really!
Robot Puts 24 Amazon Workers In Hospital Over the last year, you may have heard more than a few stories about the ‘horror conditions’ that exist within the Amazon warehouses. High-pressured, massive workload and all under the cosh of some of the strictest timekeeping practices out there. What you, however,…
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Furhat – A Robot Designed To Listen To Your Problems
Furhat – A Robot Designed To Listen To Your Problems We all have our problems and sometimes it’s nice to have a little bit of a ‘vent’. It can, however, sometimes be more than a little difficult to do it. Firstly, it’s human nature that it can be difficult to…
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Man Claims Visit To The Year 3700 And The News Isn’t Good
Man Claims Visit To The Year 3700 And The News Isn’t Good You may, on occasion, have encountered someone who attempts to tell you, with great interest, their story about visiting the future, past or possibly being abducted by aliens. They might have a tin-foil hat on or, at the…
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Robot Art Exhibition Looks To Use Body Language
Robot Art Exhibition Looks To Use Body Language There’s a growing consensus amongst various celebrities (and those people who likely wear tin foil hats) that when the human race is finally wiped off the face of the Earth, robots will have probably have had a hand in the decision. If you…
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Hopping Frog-Like Robot Design Revealed
Hopping Frog-Like Robot Design Revealed There are many people who firmly believe that when the human race is finally kicked off planet Earth, robots will probably have a hand (or claw?) in it! We have certainly seen the technology come a long way in just the last 10 years, however, if…
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MEP’s Vote To Place Ban On Killer Robots
MEP’s Vote To Place Ban On Killer Robots There are many people out there who feel that when the human apocalypse comes, it will either be robots or AI. At the very least, many suspect they’ll have a ‘hand’ in it. There has, however, been growing evidence that many countries…
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