Freakin’ things happen in the crazy world of robotics. I have spent years trying to sort myself into playing the game of pool, but I am still nowhere close to be called a player. And now take a look at the video below, first time we’ve seen this...
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Right after the surgical robots and bomb sniffing ferret, here’s a Duke University-developed robot that combines the facets of both to a degree of sorts. The laboratory robot is specially designed to sniff out pieces of metal within the human flesh...
Did I mention babysitters and fairytale-reading bots yesterdays? Well, just add mind readers to that amazing list. This one has been developed by members of the European Commission's Joint-Action Science and Technology (JAST) project. The actual...
Are you shattered because you haven’t found a soul mate for yourself? Well, there’s a better way out than heading to the matrimonial: build a mate for yourself. Remember when the world witnessed the Canadian Fembot earlier, it didn’t like you...
In one of the most significant developments in artificial intelligence, a miniature helicopter showed the audience at Stanford University why robots could soon match humans in intelligence. The four-footer flew, flipped, rolled, knife-edged and...
George Devol, the creator of the first industrial robot, once quipped, ‘if people are stupid enough to let robots eventually dominate mankind, maybe they deserve it.’ Well, the recent advancements in robotics prove that our stupidity march is...
Spielberg will be mighty pleased with an effort that would remind him of his very own “War of the worlds”. Only, this time around, the subject is a robotic manifestation and no visitor from outer space. With a warning board that screams “might...
How would you build a conscious machine? Well to begin with I'd get Life Insurance and then take my brain and put it in a jar and freeze my body. Then hundreds of years later wake me up and transplant me into an IronMan. Yes, I partially got that idea..
See, this is exactly the kind of thing that will bring about the doom of mankind at the hand of rebellious robots of the future. Developed by one Dr. Wei-Min Shen, these robots are composed of a number of modules, each of which seem to have a brain,...
It is perhaps the most heartening news in the quest for bridging the gap between ‘real’ and ‘virtual’. Movies such as Minority Report have surely set high expectations about computers interacting with us on a ‘human’ level. And, the Matrix..
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