Robots & Us: A Brief History of Our Robotic Future
• https://www.wired.comArtificial intelligence and automation stand to upend nearly every aspect of modern life, from transportation to health care and even work.
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Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Courts Are Using AI to Sentence Criminals. That Must Stop Now
• https://www.wired.com, Jason TasheaThere is a stretch of highway through the Ozark Mountains where being data-driven is a hazard.
Robots May Help Build Your Next Home and Fill the Labor Gap
• https://www.bloomberg.comThe future of U.S. homebuilding depends on more people like Cyndicy Yarborough, a 26-year-old former Wal-Mart clerk with no background in construction.
BIG BRO-BOT U.S. Navy funds development of robot surveillance system...
• https://www.thesun.co, by Jasper HamillBIG BRO-BOT U.S. Navy funds development of robot surveillance system which can spy on humans in incredible detail
Sir Tim Berners-Lee lays out nightmare scenario where AI runs the financial world
• http://www.techworld.com, By Scott CareyThe architect of the world wide web laid out a scenario where AI could become the new masters of the universe by creating and running multitudes of companies better and faster than humans
Chinese firm halves worker costs by hiring army of robots to sort out 200,000 packages...
• http://www.scmp.com, Sarah ZhengChinese firm halves worker costs by hiring army of robots to sort out 200,000 packages a day
DARPA will Artificial Intelligence use to overcome fake news...
• http://www.nextbigfuture.com, brian wangDARPA seeks to overcome the noisy, conflicting, and potentially intentionally deceptive nature of today's data environment through a program called Active Interpretation of Disparate Alternatives (AIDA).
Second-Order Consequences of Self-Driving Vehicles
• https://mishtalk.com, by MishBenedict Evans, a blogger who works for a venture capital firm that invests in technology, has an interesting article on the shift to electric and self-driving vehicles.
Robots Take Over Tedious Chore: Mowing Lawns
• dfw.cbslocal.com By Gilma AvalosIn Richardson, a robot is reporting for its first day on the job.
Underwater robot finds "Nessie"
• http://newatlas.com, David SzondyThe good news: The Loch Ness Monster has been captured on sonar by an underwater robot operated by the British division of Norway's Kongsberg Maritime. The bad news: "Nessie" is a prop from a Sherlock Holmes film that sank in the loch in 1969.
We Finally Know When the Giant Robot Duel Between the US and Japan Will Take Place
• motherboard.vice.com by Carl FranzenThe battle will take place in August 2017, over two years after the PR-savvy US robotics company Megabots issued its challenge to Japanese company Suidobashi, according to a new video.
Acceleration in projected growth of global robotics industry
• nextbigfuture.com Author: brian wangIn 2016, International Data Corporation (IDC) has identified robotics as one of six Innovation Accelerators that will drive digital transformation by opening new revenue streams and changing the way work is performed.
Linguists now working to replace human journalists with robots that can write the news
• http://www.naturalnews.com(Natural News) Can robots write our news? Researchers from the Media Management and Transformation Center (MMTC) at Jönköping International Business School mean to answer this question by launching a news site project that is entirely facilitated,
Meet Sally, the Robot Who Makes Perfect Salads
• bloomberg.com by Kate KraderChowbotics Inc. claims that its device can make a salad faster and more precisely suited to your caloric desires than a human can.
8 Advanced Robots Animal You NEED To See
• youtube.com8 Advanced Robots Animal You NEED To See
SALTO - Berkeley's Leaping Robot
• youtube.comRobotics at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded.
Advanced Robotic Bat Can Fly Like the Real Thing
• youtube.comUsing a custom-made silicon skin and articulated morphing wings, Soon-Jo Chung and researchers from UIUC created Bat Bot (B2), an autonomous flying robot that mimics the flight characteristics of real bats.
How humans will lose control of artificial intelligence
• http://theweek.com, Rick PaulasThis is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but with a paper clip. In this scenario, the designers of the world's first artificial superintelligence need a way to test their creation.
The Next Big War Will Turn on AI, Says US Secret-Weapons Czar
• newsbud.com by Defense OneThe first day of the next major conflict shouldn't look like war at all according to William Roper, who runs the Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office, or SCO.
The Next Big War Will Turn on AI, Says US Secret-Weapons Czar
• newsbud.com by Defense OneThe first day of the next major conflict shouldn't look like war at all according to William Roper, who runs the Pentagon's Strategic Capabilities Office, or SCO.
Meet SAM, Brick Laying Robot That Does The Work Of 6 Humans
• http://www.zerohedge.com, by Tyler DurdenIn the latest installment of our "Dear Bernie" series, posts intended to inform the Vermont Senator about the unintended, negative consequences of minimum wage hikes, we present SAM (Semi-Automated Mason), a brick laying robot designed and engineered
Domino's Will Begin Using Robots to Deliver Pizzas in Europe
• https://www.bloomberg.comStarship Technologies, the London-based company that has created six-wheeled self-driving delivery robots, will begin taking customers Domino's pizzas in Germany and the Netherlands.
Bill Gates, Hypocrite of the Year
Menckens GhostSure, they'll kill jobs. Like Microsoft Excel, they'll also create new ones.
Elon Musk has launched a company that hopes to link your brain to a computer
• Business InsiderElon Musk has launched a company dedicated to linking human brains with computers, The Wall Street Journal's Rolfe Winkler reported Monday.
Bill Gates, meet Ned Ludd. Ned, meet Bill.
• http://www.andykessler.comLudd was the 18th-century folk hero of anti-industrialists. As the possibly apocryphal story goes, in the 1770s he busted up a few stocking frames--knitting machines used to make socks and other clothing--to protest the labor-saving devices. Taking
DARPA Insider "We are on Verge of Cataclysmic Discovery"!*
• https://www.youtube.com, ReelTimes MediaDr. Robert Duncan speaks to a group of people about the advances in transhumanism. He specializes in artificial intelligence, robotics and redefining what humans will be in the future.
Self-Driving Uber With Passenger Involved In Arizona Collision
• zerohedge.com by Tyler DurdenIn the latest setback for the world's most valuable private company which in recent weeks has been reeling from multiple crises, on Friday a self-driving Uber vehicle was involved in a crash in Tempe Arizona, which left the Volvo SUV stranded on its
Robots could take over 38% of U.S. jobs within about 15 years, report says
• http://www.latimes.com, Samantha MasunagaMore than a third of U.S. jobs could be at "high risk" of automation by the early 2030s, a percentage that's greater than in Britain, Germany and Japan, according to a report released Friday.
Automated collision avoidance and driver assistance will help Tesla model 3 drivers ...
• nextbigfuture.com Author: brian wangDriver-assist hardware and software included in the Model 3 will make the $35,000 car 10 times safer than the average car.
Eythor Bender: Human exoskeletons -- for war and healing
• TEDEythor Bender of Berkeley Bionics brings onstage two amazing exoskeletons, HULC and eLEGS -- robotic add-ons that could one day allow a human to carry 200 pounds without tiring, or allow a wheelchair user to stand and walk.
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