This Robot Cop Could Bring Disabled Officers Into The Field
• popsci.comYou're a loose cannon, RoboCop. Hand in your gun and badge and robot arms.
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Robots and Artificial Intelligence
How An NYU Team Built And Tested A Flying Jellyfish Robot
• popsci.comA peek inside the university's fluid dynamics lab, where researchers re-imagine flying machines
A Mind-Controlled Robotic Hand With A Sense Of Touch
• popsci.comGetting closer to lifelike
Google Buys AI Startup, Hires Ethics Board To Oversee It
• popsci.comSo we're good! Nothing to worry about here. Move along.
Robotic Gas Pumps Are Coming Soon
• popsci.comForget pumping yer own gas--let the robots do the work.
Google Rumored to be Pulling its Team From the DARPA Robotics Challenge
• http://www.popsci.com, Erik SofgeAccording to a source who has participated in the Pentagon-funded DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), Google is pulling its team from the competition.
Xombie Rocket Diverts Itself To New Landing Pad
• space.comNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tested its G-FOLD divert algorithm experimental landing system aboard the Masten rocket in Sept. 2013. This algorithm allows the rocket to autonomously select an alternate landing site.
Robots May Replace One-Fourth Of U.S. Combat Soldiers By 2030, Says General
• http://www.popsci.com, By Kelsey AthertonBe all the cyberman you can be.
Humans to be put out to pasture in favor of robot farm workers
• dvice.comThe quiet life of a farmer is under assault, and has been for quite some time.
Robotic probe to awaken for comet rendezvous, landing
• ReutersAfter a 10-year journey, Europe's Rosetta spacecraft is due to end its hibernation on Monday and prepare for an unprecedented mission to orbit a comet and dispatch a lander to the surface.
Guy Hoffman: Robots with "soul"
• ted.comWhat kind of robots does an animator / jazz musician / roboticist make? Playful, reactive, curious ones. Guy Hoffman shows demo film of his family of unusual robots -- including two musical bots that like to jam with humans.
Prosthesis human-piloted racing robot aims to usher in a new sport
• gizmag.comWho wouldn't want to slip into Iron Man's armor or try out the gigantic Jaegers that saved the world in the movie Pacific Rim?
Some crazy person just gave robots their own Internet
• dvice.comWell, they've finally gone and done it, folks. Scientists have doomed us all. In one fell swoop, a small team of think-for-yourselfers based in the European Union (EU) has given robots all the tools they need to rise up and crush humanity.
Meet the Man Google Hired to Make AI a Reality
• Wired.comTo create one of those 3-D holographic images, you record how countless beams of light bounce off an object and then you store these little bits of information across a vast database.
Coffee-filled robotic gripper becomes a commercial product
• http://www.gizmag.com, By Ben CoxworthBack in 2010, we first heard about a clever device known as the robotic universal jamming gripper. With its business end composed of a party balloon filled with coffee grounds, it could form a secure grip around objects of varying sizes and shapes.
http://www.dvice.com/2014-1-14/jpls-robosimian-advances-darpa-robotics-challenge-finals
• http://www.dvice.com, Colin Druce-McFaddenNASA entered two custom-built robots in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC): Valkyrie and RoboSimian.
Planning For A Future Of Robot Ships
• popsci.comThe technology is getting there, but the law is the real obstacle.
Moving robot surgery from labs to hospitals
• nanowerk.comWhat if, in a few years from now, human surgeons were only needed for the most delicate operations, leaving more common tasks to robots?
The cyborgs era has started
• nanowerk.comMedical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects:
Pentagon looks to the next 25 years of robot warriors
• gizmag.comLast month, the US Pentagon pulled out its crystal ball and released a report that presents a blueprint of what it sees as the future of military robots over the next quarter of a century.
Moon Rovers Planned for Commercial Lunar Exploration Project
• http://www.space.com, by Laura PoppickThe commercial spaceflight company Golden Spike – which aims fly private missions to the moon by 2020 – has teamed up with the New York-based firm Honeybee Robotics to design robotic rovers for the planned lunar expeditions.
Grégoire Courtine: The paralyzed rat that walked
• ted.comA spinal cord injury can sever the communication between your brain and your body, leading to paralysis. Fresh from his lab, Grégoire Courtine shows a new method -- combining drugs, electrical stimulation and a robot --
Why Robots May Be the Future of Interplanetary Research (Op-Ed)
• space.comDoug Turnbull, a hard-science fiction writer whose majority of books, novellas and short stories confront problems faced by early settlers of other worlds, contributed this article to SPACE.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
Military drones set to get stronger chemical weapons...
• http://www.dailymail.co, By Sarah GriffithsMilitary drones set to get stronger chemical weapons and could soon make their OWN decisions during missions
Bitcoins, Quantum Computers, and Robot Dinosaurs...
• http://www.wired.com, By Daniela HernandezBitcoins, Quantum Computers, and Robot Dinosaurs: WIRED’s Top Business Stories of the Year
Of Her and Humanoids: The Year in Robotics
• http://www.popsci.com, By Erik SofgeFollow robotics closely enough, and every year seems like a big year.
Watch This Freaky Gyro Cube Balance Perfectly, Defying Gravity
• http://www.wired.com, Kyle VanHemertAll Google wants for Christmas is a bunch of scary ass robots.
John Deere Tango E5 robot lawnmower
• http://www.which.co,Robot lawnmowers - more time to relax?
Google's Schaft robot wins Darpa rescue challenge
• bbc.co.ukA robot developed by a Japanese start-up recently acquired by Google is the winner of a two-day competition hosted by the Pentagon's research unit Darpa.
Scientists create Terminator-style muscle at 1,000 times human strength
• http://rt.comAmerican scientists have developed a robotic muscle 1,000 times more powerful than a human’s – using a revolutionary material that fluidly changes its properties.
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