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Robot HR Department
How to make your resume as robot-friendly as possible.
Most big companies use applicant tracking system (ATS) software to sift through online resume submissions.
Alan Taylor | Mashable
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May I take your order!
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Alan Taylor | The Atlantic
32 photos of robotic technology at the beginning of the 21st century, including robotic insurgents, NASA's Juno spacecraft on its way to Jupiter, and a machine inside an archaeological dig in Mexico.
Arachnophobics Beware
Adam shows off the special box and platform he built to tinker and calibrate the spider, and then sends it crawling around the pool table in his shop. It's not for the arachnophobic!
Check out his latest obsession, a robot spider with incredibly realistic movement.
Inside Adam Savage's Cave | YouTube
Press My Invisible Button
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Christopher Mims | Quartz QZ.com
The internet of things will become more central to society than the internet as we know it today.
The internet of things replaces the internet-related actions we already know—click a button, navigate a webpage—with context.
An invisible button is simply an area in space that is “clicked” when a person or object moves into that physical space.
Waitress has the Personality of a Robot
The endgame here is the so-called singularity—the point at which technological development, spurred by Moore’s Law and another generation or two of software and robotics development, is so sophisticated that humans have become irrelevant.
Blows My Mind
Hilary Hanson | The Huffington Post
A virtual sex simulator debuted in Japan.
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The device attaches a Novint Falcon—a grip-based, haptic controller—to a Tenga, a Japanese industrial masturbator. Used as intended, the user would insert his penis into the Tenga, which would be manipulated by the Falcon. All the while...
Robots Makes It Too Easy
Cory Doctorow | BoingBoing
Moshe Vardi discusses the possibility that robots will obviate human labor faster than new jobs are created, leaving us with no jobs.
If market economies can't figure out how to equitably distribute the fruits of automation, it might end up with an even bigger, even more hopeless underclass.
"... are we creating many things that are just too easy to do?"
Killer Robots Choose Targets All By Themselves
Automation has displaced a lot of workers in the last 50 years;
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Elizabeth Palermo | TechNews Daily
The report from the United Nations Human Rights Commission suggests that lethal autonomous robots need to be regulated.
Some of these machines — or "lethal autonomous robotics" (LARS), as they are called in the report — can allegedly choose and execute their own targets without human input.
I Feel Like Someone's Watching Me
It can be quite startling at times when you turn to see a robot looking over your shoulder as you work.
Robot Cops
ARMAND VALDES | Mashable
I saw my boss' face featured prominently on the iPad's screen, whizzing around the office.
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Each PackBot is camera-equipped and remotely controlled to allow operators to examine suspicious objects and explore threatening environments. The robots will work in tandem with thousands of soldiers who will be patrolling the 12 host cities in Brazil.
It's More than Moore's Law
To help keep the peace at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, FIFA has decided to go high-tech by enlisting military robots for security.
NIC HALVERSON | Discovery News
iRobot
What allowed robots to go from blind, dumb, immobile automatons to fully autonomous entities able to operate in unstructured environments like the streets of a city....
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Haomiao Huang | ARS Technica
Suddenly, the robotic future doesn't look so far off.
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