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Tag Archives: robot
Robots Poised To Take Over Your Living Room As 3D Systems Acquires My Robot Nation
The months old startup My Robot Nation was recently acquired by high-end 3D printing company, 3D Systems, adding yet another [...]
Posted in Art, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity
Tagged 3d printer, 3d printing, 3d systems, my robot nation, robot, Robots, toy robots
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Better, Faster, and Cheaper – These Robots Are Invading Car Manufacturing Plants
Does anyone doubt that it really is just a matter of time before human assembly line workers are a thing [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged ai, assembly line, automation, ford, GM, manufacturing, NASA, robot, robotics, Robots
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Want A Robot At Home? Qbo Is Up For Pre-order
Been dreaming of a having a robot at home but want something more than Romo the iPhone robot and can’t [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged open source, qbo, robot, robotics, Robots, thecorpora
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EMIEW2, The New And Improved Office Robot From Hitachi
Chasing down staplers and printer cartridges hurting your productivity at the office? Fret not. Hitachi has just come out with [...]
Posted in AI, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged ai, android, EMIEW2, hitachi, humanoid robot, robot, robotic assistant, robotics, Robots
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DARPA’s New Robot Conquers Stairs
No sooner does DARPA lay down the Robotics Challenge gauntlet do they then entice would be entrants by giving them [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged Boston Dynamics, darpa, humanoid robot, robot, robotics, robotics challenge
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SushiBot Serves Up An Order Of 3,600 Per Hour
Talk about “fast food,” a Japanese company just unveiled its SushiBot at the World Food and Beverage Expo in Tokyo. [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged automation, robot, robotics, Robots, sushibot
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On-Demand Robots From A 3D Printer
We’ve seen 3D printers churn out toys, bone models, chocolate, even human tissue. Now scientists at MIT want to print [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged 3d printing, ai, MIT, robot, telepresence, telerobot
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Humanoid Robots Fight WWF Style at Japan’s ROBO-ONE
It’s kind of like Rock ‘Em Sock ’Em meets the movie Real Steel. ROBO-ONE is a tournament that pits little [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Video Central
Tagged humanoid robot, Robo-One, robot, robot competition, robotics, Robots, Robots Dreams
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New Video Of Sand Flea Robot Leaping (Onto) Tall Buildings 30ft High
It doesn’t look like much, kind of a simple RC car. That is, until it jumps. Boston Dynamics just released [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged ai, Alpha Dog, Boston Dynamics, petman, robot, robotics, Robots, sand flea
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Telepresence Robot To Join Doctors On Rounds Next Month
Another robot wants to give busy doctors the ability to be in two places at one time. Reminiscent of – [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Longevity And Health, Robots, Singularity
Tagged ctrl works, medicine, robot, Robots, telemedicine, telepresence puppet
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A Vintage Toy Robot Website For The Nostalgic Nerd In All Of Us
There’s nothing like vintage toys to take us back to days gone by, and there’s nothing like vintage robot toys [...]
Posted in Art, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged Mr. Mercury, robby the robot, robot, robot toys, Robots, vintage robots
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Meet The Author Of “Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK”
Growth is a good thing, right? It’s the buzzword on seemingly every politician’s lips, the answer to our economic woes. [...]
Posted in AI, Art, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged ai, automation, economy, federico pistono, robot, robotics, Robots, robots will steal your job but that's ok
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Rollin’ Justin Robot Gets Agile, Learns How To Throw A Ball (video)
Where was Agile Justin last year when we needed him to throw out the first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies [...]
Posted in AI, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged agile justin, ai, DLR, humanoid robot, robot, robotics, Robots, Rollin Justin
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Is 2012 The Year That Robot Applications Take Root?
In July of 2008, the app store concept was launched by Apple and it has dramatically changed the mobile industry. [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity
Tagged apps, myrobots, roboearth, robot, Robots, robotshop
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Robot: I Now Have Common Sense. Engineer: Great, Go Fetch Me a Sandwich!
Willow Garage’s gifted PR2 robot just got even smarter. Developers from the University of Tokyo and the Technical University of [...]
Posted in AI, Robots, Video Central
Tagged ai, android, PR2, robot, robotics, Robots, Technical University of Munchen, university of tokyo, Willow Garage
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A Night Out with the Willow Garage Robots – New Info From the Press Dinner
When a robot asks you out on a date, say yes. Wednesday night, Willow Garage hosted a small press dinner [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces, Robots, Singularity
Tagged humanoid, PR2, robot, Willow Garage
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Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors With Medical Knowledge
The trainee was sequentially presented the details of a fictitious patient: there’s an eye problem; vision is blurred; the family, [...]
Robots, Not Humans, Retrieve Your Books at $81 Million “Library of the Future” (video)
You enter the 8,000-square foot elliptical Grand Reading Room of the Joe and Rika Mansueto library, admiring the arched dome [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged library of the future, Mansueto, robot, robotics, university of chicago
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Best Toy On The Block: Nao Humanoid Robot Plays Card Games With Kids
The Nao Developer Program is making the robot more human-like every day. Just last month Nao robot developer Carl Clement [...]
Robotic Warfare Draws Closer as Robot Jet Fighter Passes Two More Flight Tests
At first glance the X-47B might look like the portly little brother of the B2 Stealth Bomber, but among unmanned [...]
MIT’s Robot Lamp with Augmented Reality (video)
MIT has created its own version of a magic lamp. Nathan Linder of the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT Media [...]
Posted in Computer Interfaces
Tagged AR, augmented reality, Fluid Interfaces Group, LuminAR, LuminAR Bulb, LuminAR Lamp, MIT, MIT Media Lab, Nathan Linder, Pattie Maes, robot
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Tony Robbins, Sergey Brin Become Robots – The Telepresence Revolution
This past weekend while attending an Xprize fundraiser in San Francisco I saw self-help guru Tony Robbins and Google co-founder Sergey [...]
Robot Pharmacists Are Picking Your Medications—Literally
Dispensing medicine is about to get more efficient. New Jersey’s Holy Name Hospital is using robot pharmacists to package, store [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Robots
Tagged automation, davinci robot, for health technologies inc, general electric, hospital, human error, intellifill, ipad, medication, pharmacist, pillpick, robot, swisslog
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New Age of Exploration: Robots Swarm into Land, Sea, and Space
Has the age of human explorers come to an end? There are several projects underway that are sending robots where [...]
New York Times Has Sweet Modular Robot Media
Modular robotics have taken over the New York Times. All the news fit to print now includes a wonderfully conceived [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged CK bot, modular, New York Times, robot, robotics, University of Pennsylvania, UPENN
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