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I couldn’t write that title in any other way to make this more awesome. Researchers at The Institute for Dynamic Systems and Control in Switzerland, have designed some quadrocopter robots that fly, untethered, while detecting, and bouncing back some ping pong balls. I really could try and describe it but...
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The Love Sex Company in China has created a device suited to the modern man, simulating all the conveniences of a female cohabitant without that pesky free will getting in the way: A 5-foot, 5-inch doll that can move, talk, recognize faces, and yes, be an active participant in...
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Ruth Schulz and her team of researchers at the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology, have invented a type of robots that have been designed to develop their own language. What the robots have done so far, is simply to map out a region inside a room,...
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During what must have looked like a scene from iRobot, in Mountain View, California, a remote controlled robot, with a human face displayed on an LCD panel, stood in line at a coffee shop, ordered a scone, received it and left a tip. Most people’s reaction was to simply...
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Tired of the complexities involved in creating a robotic version of the human hand, a group of American scientists decided to think outside of the box....
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Australia’s Marathon Robotics has come up with a clever way to give soldiers realistic target practice: they have turned a bunch of Segways into robots that move and react like real groups of people. The robots, named Segway Rovers, can be programmed to act like enemy soldiers (called insurgents...