Humans have long been fascinated with the idea of robots — human-like robots. It’s been 50 years since Isaac Asimov, an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, devised his famous Three Laws of Robotics* — a set of rules designed to ensure friendly robot behavior. Isaac Asimov imagined a futuristic world in Read more…
Robot That Learns and Thinks for Itself Advances the Rise of the Self-aware Machine The rise of “self-aware” robots has come a major step closer following the invention of a machine capable of thinking for itself from scratch, scientists have said. Engineers at Columbia University claim to have smashed one of the Read more…
Author Mac Slavo The Central Intelligence Agency made six remote-controlled dogs as a part of their MKULTRA “behavior modification” or mind control program. Using brain surgery, newly requested documents show that the dogs were “field operational” and controlled by human beings. The CIA marked the 65th anniversary of the launch of Project MKULTRA. Read more…
Robots are coming to a Walmart Inc. near you, and not just as a gimmick. The world’s largest retailer is rolling out 360 autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in some of its stores in the U.S. by the end of the January, it said in a joint statement with Brain Corp., which Read more…
HRP-5P Is A Heavy Labor Capable Humanoid Prototype Robot Researchers have developed a humanoid robot prototype, HRP-5P, intended to autonomously perform heavy labor or work in hazardous environments. As a 182 cm, 101 kg humanoid robot, HRP-5P was built on HRP series technologies by incorporating new hardware technologies. Within the Read more…
Robots Will Soon Match Humans in Creativity, Emotional Intelligence As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about when it comes to artificially intelligent machines being able to perform many tasks faster and better than humans can, potentially stealing our jobs in the future and presenting what some technologists Read more…
Watch Tiny Robots Swim Through an Eyeball to Deliver Medicine Although the mere thought of a swarm of microrobots burrowing into an eyeball is enough to make some people squirm, scientists believe tiny, controllable delivery vehicles could be the future of eye medicine. Now, researchers have developed a tiny, rotini-shaped Read more…
Robots to make robots at ABB’s new $150 million factory in China ZURICH (Reuters) – Robots will make robots at a new ABB (ABBN.S) factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said on Saturday it plans to build for $150 million in Shanghai as it defends its place as Read more…
Groundbreaking Moment as a Robot Closes the NY Stock Exchange The UR5e robot arm from Universal Robots is the first “cobot” to ring the NYSE bell, marking the rapid growth of collaborative robotics within the industrial automation market. Last Wednesday, Oct. 17, traders on the floor of the New York Read more…
JAPANESE SPACECRAFT DROPS ROBOT ONTO ASTEROID TO HUNT FOR THE ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM ‘A land full of wonder, mystery and danger! I landed on asteroid Ryugu!’ A robot has been successfully dropped onto an asteroid millions of miles from Earth – and will now hunt for the origin of Read more…
The Future Of Farming Is Robots SAN CARLOS, Calif. (AP) — Brandon Alexander would like to introduce you to Angus, the farmer of the future. He’s heavyset, weighing in at nearly 1,000 pounds, not to mention a bit slow. But he’s strong enough to hoist 800-pound pallets of maturing vegetables Read more…
Robotel: Japan hotel staffed by robot dinosaurs The reception at the Henn na Hotel east of Tokyo is eerily quiet until customers approach the robot dinosaurs manning the front desk. Their sensors detect the motion and they bellow “Welcome.” It might be about the weirdest check-in experience possible, but that’s Read more…