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Drinks-On With The World's Biggest, Baddest Bartending Robot
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How Close Are We To Living In The Star Wars Universe?
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Ocean Wave Movements Make For Much Better Conveyer Belts
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How A Robot Will Steal Your Job
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Will Robots Really Destroy Humanity? Gizmodo Interviews Jason Silva
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Toyota's New Human Support Robot Is The Robo-Butler Of The Future
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Drinks-On With The World’s Biggest, Baddest Bartending Robot
At the Google I/O after party the other night, there was one bartender in particular that stood out. It wasn’t the drink he made, or the friendly chatter. It was more than he weighed several tons and could break you with the flick of the wrist. Meet the Makr Shakr.
Retail Employees Will Someday Be Replaced By This T-Shirt Folding Bot
Great news for anyone who’s ever felt ignored by snooty retail clothing store employees that seem more interested in what’s happening in their headsets than their customers. To celebrate its one year anniversary, ROS Industrial put together this highlight reel of its robots in action, including a bit showing this arm deftly folding a shirt.
The Most Impressive Lego Terminator Arm You’ve Ever Seen
Skynet comes across as a resourceful artificial intelligence. After all, if it’s clever enough to send someone back in time to wipe out an enemy before they’re born, it’s not hard to believe it could see the potential in Lego Technic when it comes to building an army.
Does This Acrobatic Robot Have Olympic Aspirations?
Besides a mastery of their limbs that lets them scamper over almost any terrain, animals — and humans — have the ability to jump over obstacles that are difficult to traverse. And that’s a skill that most robots are only just starting to learn.
How Jack Conte Made A Completely Crazy DIY Music Video From Scratch
Jack Conte’s “Pedals” music video is nuts. Holy crap, electronic music robot madness. But this is one of those situations where you have trouble deciding what’s crazier: the music video or the behind-the-scenes video describing how the music video was made. Be the judge for yourself.
This Sticky Quadrotor Can Literally Be A Fly On The Wall
In the not too distant future the world is going to be abuzz with quadrotors flying about making deliveries, monitoring traffic and spying on everyone: a skill this gecko-like craft is particularly adept at. Thanks to a special dry adhesive it’s able to stick and unstick from surfaces, letting it land and perch almost anywhere.
Printable Self-Assembling Bots Will One Day Be Our Affordable Minions
There seem to be two major camps when it comes to robotic research these days: those working to create the most capable and human-like robots with no concern over cost, and those looking to build useful robots but on the cheap. And the researchers at Harvard and MIT behind this printable inchworm, obviously fall into that latter category.
Getting Robots To Pick Things Up Is Actually Really Hard
Our hands are a pretty major feat of evolution (opposable thumbs! dexterity!), and it’s hard to artificially replicate everything they can do. Especially when it comes to super fine motor skills like picking up very flat, thin or small objects. As part of DARPA’s ARM program, iRobot and collaborators at Harvard and Yale are working on versatile robot “hands” that can bear significant weight while also producing subtler gestures.
