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Robots
In The Future, Robots Will Tell You How To Do Stuff, Silently Judge
11:30AM Adrian Covert | Pop Sci has a neat video of the Teamworkbot, a robot who can watch you attempt to carry out a task, then offer help when you’re doing it wrong. But I won’t lie…when you fail, Teamworkbot seems pretty intimidating. More »
Robots
OSP Robot Is Human Sized Roomba For Oil Spills
8:10AM Gizmodo US Edition | Designer Ji-hoon Kim has come up with an ingenuous idea for cleaning up oil spills. Using various features such as boom control modules, solar panels, oil protection boom, communication modules, boom connectors, and propulsion modules the OSP robots work together to surround an oil spill site with an inflatable barrier. Once the site has been contained the cleaning crews can easily remove the oil from the water. If saving the planet wasn’t cool enough, an OSP robot is actually the size of a grown human and a group of bots can easily be deployed via helicopter or boat. The only thing we can think of to make these bots better is a speaker that would play their slogan as they work, DEPLOY – UNITE – SIEGE. [Yanko Design] More »
Software
Russian Chat Bot Talks the Sexy Talk, Scores Chicks for You
12:34AM Wilson Rothman | A Russian website will soon offer CyberLover, a program that simulates chatroom flirting. The stated purpose is for nerds with no skillz, who can use it to talk to “up to 10 women at one time” and score some digits. Says the site: “Not a single girl has yet realised that she was communicating with a program!” It also said that the program could perform virtual sex online. Sure, it’s all fun and games—until someone loses a credit card number, says an Australian anti-virus software developer PC Tools. More »
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