Astrobotic Technology, a Carnegie Mellon University spinoff company, has created a full-size prototype of Polaris, a robot designed to search for ice at the moon's poles
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As part of the online web series Which Way Next, hosted by Singularity University, Vivek Wadhwa, VP of Academics and Innovation, sat down with Carl Bass, CEO at Autodesk, to explore some of the pivotal technologies coming online that promise to redefine the jobs available to humans in the 21st Century. Check out the video. 
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David Holmes: "A computer that can write like a human is a neat trick. But Moxie Awards finalist Narrative Science is taking the role of the robot journalist to the next level"... More on ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics Via The Digital Rocking Chair, Sandy Kumar
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Parag Khanna argues that we have moved into a new era called "The Hybrid Age," in which we are now a template for technology, "both the physical incorporation or biological, but also the psychological."
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High-tech implants will soon be commonplace enhancements under our skin and inside our skulls, making us stronger and smarter. Daniel H. Wilson on our 'superabled' future.
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"After my holographic terminator, my daughter asked me to build a robot for her. The result is shown in this video. It's real fun controlling Wall-E in the background using your phone while the child is interacting with the robot :-). I'm hoping the same technique could be used for example in therapy with kids that have trouble communicating with people. If anybody knows of a good use, please let me know in the comments or send me a message!" Via João Greno Brogueira
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Women walking in extremely high heels exert the same force on the ground as a strutting ostrich and researchers believe this finding could help improve prosthetic lower limbs and robots’ legs.
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Robots to see like humansUbergizmoWell, the science fiction movies that we have watched over the years showcase robots with intelligence that is far beyond what we can imagine and achieve today, with some even exhibiting this thing called emotion. Via Kalani Kirk Hausman
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A system first made for robot navigation could give blind people the equivalent of a Braille head-up display, according to French researchers. Two cameras mounted to a pair of glasses generate a three-dimensional image of a person’s environment and their place in it, displaying the information on a handheld Braille device.
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The robotic future is here, and it looks nothing like we thought it would. Instead of humanoid, highly-intelligent robots that do our bidding, the future is increasingly one of robotic swarms, robotic quadrotors, and tiny robots no larger than insects that perform surgery. The robotics revolution, in short, is fast, cheap and out of control Articles about ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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At NASA’s Astrobiology Science Conference held in Atlanta last week, visionary space inventor Bill Stone announced that he intends to get an autonomous six-foot by ten inch robotic cylinder called Valkyrie ready to visit the icebound sea of Jupiter’s moon Europa, cut through the icy crust, explore the waters below, and collect samples in the search of life. in 2011, Stone announced that NASA awarded his venture, Stone Aerospace, a four-year, $4M funding to continue development of the Valkyrie project, to design and field-test an autonomous ice penetrating cryobot.
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This video is an overview of the UMass Lowell Robotics Lab's research, including our work with multi-touch devices for robot control, telepresence, combining art and robotics, and student projects from undergraduate and graduate students. Articles about ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Soft, bendy robots could have a wide variety of benefits, from squishing into tight spaces to conduct surveillance, to crawling through a person's body to deliver drugs or take medical images. But it's hard to build entirely soft objects containing soft bodies, soft batteries and soft motors. A new version developed at MIT and Harvard is both soft and tough, inching around like an earthworm yet surviving multiple cruel blows from a rubber mallet.
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University of Granada researchers have developed an artificial cerebellum (a biologically-inspired adaptive microcircuit) that controls a robotic arm with human-like precision. The cerebellum is the part of the human brain that controls the locomotor system and coordinates body movements.
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Soon, we will be able to build computers with artificial intelligence and processing power that rivals the human brain. Intelligence will be everywhere, embedded in our clothing, our vehicles and homes. Intelligent robots will serve us - until they don't feel like doing so anymore. And what happens then...? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1277322/plotsummary
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A paper in 2009 by Sato et al. made some significant advances in the frontier of remote-controlled cyborg beetles. Specifically they were able to stimulate relatively specific neurons in these beetles to get them to initiate flight, and then were able to control the trajectory of the flying beetle by stimulating the muscles on either side of the beetle.
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Even for our greatest philosopher of the surreal, Sigmund Freud, reality remained rooted in the personal and social. A century on, however, technology is granting us the ability to alter our perception of reality, construct multiple representations of ourselves like avatars, and have relationships with artificial agents like robots. All of these are simultaneously expanding and destabilizing our sense of self. Via juandoming
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While the visitor keeps their eyes shut, a moving platform guides a pen in their hand to draw a self-portrait, using computer vision to track their face and generate a line drawing.
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Welcome to the brave new world of Machine Beauty, where our new willingness to replace our limbs with superior prosthetic devices hints at our technological future as a species. Maybe futurist Ray Kurzweil was right after all when he predicted the merging of man and machine within our lifetime as part of the great Singularity.
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Robot designed and built by Kenji Ishida and JS Robotics. Video was originally uploaded to Nico Nico Douga. Articles about ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Automation could run public utilities and transportation systems with amazing efficiency. But then there's the Big Brother part. Some worry that companies with huge contracts could run cities like 'digital tyrants.' Imagine trying to talk your way out of a parking ticket with a robot that has no empathy.
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A professor at Vassar College, Dr. Long and his team study real live sharks and their vertebral columns. They then takes these findings and design computer models and artificial vertebral columns to understand sharks' movement and biomechanics. Articles about ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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Every week Aaron Saenz will bring you a recap of the top stories from SingularitiyHub.com
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The researchers are working on creating robotic bees that fly autonomously and coordinate activities amongst themselves and the hive, much like real bees. The research team aims to drive research in compact, high-energy power sources, ultra-low-power computing and the design of distributed algorithms for multi-agent systems. Furthermore, the RoboBees created will provide unique insights into how Mother Nature conjures such elegant solutions to solve complex problems. Articles about ROBOTICS: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=robotics
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