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7:00AM Chris Jacob | The ‘Haptic Cow’ may have recently won Sarah Baillie the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year Award, but did she ever consider the real cow’s feelings? Imagine the rush of emotions: Jealousy, relief, maybe even arousal. More »
Learn Your Way Around A Cow’s Rectum With A Robot
7:00AM Chris Jacob | The ‘Haptic Cow’ may have recently won Sarah Baillie the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year Award, but did she ever consider the real cow’s feelings? Imagine the rush of emotions: Jealousy, relief, maybe even arousal. More »
Robots
Warning: Robots Have Learned Deception, Will Kill Us All
1:40PM Dan Nosowitz | Not to get all alarmist with you people, but a group of robots in Switzerland have learned to lie to each other about the location of an object representing food, which almost certainly means we’re all going to die. Soon. More »
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Robot Baseball Players To Necessitate Man’s Fusion With Rhinoceros
11:40PM Mark Wilson | Unless you’re Mark Buehrle, it’s nearly impossible for humans to play a perfect game of baseball. But for robots, feats like batting 1000 are already a reality. More »
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Stanford Cart: When Robots Started Seeing In 3D
10:00AM Matt Buchanan | Terminators have night and infrared vision. But they had to start somewhere, right? In 1979, a robot at Stanford called Cart that was radio-linked to a mainframe tracked and navigated 3D obstacles using a sliding camera for stereoscopic vision. More »
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Robot Crawls Through Veins To
12:30AM Mark Wilson | A new robot, just one millimeter in diameter, can crawl through your veins to treat arterial blockage or deliver targeted medication. More »
Robot Crawls Through Veins To Kill Heal You
12:30AM Mark Wilson | A new robot, just one millimeter in diameter, can crawl through your veins to treat arterial blockage or deliver targeted medication. More »
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11:40PM Matt Buchanan | I’ll take six of the $US200,000 ramen-making robots Yoshihira Uchida built for his noodle shop Momozono Robot Ramen. The robot crafts completely customised ramen broth—there are over 40 million flavour possibilities you can configure. Mmmmm. More »
Momozon Robot Ramen: 40 Million Ramen Flavours Made By A Robot
11:40PM Matt Buchanan | I’ll take six of the $US200,000 ramen-making robots Yoshihira Uchida built for his noodle shop Momozono Robot Ramen. The robot crafts completely customised ramen broth—there are over 40 million flavour possibilities you can configure. Mmmmm. More »
Games
Buy A Modded Guitar Hero Controller To Cheat At Fake Rocking
11:00AM Jason Chen | We’re big Guitar Hero/Rock Band fans, but buying a controller so that it can play the songs perfectly so that you don’t have to do anything? That’s taking it a bit too far. More »
Toys
MyDeskFriend Combines Facebook With A Little Robotic Penguin
7:00AM Jason Chen | Arimaz’s MyDeskFriend is a little penguin that rolls around your desk, has 5 moods, responds to physical input and connects to Facebook. I kinda want one. More »
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