Developers of driverless systems can apply now for permits to test cars.
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Nice jibe at Boston Dynamics, they are only uhh the best legged robot lab in the world. Google didnt have a clue what they were doing when they bought Boston Dynamics, and thankfully getting sold now before they did anymore damage to it.
I Have a brilliant idea, lets force them to work on wheeled robots LOL đ.
Alphabetâs sale of a robotics business to Japanâs Softbank shows that CFO Ruth Porat is taking aim even at the companyâs most advanced technologies.
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Robot arms have come a long way since the 1960âs when George C. Devol and Joseph Engelberger created the earliest industrial models. Those had two-finger grippers that, in retrospect, look fit to pluck a rubber ducky out of a bin in a carnival game, but nothing too sophisticated.
By now, robots in factories and warehouses can adjust their grip like human hands, or use suction and pliable materials to move objects wherever they need to go. Problems arise, however, when objects are porous, tiny, or need to be placed with great precision, as with materials handling in textiles, food, automotive and electronics manufacturing.
A startup called Grabit Inc., based in Sunnyvale, Calif., gets around problems with robot dexterity and grip by employing âelectroadhesionâ to move different materials. Yes, thatâs the force that lifts strands of your hair away from your scalp when you rub a balloon on your head.
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Project Dragonfly is a feasibility study for a space mission to another star. It is conducted by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies I4IS. The goal is to send a robotic spacecraft to another star, in order to explore exoplanets, other star systems, the interstellar medium and discover potential life.
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When people post their emotional responses to social media and through their free email account(s), they are loading their human personal emotional responses, judgments, and biases into a large computer and cloud database? Everything we post and respond to is data somewhere. The truth is, hundreds of millions of people around the planet do this every day, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Are we uploading our brains to a cloud on a supercomputer and evolving into an artificially intelligent machine? This question and moreâŠ
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Thereâs been a few thousand comments between the various releases of the video too. Itâs great to see so many people considering a Federal Land Dividend as a way to live and thrive in a challenging future tied to widespread automation, transhumanism, and AI: https://www.facebook.com/NowThisFuture/videos/1600120853362422/?fref=mentions
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Should of gone to an American defense contractor, but at least it gets out from under the mismanagement of the silicon valley lunatics.
Hereâs a surprise turn of events: Softbank â maker of the friendly Pepper robot and a major M&A player in the tech world â has just announced that it is acquiring two more robotics companies from Google owner Alphabet as part of its own deeper move into the field: it is buying Big Dog developer Boston Dynamics and the secretive bipedal robotics firm Schaft.
A spokesperson for Softbank has confirmed to us that the terms of the deal are not being disclosed, but we will try to find out.
âToday, there are many issues we still cannot solve by ourselves with human capabilities,â said Masayoshi Son, Chairman & CEO of SoftBank Group Corp., in a statement. âSmart robotics are going to be a key driver of the next stage of the Information Revolution, and Marc and his team at Boston Dynamics are the clear technology leaders in advanced dynamic robots. I am thrilled to welcome them to the SoftBank family and look forward to supporting them as they continue to advance the field of robotics and explore applications that can help make life easier, safer and more fulfilling.â
Arlan Robotics is developing a robot just for adults, and yes, you know what that means.
The Service Droid (now a crowdfunding project on Indiegogo) started life as a personal project by Arlan Robotics, created out of curiosity given the complete lack of quality male âtoysâ on the market. What the company claim to have created is an incredibly realistic droid that when assembled looks, smells, feels and moves like a real human.
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What is the ultimate goal of Artificial General Intelligence?
In this video series, the Galactic Public Archives takes bite-sized looks at a variety of terms, technologies, and ideas that are likely to be prominent in the future. Terms are regularly changing and being redefined with the passing of time. With constant breakthroughs and the development of new technology and other resources, we seek to define what these things are and how they will impact our future.
Could AI soon diagnose cancer? New system that âdoctors can rely onâ is 93% accurate in identifying tumours.
- US firm IBM says its Watson system is capable of accurately identify tumours
- The computer crunches through medical images and patient records quickly
- It compares them to past cases and medical journals to come to a conclusion
- Doctors at 55 hospitals around the world have been using the AI to help them
By Richard Gray for MailOnline
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