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Mar 21, 2016
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Watch This Team of Six Tiny Robots Move a Car
Fortune - Hilary Brueck
Don’t let their small size fool you. 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. …
Mar 14, 2016
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Watch the Next Generation Atlas Robot Get Bullied By A Mean Human (And Stay On His Feet)
Gizmodo - Matt Novak
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 …
Feb 24, 2016
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Google's AI neural network robot so smart it has solved a puzzle used in Google job interviews
International Business Times (GB) - Mary-Ann Russon
Google's artificially intelligent neural network of computers is now so clever that it can solve puzzles meant for computing professionals who apply …
Feb 18, 2016
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Hanging out with the adorable Starship delivery robot
The Verge - Sean O'Kane
Picture this: You're hungry, so you order some food online. But when it comes 30 minutes later, it's not being handed to you by a human. Instead, you pluck it out of a robot. It sounds weird, but some...
Feb 23, 2016
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Lowe's has a robot that speaks 7 languages and can help customers find anything in the warehouse
Business Insider - Leanna Garfield
Whenever I visit a Lowe's, the hardware super store feels more like a maze. A few months ago, I spent forever roaming the aisles for a power drill before I finally found an employee. Soon, I might no have...
Feb 22, 2016
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'AI can solve world's biggest problems' - Google Brain engineer
CNN Business - by Sara Ashley O'Brien
Artificial intelligence will eventually solve some of the world's biggest problems -- but it'll take some smart humans to get it there. Quoc Le, a software engineer at Google Brain, is one such human....
Feb 22, 2016
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The robot economy may already have arrived
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Shutterstock/studiostoks. All rights reserved.In order to understand both where we are going and why we are witnessing the disappearance of good jobs …
Feb 11, 2016
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Would you bet against sex robots? AI 'could leave half of world unemployed'
The Guardian - Alan Yuhas in Washington DC
Scientist Moshe Vardi tells colleagues that change could come within 30 years, with few professions immune to effect of advanced artificial intelligence Machines could put more than half the world’s population...
Feb 13, 2016
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Want a job at Google's new self-driving car company? They're hiring
The Guardian - Mark Harris in Seattle
New job postings reveal how the company plans to bring its autonomous cars to market, pointing to a large manufacturing operation Alphabet, the holding company for Google, is pushing forward with plans...
Feb 11, 2016
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Dutch police are fighting drones with eagles
The Telegraph - By Cara McGoogan
The Dutch police have come up with an innovative way to tackle stray drones - take them down with an eagle. Rogue drones can be a serious privacy, safety or security risk, and there have been numerous...
Feb 1, 2016
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Double Robotics' new telepresence robot brings more speed, stability, and sight
The Verge - Ben Popper
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...
Jan 6, 2016
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Segway just built a hoverboard robot
CNN Business - by David Goldman
Hoverboards have made those dorky-looking Segways even more passé. Segway's response: a hoverboard that turns into a robot. Yup, at CES 2016's opening keynote address, Intel (INTC) CEO Brian Krzanich a...
Jan 6, 2016
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How Soon Before Your Job Is Done By A Robot? This Handy Chart Will Tell You
fastcoexist.com - Ben Schiller
McKinsey recently published research looking at the automation potential of 750 jobs, analyzing each across across 18 capabilities. It found that 45% …
Jan 6, 2016
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Transforming robot rolls around the home and projects screens wherever
Mashable - Raymond Wong
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. Tipron is a "transforming, Internet-connected projection robot"...
Jan 5, 2016
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Google's Verily is developing surgical robots
Wired UK - K.G Orphanides
Verily Life Sciences - formerly known as Google Life Sciences - has partnered with Johnson & Johnson medical devices subsidiary Ethicon to form Verb …
Dec 11, 2015
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These giant robots will mine the ocean floor for gold, silver, and copper
Business Insider - Danielle Muoio
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...
Dec 30, 2015
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Does this “humanlike” robot receptionist make you feel welcome or creeped out?
Quartz - Mike Murphy
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 Downton Abbey. But then you hear Nadine talk and move, you...
Dec 31, 2015
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“A roundup of interesting stories on robotics and artificial intelligence from other sites, collected by Will Knight, MIT...
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Nov 18, 2015
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This Weed-Destroying Farm Robot Is Going To Replace Farm Workers
fastcoexist.com - Ben Schiller
About the size of a compact car, the BoniRob is being developed by Deepfield Robotics, a startup owned by Bosch in Germany. It knows where it is in a …
Nov 19, 2015
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18 artificial intelligence researchers reveal the profound changes coming to our lives
techinsider.io - Tech Insider
Pieter Abbeel says robots will keep us safer, especially from disasters. AI for robotics will allow us to address the challenges in taking care of an …
Oct 26, 2015
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I went to Best Buy and encountered a robot named Chloe — and now I'm convinced she's the future of retail
Business Insider - Marina Nazario
The first time I went to see Chloe, she was "sick." The robot had some technical issues and was under operation. I was bummed, but determined to come back and see her. I came back a few weeks later and...
Oct 23, 2015
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Amazon is now using a whole lot more of the robots from the company it bought for $775 million
Business Insider - Eugene Kim
Remember Kiva Systems? 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. Amazon began using Kiva robots...
Oct 22, 2015
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Six areas that artificial emotional intelligence will revolutionise
Wired UK - Alain De Botton
In order to see this embed, you must give consent to Social Media cookies. Open my . Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of making clever …
Oct 21, 2015
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Canada opens first digital hospital where robots roam hallways
smh.com.au
There are also automatic robots that move around passageways, carrying medical supplies to the hospital staff, which can also use elevators. Humber …
Oct 20, 2015
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Sep 22, 2015
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arisplex.com is your first and best source for all of the information you’re looking for. From general topics to more of what you would expect to find …
Aug 28, 2015
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Facebook’s Aquila is a solar-powered drone that beams Internet down to earth
Digital Trends - Kyle Wiggers
Facebook’s answer to Google’s Internet-disseminating balloons? Drones. The social network has constructed a massive, autonomous aircraft — called …
Jul 31, 2015
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Hitchhiking Robot That Crossed Nations Fails to Last 2 Weeks in U.S.
TIME - By Jack Linshi
A hitchhiking robot eager to explore America has met its demise just two weeks into its cross-country journey. HitchBOT was vandalized in Philadelphia overnight on Saturday after exploring parts of Massachusetts...
Aug 2, 2015
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Human-like robots could be the next big platform
Business Insider - Cadie Thompson
Downloading apps on your own personal robot may become as common as downloading apps on your smartphone. Robot makers Jibo and Blue Frog Robotics are creating social robots that are aimed at living with...
Jul 19, 2015