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Foxconn To Replace Human Workers With One Million Robots - IEEE Spectrum - 0 views

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    Foxconn, an electronics manufacturer from Taiwan with huge factories in China, generates about 40 percent of the global consumer electronics revenue by creating things like iPhones and computer components on giant assembly lines staffed by humans. Until recently, you'd probably never heard of Foxconn, but a series of worker suicides made us all take a hard look at where our electronics were coming from. Foxconn has made some improvements (including nets around tall buildings), but by all accounts, the core of the problem (the work) remains "repetitive, exhausting, and alienating." Yesterday, Foxconn announced (at an employee dance party of all places) that they're planning on buying some robots to replace their human workforce. And by some robots, they mean one million robots over the next three years. So for every one robot Foxconn currently has working at their manufacturing plants, they're going to buy a hundred more.
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Studying child-mother interactions to design robots with social skills | KurzweilAI - 0 views

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    University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University of California in San Diego (UC San Diego) are studying infant-mother interactions and working to implement their findings in a baby robot capable of learning social skills. The objectives are to help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics.
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Apple co-founder: Humans will be one day be pets for robots | DVICE - 0 views

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    On DVICE and other tech blogs, we're all always speculating which robot will emerge as the first real automated servant. According to Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, maybe we've got that backwards - maybe it's the robots who will have human pets.
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Virtual walkers lead the way for robots - tech - 06 August 2010 - New Scientist - 0 views

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    Given a few simple rules and some major computing power, animated characters adopt a human-like gait - and soon robots could too
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Robot arm punches human to obey Asimov's rules - tech - 13 October 2010 - New Scientist - 0 views

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    Powerful robots must know their limits to avoid injuring humans - and the only way to learn is from experience
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Low-cost robotic gripper replaces human hand and fingers | KurzweilAI - 0 views

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    The human hand is an amazing machine that can pick up, move and place objects easily, but for a robot, this "gripping" mechanism is a vexing challenge. Opting for simple elegance, researchers from Cornell University, University of Chicago, and iRobot have bypassed traditional designs based around the human hand and fingers, and created a versatile gripper using everyday ground coffee and a latex party balloon.
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Robots created that develop emotions in interaction with humans - 0 views

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    The first prototype robots capable of developing emotions as they interact with their human caregivers and expressing a whole range of emotions have been finalized by researchers.
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The Robot Revolution Is Upon Us Already | Plus Ultra Technologies/30 steps - 0 views

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    Humans and machines working together in the arts?  This is just the beginning!
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Building Gods Rough Cut - 0 views

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    "rough cut to the feature film about AI, robots, the singularity, and the 21st century"
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Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Computer scientists are developing machines that can teach people simple skills, like household tasks and vocabulary.
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Op-Ed Contributor - The First Church of Robotics - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    The concept of artificial intelligence clouds our view of the world.
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Aerogel To Improve Robotic Surgery - 0 views

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    Because the nanotubes have a large surface area , great amounts of energy could be stored in the aerogel, increasing the capacity of lithium batteries or supercapacitors used to store energy generated from renewable resources such as wind and the sun.
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Future Intelligence | Watch Free Documentary Online - 0 views

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    Catch a first-time glimpse at smart technology that will put android helpers in the home, network commuters and entire cities to the Web, and bring us entertainment systems that can virtually make dreams come true. Advances in artificial intelligence are creating machines with near human-like mental agility. Intelligence will be embedded everywhere - even in our clothing, thanks to smaller, more powerful computers. Soon, we will be able to build computers with artificial intelligence and processing power that rivals the human brain. Intelligence will be everywhere, in our clothing, our vehicles and homes. Intelligent robots will serve us - until they don't feel like doing so anymore. And what happens then…?
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Lasers could power drones in flight or launch rockets | KurzweilAI - 0 views

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    Researchers at LaserMotive have devised a way to beam lasers to power military bases and drones, possibly helping to save lives, since delivering fuel to battle zones can be a dangerous task in wartime. Although still largely in the R&D stage, laser power beaming has many other potential uses, which include powering vehicles, replacing electric power wiring and transmission lines in difficult places, and even launching rockets into orbit. The beam is about 8 inches wide as it leaves the transmitter - and then spreads wider as it travels. The beam emitter is located at a ground-based unit and operated by a person, who could control it from the same location or remotely from an entirely different place altogether. The operator uses the machine to fire the laser beam at a photovoltaic collector located on an unmanned autonomous vehicle (UAV), small plane, or helicopter. The current range of the system is about a kilometer. When the laser hits the photovoltaic device, the photons in the light beam are converted to electricity to fly the AUV. Topics: AI/Robotics | Energy | Physics/Cosmology | Survival/Defense
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