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Jul 18, 2017
Japan’s Ridiculously Cute Floating Camera Bot Is Now Operational on The ISS
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: drones, robotics/AI, space travel
You know that creepy black sphere used as a floating interrogation droid in Star Wars? It seems like scientists at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) pretty much designed the complete opposite of that, and we want one for our very own.
Called Int-Ball, this adorable little camera drone resembles something Pixar might have come up with, but it’s totally real, and is now a floating companion to astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) – where it helps out by taking photos and recording video, freeing up valuable astronaut time.
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Jul 18, 2017
‘Suicidal’ security robot ‘drowned itself’ at Washington office
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, security, transportation
July 18 (UPI) — Officials at a Washington, D.C., office building patrolled by a security robot they are investigating after workers reported the robot “drowned itself.”
MRP Realty announced last week there was a “new sheriff in town,” namely a K5 security robot developed by Silicon Valley startup Knightscope, but Bilal Farooqui, a worker at the office complex, tweeted a photo Monday revealing the mechanical guard had met with a watery end.
“Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself,” Farooqui wrote alongside an image of the robot horizontal inside a fountain. “We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots.”
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Jul 17, 2017
Japan just created an amazing new space robot
Posted by Brett Gallie II in categories: drones, robotics/AI, space
Japan’s space agency has released photos and videos taken on board the International Space Station (ISS) by its grapefruit-sized robot drone. The drone, called Internal Ball Camera (or Int-Ball), can be maneuvered by controllers and researchers from Earth, according a press release from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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Jul 17, 2017
This restaurant hired robot waiters to serve you your food
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: food, robotics/AI
Jul 17, 2017
This Google robot is cool but also terrifying
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
Jul 16, 2017
AI Creates Fake Obama
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: augmented reality, internet, robotics/AI, virtual reality
Artificial intelligence software could generate highly realistic fake videos of former president Barack Obama using existing audio and video clips of him, a new study [PDF] finds.
Such work could one day help generate digital models of a person for virtual reality or augmented reality applications, researchers say.
Jul 16, 2017
Estonia becomes the first country in EU to approve delivery bots
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
Read about ‘Estonia becomes the first country in EU to approve delivery bots’ on element14.com. Estonia and a number of other countries are ready to embrace delivery bots; other places not so much. Will these adorable bots be rolling down a street.
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Jul 16, 2017
Will SpaceX become the world’s biggest telecoms provider? Probably
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: drones, Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space travel
(This is a followup post to three earlier posts on forecasting. The first in May 2015 forecast both blimp-based and dedicated building-based drone deployments (later patented by Amazon); The second in October 2015 largely predicted Elon Musk’s Tesla Masterplan Part Deux by 9 months, the third in July 2016 among other things correctly hypothesised the use of Model X falcon wings for future possible Tesla bus designs. I try to get it right but I mainly enjoy the idle speculation).
I was recently in San Francisco and had a very random number of drinks with two very friendly employees of US telco AT&T. As is often the case I turned the conversation towards autonomous vehicles, and more specifically two of Elon Musk’s companies, Tesla and SpaceX.
I was curious about how cars, such as a Model S, have much greater data connectivity needs than ever before. Right now, Teslas connect to AT&T’s network and it seems clear that data needs will only increase for data hungry vehicles that drive themselves. Already Tesla cars consume quite a few gigabytes of data per month.
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