Will kitchen robots change the way we eat?
Imagine coming home from a particularly stressful day at work. You feel ravenous, so you put fresh ingredients into a...
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Why should my robot look like me?
If we want robots to do things that we as humans can’t, then shouldn’t robots look and function differently from...
DARPA envisions soldiers swarming with 250 robots simultaneously in urban combat
DARPA is envisioning a future of warfare where soldiers engaged in urban combat will interact with upwards of 250 autonomous...
Still a Long Way to Go: Technology is Not Yet Ready to Replace Humans As Elderly Carers – But it Sure Can Help
The world’s older population is growing faster than ever before. A report released by the United Nations shows that virtually...
Why raising the minimum wage is likely to result in high employment for robots
In developed nations around the world many workers are fighting for a raise for minimum wage in an effort to...
World’s largest electronics manufacturer may solve human rights violations by replacing workers with robots
The world's largest electronics manufacturer with a reputation for human rights abuses, Foxconn, looks to replace human workers with robots in...
Job-stealing restaurant robots fired for incompetence & the future of the workforce
The robots are coming (and going) when it comes to positions in the service industry after restaurants in China had to...
Controlling Creepy-Crawly Kamigamis – an Affordable Robot for Kids (Video)
Sociable’s George Chilton takes a look at a new educational robot for kids from Dash Robotics and talks about the...
BBC pushes its new iPlayer Radio site, blocks Google from indexing current site
The BBC has blocked search engines like Google & Bing from indexing its current iPlayer Radio site, as it migrates users to its new, feature-rich, site.
Is Twitter telling Google and Bing it wants to be indexed more?
A small changes to Twitter's Robots.txt file might mean that we're going to see more tweets in Google and Bing search results
With a friendly handshake NASA makes first contact with its space robot
NASA's Robonaut and International Space Station Commander, Daniel Burbank, shake hands - the first between a robot and human in space
Why is Google building driverless cars? #robots
Sebastian Thrun is an expert on AI, Artificial Intelligence, and he is on a personal mission. As director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab he was responsible for building Google’s driverless cars. His mission? To save a million people a year from dying on the road.
