Watch As the First Human is Tattooed By An Industrial Robot
Here at Futurism, we’ve featured robots gardening, bagging groceries, and surgically stitching a grape, so it’s not much of a surprise when we hear about a robot giving a human a tattoo. French...
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This Remarkable Robo-Octopus is Heading to an Ocean Near You
Scientists at the BioRobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy have developed a soft-bodied robotic octopus that swims, crawls, grasps, and basically does whatever a live octopus...
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Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 1: The 10 Most Remarkable Startups
Never before has a startup’s pursuit for innovation been more important. Y Combinator facilitates an event where ideas and concepts actually have an opportunity to be brought to life with the support...
View ArticleScientists Just Made A Tiny Robotic Caterpillar That’s Powered By Light
Soft robotics is a field that not too many are familiar with, but it has led to the creation of some stunning robots. Far from the large and rigid clunkers that are the public face of robots (think:...
View ArticleLowe’s Debuts Its Autonomous Robot Assistant: The LoweBot
While there have been mishaps in integrating robots into everyday human life, it seems like these bots are here to stay. In fact, more and more stores and businesses are employing robot workers. Add...
View ArticleThis Dummy Bag Will Help Make the NFL Safer
A robotic tackling dummy is changing how football players practice. The post This Dummy Bag Will Help Make the NFL Safer appeared first on Futurism.
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We’re Heading to Mars! NASA’s InSight Lander Set to Launch in 2018
An Expensive Delay There are plenty of reasons to explore Mars, as it is quite similar to Earth in terms of structure. That’s why NASA planned to launch the Interior Exploration using Seismic...
View ArticleThe Rise of the Planet of the AI: Should We Fear the Future?
From Elon Musk to Stephen Hawking, individuals around the globe are calling for caution and warning about the potentially dangerous pitfalls of artificially intelligent systems. And no wonder. It seems...
View ArticleLowe’s Has a New Retail Robot
The LoweBot is here to ensure your next home improvement project goes smoothly. The post Lowe’s Has a New Retail Robot appeared first on Futurism.
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This Eerie New Drone Comes With Spider-Like Grasping Arms
The proliferation of drone technology has certainly been beneficial to users, albeit while annoying some others. One manufacturer is about to start producing the next evolution of the technology. At...
View ArticleThe Age of Bionics: Paralyzed Pregnant Woman Completes the Great North Run
You Go Girl! Claire Lomas of Leicestershire, England has just completed the Great North Run, the biggest half marathon in the UK, despite being both paralyzed and 16 weeks pregnant. Wearing a bionic...
View ArticleThe Atlas Robot’s Balancing Act
This robot has better balance than some humans do. The post The Atlas Robot’s Balancing Act appeared first on Futurism.
View ArticleBrick by Brick, This One-Armed Robot Is Revolutionizing Housing
While it has long been expected that 3D printing will revolutionize the construction industry, companies are looking at a host of other technologies that will allow us to build the homes of the...
View ArticleCyberlegs: The New Prosthetics That’s Helping Amputees Walk
This robotic prosthetic understands its wearer on a new level. The post Cyberlegs: The New Prosthetics That’s Helping Amputees Walk appeared first on Futurism.
View ArticleRobots Have Learned to Pool Their Experience to Acquire Basic Motor Skills
A Robot Hive Robots, for all their helpfulness in performing tasks that we would rather not do (usually because those tasks are dangerous or boring), first need to be coded in order to do the work....
View ArticleBio-Robots: Animal-Inspired Machines
They can swim, squirm, wriggle, walk, fly, leap and slither—the blueprints for our most promising robots don't arise from the fertile brains of scientists at all. They come from the infinite variety...
View ArticleThe Laws of Robotics [INFOGRAPHIC]
Technology leaders like Elon Musk have already sounded the alarm about the potential danger of AI. To prevent a robot takeover, experts are writing a brand new rulebook. Here are the laws Isaac Asimov,...
View ArticleNothing Teaches a Robot Like Another Robot
Cloud robotics is changing the way robots learn. The post Nothing Teaches a Robot Like Another Robot appeared first on Futurism.
View ArticleThis “Self-Healing” Thread Can Alternate Between Firm and Flexible
From Firm to Flexible and Back Again People creating robots, orthopedics, and advanced medical devices now have a new material with which to work as researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de...
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Understanding Machine Learning [INFOGRAPHIC]
The post Understanding Machine Learning [INFOGRAPHIC] appeared first on Futurism.
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