Humanoid Robots
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Let the Robots Take Over
Robot replacement is just a matter of time. This upheaval is being led by a second wave of automation, one that is centered on artificial cognition, cheap sensors, machine learning, and distributed smarts.
Imagine that 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow. What would they all do?
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One of the most important people in the world of robotics isn't a conventional roboticist at all, but the science fiction author Isaac Asimov.
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Meet Cody, a robotic nurse , and HERB, the Home Exploring Robot Butler, and Hector, who can remind patients to take their medicine, help locate eyeglasses and...
Yes, Robots Tell Lies!
With America growing grayer by the year because of the aging Baby Boom generation, the health care industry needs more elderly care workers.
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Our encounter with an all-too-convincing robot.
When asked point blank if she was a real person, or a computer-operated robot voice, she replied enthusiastically that she was real, with a charming laugh. But then she failed several other ...
Robots for Consumers
The question posed: "What emerging technology today do you think will cause another big stir for the average consumer in the same way that the home computer did years ago?: Gates answered: "Robots, pervasive screens, speech interaction will all change the way we ...
Thinking Machines
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To See how far virtual reality will actually go, we visited Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab.
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Cognitive computing systems learn and interact naturally with people to extend what either humans or machine could do on their own. They help human experts make better decisions by penetrating the complexity of Big Data.
Cognitive computing systems use image and speech recognition as their eyes and ears to understand the world and interact more seamlessly with humans ....
Virtual Reality. It's Unreal!
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Robot Chats ... from Space
Footage released on Thursday shows the first humanoid robot in space making small talk with the commander of the International Space Centre ...
I Feel Like Someone's Watching Me
Japan's robot astronaut Kirobo has performed its first mission at the International Space Station
Kirobo is holding a series of conversations with a Japanese astronaut and keeping him company.
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It can be quite startling at times when you turn to see a robot looking over your shoulder as you work.
Humanoid Robots: It's a She
ARMAND VALDES | Mashable
I saw my boss' face featured prominently on the iPad's screen, whizzing around the office.
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The overall goal of the DRC is to help drive innovation towards robots that are able to take over from humans directly, without needing any special accommodations. In that context, a human form makes sense because we're humans, and these robots will be doing the jobs that we don't want to be doing because they're too dangerous.
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Rethink Robotics
Baxter can learn tasks after being shown how to do them once.
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