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Panasonic shows how its robotic suits ease your burden
If you ask Panasonic, the future is full of wearable robotic assistants... lots of them. The Japanese tech giant has posted a video highlighting all the exoskeletons and service robots it's working on, and it's clear that the company wants to bring bionics to just about every facet of life. The …
Watch This Team of Six Tiny Robots Move a Car
Don’t let their small size fool you.<p>This team of six robots smaller than your hand can tow a car. If you’ve got a little time to wait around, that is.<p>…
Watch the Next Generation Atlas Robot Get Bullied By A Mean Human (And Stay On His Feet)
Boston Dynamics has a new video showing off the latest version of Atlas—the badass humanoid robot. And it’s pretty incredible. The most striking …
Google's AI neural network robot so smart it has solved a puzzle used in Google job interviews
Google's artificially intelligent neural network of computers is now so clever that it can solve puzzles meant for computing professionals who apply …
Hanging out with the adorable Starship delivery robot
We first learned all about the robot — called Starship — late last year, and how the company wants it to help small suburban businesses make low-cost deliveries with almost no added infrastructure. It's not a flashy idea — Starship tops out at 4 miles per hour and carries about 20 pounds worth of …
RoboticsLowe's has a robot that speaks 7 languages and can help customers find anything in the warehouse
Soon, I might no longer have to beckon a human — but an Oshbot, a 5-foot-tall robot that can quickly direct me to any item in the warehouse.<p>When you approach an Oshbot, it uses facial-recognition technology to identify you as a human.<p>"Hi, I'm Oshbot," it then greets you in a monotone voice. "I can …
'AI can solve world's biggest problems' - Google Brain engineer
Artificial intelligence will eventually solve some of the world's biggest problems -- but it'll take some smart humans to get it there.<p>Quoc Le, a software engineer at Google Brain, is one such human.<p>Google Brain focuses on "deep learning," a part of artificial intelligence. Think of it as a …
Artificial IntelligenceThe robot economy may already have arrived
Shutterstock/studiostoks. All rights reserved.In order to understand both where we are going and why we are witnessing the disappearance of good jobs …
Would you bet against sex robots? AI 'could leave half of world unemployed'
Scientist Moshe Vardi tells colleagues that change could come within 30 years, with few professions immune to effect of advanced artificial intelligence<p>Machines could put more than half the world’s population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday …
Artificial IntelligenceWant a job at Google's new self-driving car company? They're hiring
New job postings reveal how the company plans to bring its autonomous cars to market, pointing to a large manufacturing operation<p>Alphabet, the holding company for Google, is pushing forward with plans to spin-out its self-driving car project into a standalone business making and marketing …
Autonomous CarsDutch police are fighting drones with eagles
The Dutch police have come up with an innovative way to tackle stray drones - take them down with an eagle.<p>Rogue drones can be a serious privacy, safety or security risk, and there have been numerous attempts to come up with the perfect anti-drone weapon.<p>Drones have been crash landed in the grounds …
The White HouseDouble Robotics' new telepresence robot brings more speed, stability, and sight
The Double 2 doesn't try to reinvent the wheel<p>Don’t mess with a good thing. That’s the thesis behind the newest telepresence robot from Double Robotics, the Double 2. Announced today at CES, the new model keeps the form factor of the original, which debuted three years ago and has shipped over …
Segway just built a hoverboard robot
Hoverboards have made those dorky-looking Segways even more passé.<p>Segway's response: a hoverboard that turns into a robot.<p>Yup, at CES 2016's opening keynote address, Intel (INTC) CEO Brian Krzanich demonstrated a hoverboard built by Segway -- the company that makes electric scooters for mall …
RoboticsHow Soon Before Your Job Is Done By A Robot? This Handy Chart Will Tell You
McKinsey recently published research looking at the automation potential of 750 jobs, analyzing each across across 18 capabilities. It found that 45% …
HandyThis transforming robot rolls around your home and shoots projections everywhere
LAS VEGAS — In between the million of TVs, laptops, and wearables at CES are a whole bunch of weird gadgets, like Cerevo's Tipron robot.<p>Tipron is a …
Google's Verily is developing surgical robots
Verily Life Sciences - formerly known as Google Life Sciences - has partnered with Johnson & Johnson medical devices subsidiary Ethicon to form Verb …
Medical TechnologyThese giant robots will mine the ocean floor for gold, silver, and copper
The robots are being built by Soil Machine Dynamics, a manufacturer of subsea robotic vehicles, for Toronto-based company Nautilus Minerals, IEEE Spectrum first reported. The robots are being tested in 2016 and, if all goes according to plan, they will depart in 2018 for 30 months.<p>The massive, …
Does this “humanlike” robot receptionist make you feel welcome or creeped out?
