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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>…
RoboticsWatch 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 …
RobotsGoogle'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 …
Job InterviewsHanging out with the adorable Starship delivery robot
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.<p>It sounds weird, but some of the founders of Skype want to make it a reality. So Ahti Heinla and Janus Friis started a …
RobotsLowe's has a robot that speaks 7 languages and can help customers find anything in the warehouse
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.<p>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 …
Robots'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>‘Public alienation undermines scientific efforts to improve lives’ ‘Rogue scientists’ could exploit gene editing technology, experts warn<p>Machines …
SingularityWant 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 …
TransportationDutch 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 …
Double 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 …
RobotsSegway 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, Tech30) CEO Brian Krzanich demonstrated a hoverboard built by Segway -- the company that makes electric scooters for …
RobotsHow Soon Before Your Job Is Done By A Robot? This Handy Chart Will Tell You | Fast Company
McKinsey recently published research looking at the automation potential of 750 jobs, analyzing each across across 18 capabilities. It found that 45% of paid activities could be automated using “currently demonstrated technologies” and that 60% of occupations could have 30% or more of their …
This 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 "transforming, Internet-connected projection robot" as one company spokesperson explained to me. <i>Mashable</i> video producer Keith Hopkin and I joked (but …
RobotsGoogle'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 …
These giant robots will mine the ocean floor for gold, silver, and copper
Robot miners are gearing up to descend one mile to the bottom of the Bismarck Sea near Papa New Guinea. Their mission? To collect deposits of gold, silver, and copper.<p>The robots are being built by Soil Machine Dynamics, a manufacturer of subsea robotic vehicles, for Toronto-based company Nautilus …
RobotsDoes 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 …
RobotsRecommended Robot and AI Reads This Week
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 …
Machine LearningThis Weed-Destroying Farm Robot Is Going To Replace Farm Workers | Fast Company
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 field from satellite positioning and lidar measurements. It destroys weeds by poking them deep into the ground. And it has an 80% accuracy rate (so …
18 artificial intelligence researchers reveal the profound changes coming to our lives
Oli Scarff/Getty Images<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) has been changing our lives for decades, but never has AI felt more ubiquitous than now.<p>It seems …
I went to Best Buy and encountered a robot named Chloe — and now I'm convinced she's the future of retail
Chloe smiles and says thank you.<p>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 …
ShoppingAmazon is now using a whole lot more of the robots from the company it bought for $775 million
Remember Kiva Systems?<p>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>…
RobotsSix areas that artificial emotional intelligence will revolutionise
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Canada 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 …