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Robot Humor: Search and Destroy
PAUL NOTH | The New Yorker
Pre-Cogs: Precognitive humans, their brain waves tapped by computers
Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" is a triumph--a film that works on our minds and our emotions. It is a thriller and a human story, a movie of ideas that's also a whodunit.
Roger Ebert | RogerEbert.com
TranscendentalProdco
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.
Dylan Love | Business Insider
ScreenShot | BusinessInsider
20/20 Vision
AutomationWorld
Dave Greenfield | AutomationWorld
How vision technologies are expanding industrial pick-and-place robotic processes as well as the robot market as a whole.
“In the next decade, the number of vision systems used by autonomous robots should eclipse the number of systems used by fixed-base robot arms ...
Quick Draw Robots
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Christopher Dickey | TheDailyBeast
The world may discover some hard truths this week at the amazing DARPA Robotics Challenge, a competition for the world’s next-generation machines.
Valkyrie and her fellow competitors—Chimp, RoboSimian, Hubo, Schaft and Thor—are at the center of a debate beset by distortions and spin on every side.
Robot Cops
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.
Killer Robots Choose Targets All By Themselves
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
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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.
20/20 Vision
AutomationWorld
Dave Greenfield | AutomationWorld
How vision technologies are expanding industrial pick-and-place robotic processes as well as the robot market as a whole.
“In the next decade, the number of vision systems used by autonomous robots should eclipse the number of systems used by fixed-base robot arms ...
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