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Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Thoughts

Written by: David J. Hill 4 days ago

A neural interface device allows patients to control robotic arms with their minds.

Cathy Hutchinson hasn’t moved her limbs of her own volition for 15 years, but by imagining she was using her [...]

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Automation Comes To The Coffeehouse With Robotic Baristas

Written by: David J. Hill 12 days ago

It may not look like a barista's in this box, but Briggo's robot is inside prepping the next espresso shot.

Say goodbye to lattes with funky tastes or attitude from coffeehouse baristas. At the University of Texas, a startup called [...]

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Green Light For Google’s Driverless Car As It Receives First Autonomous License

Written by: Peter Murray 13 days ago

During test drives the cars will have red license plates. When the car is eventually marketed to consumers, the plate will be green.

We knew Nevada was serious about becoming the first state to adopt driverless cars when the governor signed a law [...]

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Robots Poised To Take Over Your Living Room As 3D Systems Acquires My Robot Nation

Written by: Peter Murray 13 days ago

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The months old startup My Robot Nation was recently acquired by high-end 3D printing company, 3D Systems, adding yet another [...]

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Better, Faster, and Cheaper – These Robots Are Invading Car Manufacturing Plants

Written by: Peter Murray 17 days ago

Robots used cameras and lasers to assemble the 2013 Ford Escape with unprecedented precision.

Does anyone doubt that it really is just a matter of time before human assembly line workers are a thing [...]

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Want A Robot At Home? Qbo Is Up For Pre-order

Written by: Peter Murray 20 days ago

Three types of Qbos are now available for preorder, beginning with the DIY-heavy Lite up to the well equipped Complete Pro.

Been dreaming of a having a robot at home but want something more than Romo the iPhone robot and can’t [...]

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NAO Robot Impresses With New Abilities At Paris Conference

Written by: David J. Hill 21 days ago

Five Next Gen NAO robots break it down to kick off the Dev Days weekend hosted by Aldebaran.

During the first weekend in April, the French maker of NAO robots, Aldebaran Robotics, organized the first ever NAO Spring [...]

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3D Printing Robot Produces Chairs And Tables From Recycled Waste

Written by: David J. Hill 28 days ago

The 3D printing method can produce chairs in only three hours.

Two years ago, a Dutch student named Dirk Vander Kooij was designing furniture and preparing for his graduation project when [...]

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EMIEW2, The New And Improved Office Robot From Hitachi

Written by: Peter Murray 31 days ago

EMIEW2, the new robot office assistant from Hitachi, knows exactly where you left the stapler.

Chasing down staplers and printer cartridges hurting your productivity at the office? Fret not. Hitachi has just come out with [...]

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The Singularity Hub Accelerated Tech News Video Strikes Back!

Written by: Aaron Saenz 32 days ago

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Writing about the Singularity just isn’t enough anymore. Singularity Hub is now firmly in the video business. Our new series, [...]

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DARPA’s New Robot Conquers Stairs

Written by: Peter Murray 33 days ago

A torso, arms and a head are planned for this stair-climbing DARPA robot to be used for developers in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.

No sooner does DARPA lay down the Robotics Challenge gauntlet do they then entice would be entrants by giving them [...]

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Robots Will Drive, Bust Through A Wall, And Make Repairs In DARPA’s New Robotics Challenge

Written by: Peter Murray 40 days ago

DARPA's Robotic Challenge, where robots will perform tasks at a simulated catastrophe site, is sure to attract humanoid robots like Petman.

Five years after the DARPA Grand Challenge robotic cars are already hitting the roads and states are preparing for their [...]

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On-Demand Robots From A 3D Printer

Written by: Peter Murray 44 days ago

These origamiesque robots were printed from a 3D computer. They cost $100 each and take just 70 minutes to print.

We’ve seen 3D printers churn out toys, bone models, chocolate, even human tissue. Now scientists at MIT want to print [...]

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turtles_allthewaydown

Nehopsa - As you know, science was badly burned on this subject before. It's a pretty extraordinay claim, so until they have extraordinary proof, I imagine [...]

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Bento

Well, maybe this can help :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtZTIwSIuGw I like your humor, we will see, I am an 'agnostic' concerning the Ecat. There is something, LENR is real, that's for [...]

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nehopsa

...so by now the Greeks should be repaying their national debt/saving on their energy outlays with abundance of free energy. The first commercial free energy power plant [...]