The Dawn of Killer Robots
• by Connelly LaMar and Brian AndersonThe robots have always been coming.
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The robots have always been coming.
There's no shortage of robot-based toys out there which are claimed to be both fun, and teach your budding young roboticist the basics of programming.
Allusions to dystopian futures with robotic overlords are pretty hard to overlook. Just last week, a tragic accident where a young worker in Germany was killed by an industrial robot spurred cries of killer bots, and scientist Stephen Hawking and tec
As the arguments rage on about the coming artificial intelligence boon and the fact that robots will stand a more than 90 percent chance of taking over eight out of the top ten jobs that hire the most people in this country, now chief executives are
The key to better, tougher and more coordinated robots as well as improved surgical procedures, among other advances, could derive their inspiration from an unlikely source – the odd, square tail of the all-around strange seahorse.
Let the bot-on-bot action commence
Inspiration for the next big technological breakthrough in robotics, defense systems and biomedicine could come from a seahorse's tail, according to a new study reported in Science.
A thing you may not have known: the tail of a seahorse is a square prism rather than the typical cylindrical shape normally expected in tails.
Demand for industrial robots has increased dramatically in the manufacturing sector, and helped to overcome labour shortages
Because of course they do
Back in February, Anki gave us a sneak peek at Anki Overdrive, the second generation version of its robotic race cars.
A machine on an assembly line grabbed a worker and thrust him against a metal slab, causing lethal injuries.
Ludwig von Mises was a defender of the concept of the division of labor.
SparkFun's annual autonomous vehicle competition pushes the limits of cheap tech
Delphi Automotive have denied that that one of its prototype self-driving cars and a self-driving car operated by Google had a close encounter on a Californian road on Tuesday, saying that "the vehicles didn't even come close to each other".
Close call or self-driving cars doing their job?
"LARGE IMPULSIVE FORCES TO PENETRATE TISSUE"
Facial recognition software no longer needs to see your faceFacial recognition software no longer needs to see your face in order to recognize you, a development that has understandably spurred all sorts of anxiety among the privacy-conscious.
We've seen several computers recently that can teach themselves how to play Super Mario Bros. It's cool the first time, but the second time? Big whoop.
There's robotics and then there's microrobotics. The issue is when it comes to picking up objects "[most] robots use two fingers and to pick things up they have to squeeze."
It will send a chill down the spine of anyone who has watched a cockroach escape into a seemingly impossibly small gap.
MX3D, a Dutch R&D startup founded by designer Joris Laarman, plans to bring additive manufacturing to a new realm: structural engineering. Here's how.
BUT WE LOVE THEM ANYWAY
Almost 40% of Australian jobs that exist today could disappear in the next 10 to 15 years thanks to advances in digital technology.
Coming soon to a park near you ... if you live in Amsterdam
A solid 25 years after its release, people are still messing around with classic Mario games.
One of the 24 teams competing at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge, and the only team fielded by a large private company, was Lockheed Martin's Team Trooper and its robot Leo.
Larry Page and Elon Musk attended the most important robotics event of the year -- here's what it was like
A COMPANY HAS FIGURED OUT HOW TO LEVERAGE THE POWER OF UNUSED PROCESSORS FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
When Erik Sorto was 21, a gunshot wound left him paralysed from the neck down. Over ten years later, he was preparing smoothies for a room full of kids with brain injuries. For the past two years, Sorto's been trialling a neural implant that lets h