Reality Bites
The US Is Banning Foreign-Made Humanoid Robots And Power Inverters https://www.engadget.com/2225693/the-us-is-banning-foreign-made-humanoid-robots-and-power-inverters/ #unitedstates #foreign #robots #inverters #ban View Original Article
Tesla is killing off its Model S and X cars to make robots https://www.engadget.com/transportation/evs/tesla-is-killing-off-its-model-s-and-x-cars-to-make-robots-010621101.html #tesla #vehicles #robots #ElonMusk View Original Article
Elon Musk: We Need Universal Income Because Robots Will Steal All the Jobs Spacentrepreneur Elon Musk thinks we’ll eventually need a basic universal income because of “automation.” This was posted on Google+
Cool! Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS Robot Is Now a Backflipping Cyborg Supersoldier 10 minutes ago, I was cautiously optimistic that one day we’d live and work side-by-side with robots in perfect harmony. Then Boston Dynamics posted a video of its ATLAS humanoid robot performing incredible jumps and backflips, and now I’m ready to go find a …
That's kinda neat! This Bionic Kangaroo Is Perfect For an Australia-Themed Amusement Park Yesterday, Festo unveiled a bird-inspired wind turbine, but today, the company has unveiled a new robotic creation that’s a little more recognizable. The world may not have a huge need for a bionic kangaroo–outside of Australian-themed amusement parks–but emulating the marsupial could …
This sure makes me wonder what they've got planned with all these acquisitions. #google Meet Google’s Robot Army. It’s Growing. Google can’t stop buying robotics companies. In the past two months, eight of the 12 companies the search giant has acquired have “robotics” in their name or descriptions. Here’s your complete breakdown of the …
Now this thing looks badass! NASA’s New Robot Looks Like Iron Man, May Save Your Life One Day Let’s be honest: Most robots look pretty dumb these days. Whether it’s the little disk-shaped Roomba that cleans your floor or the jumble of rods and wires that builds your car, these machines seem—for lack of …
Really looking forward to seeing this Meet the deadly droids of Elysium We’ve seen the glories of Elysium and the ignominies of Earth, but here are the super-deadly robots who maintain order. This featurette reveals why these droids are the “special ops” of Elysium (I’d still rather deal with them than the civil service robot, …
Wondering when you can get your own Galaxy Tab 10.1, one that exchanges the cute field of robots on the back for an upgrade to Android 3.1? It appears that day is next week, with the NYC Best Buy in Union Square becoming the first to offer this tabl…
Japan’s Yaskawa Corporation is a firm whose starry-eyed goal is to arm robots with laser swords. After teaching their Motoman robots to dance with lightsabers, Yaskawa has now taught two robotic arms t…
When robots control our entire existence, life will be bleak and joyless, according to this recent Dodge ad, crafted by Carl Erik Rinsch, director of the hot science fiction short The Gift and the upco…
With an 80 percent success rate, there’s a pretty good chance that Justin here is better at playing catch than you are. This old German Aerospace Agency-designed robot, which we first saw in 2009, learned a new trick — he can track thrown objects as …
iRobot recently deployed a pair of robots to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan, where intense levels of radiation have made it increasingly dangerous for human rescue workers to operate. The remote-controlled Packbots entered one of Fukush…
We’ve seen robots that perform brain surgery and lasers that cook tumors, and now a team of researchers are well on their way to bringing mobility to the battle against brain cancer. The NovoTTF-100A, which just received FDA approval, is basically a s…
We’ve seen a rather creepy array of robots programmed to mimic human emotions, but teaching a machine to feel regret? Now, that’s a new one. With funding from Google, a team of Tel Aviv University researchers is working on an algorithm to teach compute…
You’ve seen one quadrocopter juggle a ball autonomously while gliding through the air, but how’s about a pair of them working cooperatively? Yeah, we’ve got your attention now. The Zurich-based lab that brought us the piano-playing and ball-bouncing q…
Do you pine for animatronic eyes and robots that whisper sweet nothings in your ear? Well, geeks with distant girlfriends rejoice, because TEROOS, the shoulder-mounted, remotely-controlled telepresence avatar has arrived. Created by researchers from K…
If the notion of a tiny robot swimming around in your eye leaves you a bit uneasy then, well, you might want to stop right here. For the rest of you, though, you may be interested in some new tests now being conducted by Michael Kummer and his team of…
Twitter user Terrordome noticed an amusing sight in New York City outside of Hasbro's Toy Fair gala — the Optimus Prime rig parked outside had received a ticket. Even robots in disguise are not e…