From a distance, Nadine looks like a very normal middle-aged woman, with a sensible haircut and dress style, and who’s probably all caught up on <i>Downton Abbey</i>. But then you hear Nadine talk and move, and you notice something’s a bit off. Nadine is actually the construct of Nadia Thalmann, the …
Downton AbbeyRecommended Robot and AI Reads This Week - MIT Technology Review
Google Offers Free Software in Bid to Gain Edge in Machine Learning<br>By releasing the code it has developed for training machines to learn how to do …
This Weed-Destroying Farm Robot Is Going To Replace Farm Workers
But it also means way fewer herbicides. Maybe the way to chemical-free foods is through more automation.<p>The automated weeding machine before you may be the most efficient weeder in history. It can work all day. It destroys two weeds a second. And, it never goes on strike (unless it breaks …
18 artificial intelligence researchers reveal the profound changes coming to our lives
1/<p>Pieter Abbeel says robots will keep us safer, especially from disasters.<p>REUTERS/Kyodo<p>AI for robotics will allow us to address the challenges in …
Artificial IntelligenceI went to Best Buy and encountered a robot named Chloe — and now I'm convinced she's the future of retail
She's quick to respond, efficient, and pleasant.<p>And she's a robot.<p>Chloe is a robot Best Buy has employed to help customers at its Chelsea location in Manhattan.<p>She sifts through music, movies, and games, bringing you what you want quickly without the hassle of sorting through messy shelves.<p>I went …
Amazon is now using a whole lot more of the robots from the company it bought for $775 million
It's the company Amazon bought for $775 million in 2012. Kiva makes robots that automate the whole picking and packing process at large warehouses.<p>Amazon began using Kiva robots only last year, and by the end of 2014, said it had 15,000 bots working across 10 of its warehouses.<p>Now it looks like …
Six areas that artificial emotional intelligence will revolutionise
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of making clever machines. It's coming along very well. There are already some phenomenally smart boxes …
Emotional IntelligenceCanada opens first digital hospital where robots roam hallways
<b>Toronto:</b> North America's first totally digital hospital has opened in Toronto, Canada, with automated services such as robots carrying supplies …
RoamFacebook’s Aquila is a solar-powered drone that beams Internet down to earth
Facebook’s answer to Google’s Internet-disseminating balloons? Drones. The social network has constructed a massive, autonomous aircraft — called …
Hitchhiking Robot That Crossed Nations Fails to Last 2 Weeks in U.S.
Yoshikazu Tsuno—AFP/Getty Images<p>Nicolas Datiche—SIPA<p>Yoshikazu Tsuno—AFP/Getty Images<p>Yoshikazu Tsuno—AFP/Getty Images<p>Barcroft Media<p>Yoshikazu …
RoboticsHuman-like robots could be the next big platform
Robot makers Jibo and Blue Frog Robotics are creating social robots that are aimed at living with humans and in order to entice consumers they are selling them for about the same cost as an iPhone.<p>Jibo's robot called Jibo is priced at about $749 for pre-order and Blue Frog Robotics' robot called …