These Bipedal Robots Have Better Balance Than Most Humans
These robots look spindly, but they’re built to have incredible balance. The post These Bipedal Robots Have Better Balance Than Most Humans appeared first on Futurism.
View ArticleSweet Dreams Are Made of This: A Guide to Urban Living in the 80s [INFOGRAPHIC]
There's one thing about the future that we can be sure of: whatever predictions we make for it will fail miserably. Still, it's amusing and instructive to speculate, and in that spirit we present a...
View ArticleMeet Salto: The Most Vertically Agile Robot To Date
A team of roboticists from UC Berkeley have just unveiled a small robot that is arguably the most agile one ever made. Salto, short for saltatorial locomotion on terrain obstacles, which weighs 100...
View ArticleTypes of AI: From Reactive to Self-Aware [INFOGRAPHIC]
New advances in computing power have facilitated the evolution of artificial intelligence from simple, reactive machines to something approaching the self-aware. Here's a look at the current state of...
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Automation and Robots Could Permanently Disrupt Capitalism
Automation is Real Many articles that talk about automation and its resulting job displacement may sound alarmist. However, studies have shown that automation will disrupt labor, especially industrial...
View ArticleA Timeline of Future Space Exploration: Part 2 [INFOGRAPHIC]
Space exploration has come a long way since the first primitive satellites—we've visited all the canonical planets, and laid the groundwork for the next stage of discovery and colonization. A new, more...
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Survey Reveals Nearly 50% of Americans Favor a Universal Basic Income
Promising Support A small study was recently conducted to get an idea for how Americans feel about a universal basic income (UBI), a no-strings-attached, unconditional income given to individuals. The...
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Goodbye, Delivery Man. 7-Eleven Just Delivered 77 Packages by Drone
7-Eleven and startup Flirtey are changing the way deliveries are done. Since completing the first 7-Eleven delivery by a Flirtey drone in July, the pair has “completed 77 autonomous drone deliveries to...
View ArticleThis Robot Reaches a Staggering 20 Meters and Weighs Almost Nothing
Some experts at the Suzumori Endo Lab of the Tokyo Institute of Technology have just unveiled an engineering marvel. The extremely long robotic arm is not only getting all the buzz for its ability to...
View ArticleCoolest STEM Toys and Gadgets of 2016
These are the coolest STEM picks for the next generation of forward-looking kids—kids who are learning code as their second and third language before they lose their first teeth. Take a look at what...
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Westworld and AI: Experts Discuss the Future of Intelligent Machines
Sophia’s No Dolores…Yet. Remember that robot that freaked everyone out on the internet because it said it will destroy humans? That was Sophia—and she feels terrible about the whole thing. In any case,...
View ArticleUpgraded Legos Let Kids Code and Bring Designs to Life
Lego has debuted an exciting new sub-brand at the 2017 CES (Consumer Electronics Show) that is geared toward teaching children how to code. It’s called Boost and is meant for children aged seven and...
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Researchers Create New, Self-Healing Artificial Muscles
MUTANT MATERIAL? Scientists have managed to create a unique material that, they claim, is able to do what no other material can—act as an ionic conductor and at the same time, heal itself. The group of...
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It’s Big, it’s Robotic, and it’s Pretty Cool—Check Out This Giant Mechanized...
Giant Robotic Insect Remember that giant robotic exosuit—the one Sigourney Weaver used in her epic mêlée with the queen alien at the end of Aliens? Or all those giant robots that show up in just about...
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Blame Displacement of Jobs on Automation, Not Offshoring and Immigration
A New Wave of Automation As the world continues to achieve unprecedented levels of advancement in AI and robotics, we must, at the same time, come to terms with the fact that our fundamental...
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Meet the Drone That Can Deploy, Land, and Charge Itself
Applications for drone technologies have seen a quick rise lately. From Amazon Prime Air delivering packages to consumers to drones capable of delivering life-saving medical devices directly to the...
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Europe Looking to Make AI Kill Switch Mandatory
Electronic Personhood for Bots As they say, it’s nothing unless you have it on paper, and amid global buzz on the implications of advanced artificial intelligence and robots ushering in a new kind of...
View ArticleEngineers Have Made A Robot That’s Controlled by Brainwaves
A highly decorated young engineer, Marita Cheng, has developed an ingenious, easy to use robot that can help the disabled gain enhanced mobility. She, under her company Aubot, has created the...
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]
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