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Alphabet Just Sold Two Companies to a CEO Who Wants to Speed up the Singularity
Surprise Acquisition This week, Japanese electronics and robotics giant SoftBank, the company behind the Pepper robot, announced its acquisition of two robotics companies from Google owner Alphabet....
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Dubai’s Newest Addition to the Police Force: A Robot
Disclosure: The Dubai Future Foundation works in collaboration with Futurism and is one of our sponsors. Dubai is set to introduce the newest member of their police force: a 5-foot, 5-inch [165.1 cm],...
View ArticleSophiaBot Asks You to be Nice So She Can Learn Human Compassion
There have been some significant strides in robotics of late: for the first time, a robot performed surgery inside a human eye, Dubai has brought on a robot to its police force, and international teams...
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Truly Immersive “Teledildonics” is the Future of Intimacy
Next-Gen Intimacy Pornography entered the digital age alongside the internet in the early 90s. Since then, it has become (for better or worse) a staple of the web. It continues to be a dynamic industry...
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The “Chairless Chair” Allows You to Sit Anywhere
Two companies have developed an ergonomic, wearable “chair” that is designed to allow an individual to sit wherever and whenever they feel the need to rest. A German startup called Noonee, in...
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HEXA Is an Agile, Spider-Like Robot That You Can Program Yourself
Six Legs Can Be Better Than Two Consumer robotics company Vincross has introduced a new bot to the world, and people with entomophobia might want to steer clear of it. Click to View Full Infographic...
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A New Alexa-Like System Is Helping Robots Understand Context Clues
The Language of Context Unlike human communication, which involves a variety of nuances and subtleties, today’s robots understand only the literal. While they can learn by repetition, for machines,...
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A Stretchy New Superconductive “Skin” Can Give Robots a Sense of Touch
You Got the Touch A team of researchers from the University of Houston have created a new type of “skin” that allows robotic limbs to feel hot and cold. While still in development, it could potentially...
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New Synthetic Muscle Puts Us One Step Closer to Lifelike Robots
Making Muscle A group of researchers from the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science has developed a new type of synthetic soft muscle that can be manufactured using a 3D...
View ArticleIn Ten Years, Robots Could Replace More Than 4 Million Workers
Bots for Business Robots could replace human workers in up to four million jobs in Britain over the next decade, according to research conducted by UK market research firm YouGov on behalf of the Royal...
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A Chinese Robot Dentist Operated on a Human Patient for the First Time Ever
The Robot Will See You Now A robot dentist in China has successfully operated on a human patient without human input and, more importantly, without any harm coming to the patient. The South China...
View ArticleAfter 12 Years, Sony’s First Robotics Project Will Be a New Robotic Pet
The New Aibo Sony recently announced plans to re-enter the world of robotics with the creation of a new development team to help head its first project: a robotic pet dog. As reported by Nikkei earlier...
View ArticleThe International Robot Duel Is Set for October 17
Transform and Duke It Out Two years ago, a team of U.S. engineers going by the name MegaBots Inc. challenged their Japan counterparts, Suidobashi Heavy Industry, to a duel involving giant robots. After...
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New FDA Approved Tech Moves Us Closer to a Robotic Future
FDA Wants Life-Saving Robots Much negativity surrounds the public perception of our robot-ridden future. Indeed, sensationalist fears about thousands or millions of jobs undergoing ruthless robotic...
View ArticleSee One of the World’s Best Parkour Robots in Action
This robot can probably outperform you in parkour. The post See One of the World’s Best Parkour Robots in Action appeared first on Futurism.
View ArticleFor the First Time Ever, a Robot Was Granted Citizenship
Sophia of Saudi Arabia In an historic move for both human- and robot-kind, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia officially granted its first-ever robot citizenship. Sophia, the artificially intelligent and...
View ArticleFor the First Time, a Robot Passed a Medical Licensing Exam
A Robot Medical Professional Experts generally agree that, before we might consider artificial intelligence (AI) to be truly intelligent —that is, on a level on par with human cognition— AI agents have...
View ArticleThis Humanoid Robot May be Your Next Assistant
T-HR3 On November 20, Toyota revealed its latest humanoid robot, the T-HR3, which the company says “represents an evolution from previous generation instrument-playing humanoid robots,” according to...
View ArticleMagnetically-Controlled Organic Microbots Could Change Medicine in the Next...
Tiny Doctors Google’s chief engineer and notable futurist Ray Kurzweil has said that nanobots or microbots will flow through our bodies by 2030. While the technology could be life-changing, the...
View ArticleNew Artificial Muscles Lift 1000 Times Their Own Weight
Artificial Origami Skeletons Humans have soft muscles and rigid skeletons, and when exerted in optimal sync they have the potential to lift a fairly impressive amount of weight. But a new technique,...
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