Foxconn Replaces Humans With 40,000 Robots. Apple supplier Foxconn has installed a massive 40,000 robots for handling manufacturing jobs at a number of its factories in China, claims a new report. The industrial robots — named “Foxbots” — are currently being rolled out at factories in Zhengzhou, Kunshan, Jiashanm and a “tablet plant” in Chengdu,…
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OpenAI Teaches An AI How to Speak Using Reddit
ONLY THE BEST FOR THE BEST Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI just received a package that took $2 billion to develop: NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang just delivered the first DGX-1 supercomputer to the non-profit organization, which is dedicated to “advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as…
The Most Realistic VR Experience – Cable
To date, cable-driven parallel robots have been used in production environments, where they meet high requirements. The systems surpass conventional industrial robots in size and payload by between one and two orders of magnitude. The end effector can be freely moved with high accuracy by up to eight cables and winches. Based on this technology…
Make Your Own Twitter Bot In 5 Minutes
Ever see a “bot” automatically (and eerily) answering questions on Twitter and wish you could make one yourself? Guess what? You can! There’s a Twitter bot that not only answers questions, it shares its source code – so you can copy it and make a creepy little assistant of your very own! @DearAssistant is a…
Scientists genetically 3D printed a biohybrid being, lifelike robots
Like most disruption, it started with a simple idea. Kit Kevin Parker, PhD, a Harvard professor researching how to build a human heart, saw his daughter entranced by watching stingrays at the New England Aquarium in Boston. He wondered if he could engineer a muscle that could move in the same sinuous, undulating fashion. The…
What will happen when robots become smarter than humans
Everything is going to change. World View The term ‘Singularity’ was first used in the technological sense (as opposed to its definition within physics) by Hungarian American mathematician John von Neumann. In 1958, he said “ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some essential…
This robot crawls and swims like a real salamander
The mad roboticists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have produced another biomimetic mechanoid — this one based on the lithe locomotion of the salamander. “Pleurobot” imitates the amphibian’s ambulation with its own articulated vertebrae, allowing it to slither along on land or at sea. “Animal locomotion is a very interesting interplay between the…
ARDUINO SIMULATOR PUTS YOU IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT OF A TOY CAR
As part of their final project at EDN – Navàs, robotics students Rafart Jordi and Marc Thomas recently built an impressive Arduino simulator that captures video from a camera-equipped RC vehicle and displays it on a TV screen, making it feel as though you’re in the driver’s seat of a shrunken-down car. The simulator is powered by an Arduino Uno along with an IBT-2 H-Bridge…
Boston Dynamics made a giraffe robot
[wpdevart_youtube]tf7IEVTDjng[/wpdevart_youtube] Boston Dynamics — the (for now) Alphabet-owned company behind BigDog and other impressive machines — has just unveiled its latest robot: SpotMini, an all-electric, smaller version of its Spot robot. One notable change: the ‘bot can now be equipped with an elongated neck, which it shows off in a demonstration by helpfully picking up a glass…
Robot surgeons might soon replace humans for complicated procedures
Anyone who has either gone under the knife or who has had someone close to them go under the knife can readily attest that the entire surgical process is harrowing. Even when the primary objective of an operation goes smoothly, the risk of problematic complications always looms overhead. It’s no exaggeration to state that the…
Elon Musk wants to build a robot that does your housework
After bringing electric cars to the masses and taking people to Mars, Elon Musk’s next goal is to design a robot to do your chores. Musk and some of the other leaders of the nonprofit artificial intelligence group Open AI jointly announced that they are “working to enable a physical robot … to perform basic…
Here’s what cities will look like in 30 years
Ian Pearson, a futurologist with an 85% accuracy track record, helped put together a report on what we can expect in the year 2045. Pearson compiled the report with Hewden, a construction equipment rental company, that shows “what can we expect to see over the next 30 years in the construction industry.” With advents in fields…