Robotics and AI
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The pizza giant is turning to robotics, just like everyone else. Domino’s Pizza has formed a group called Domino’s Robotic Unit to collaborate with a London-based company, Starship Technologies, to deliver Domino’s pizzas to customers in Germany and the Netherlands. Starship, which was launched in 2014, gained fame when it created a line of six-wheeled […]
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The Disney corporation is notorious for embedding sexually-deviant content into its lineup of children’s programming. But this prolific cartoon and entertainment icon is reportedly taking its perversion agenda to a whole new level with the introduction of a humanoid robot concept for children that some experts warn could morph into a type of sex toy […]
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Automation has led to the loss of 670,000 manufacturing jobs between 1990 and 2007, confirms a new report published in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Authors of the study caution the U.S. local labor markets that this number is expected to rise as more industries transition to a more automated environment. This coincides […]
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With each passing day, the world seems to look more and more like a science fiction film. We are constantly developing new forms of medicine and technology, most of which didn’t even exist in our wildest dreams not long ago. Cell phones, for instance, were once nothing more than a concept routinely portrayed on episodes […]
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The new hip Amazon GO store, where customers can walk in, find what the want, and leave without ever waiting in line isn’t going anywhere for the moment. Verge.com reports that although the mega company had plans to open their flagship store in Seattle, Washington in late March of 2017, the technologies used to build the […]
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New York-based Construction Robotics has developed a bricklaying robot that can build walls six times faster than a human worker. The Semi-Automated Mason 100, nicknamed Sam, can lay up to 3,000 bricks daily compared with an average builder’s capacity of only 500 bricks a day. The robot Sam is made up of various parts including a […]
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A study by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers claims that robots and artificial intelligence could take over two of every five jobs in America within about the next 15 years. The results also suggest that technology will displace both white-collar and blue-collar workers, which could push wages downward. Employees in the finance, insurance, hospitality, manufacturing, food service, and transportation […]
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Bill Kochevar, 56, was left paralyzed from the shoulders down after a cycling accident severely injured his spinal cord. In the years since his accident, he had become completely reliant on his caregivers at the Cleveland VA Medical Center. But thanks to the help of a number of Cleveland institutions, the Navy veteran was able […]
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Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX boss, wants to hook up the human brain to a computer. Although the details aren’t fleshed out yet, as it were, Musk evidently bought Neuralink, a California medical research start-up company to develop the technology. While some might conclude this is science fiction, Musk has long warned that rapidly advancing […]
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Can robots write our news? Researchers from the Media Management and Transformation Center (MMTC) at Jönköping International Business School mean to answer this question by launching a news site project that is entirely facilitated, managed, and propagated by robots. The project, called DPer News (Digital Personalization of the News), comes with the support of the Knowledge […]
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Will humans one day be able to live forever? Google’s Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, thinks it’s a possibility. He says that living in a fleshly shell for eternity could become a reality as soon as 2029, when scientists are set to unveil special “nano-bots” that will supposedly be able to navigate throughout people’s bodies […]
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With all the end-to-end encryption built into their framework, smartphones are impenetrable, save for advanced backdoor hacking, right? Wrong. Computer security researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of South Carolina say that simple sound waves, when utilized effectively, can successfully hack not only smartphones, but also wearable fitness monitors like Fitbit and […]
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While polygraph tests tend to be accurate most of the time, what if there was a way to actually crawl inside of the mind, have a look around, and determine guilt that way? Now, thanks to a combination of brain scanning and artificial intelligence, that may just become a reality. (RELATED: Read about just how […]
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Postmates is a U.S. corporation based in San Francisco with a mission to allow “anyone to have anything your heart desires to be delivered on-demand.” The company was birthed in 2011 by three engineering and tech-savvy entrepreneurs, and has been nicknamed the “Uber for The Courier Industry” by Techcrunch.com. In pursuit of their mission, Postmates has hired, and still is hiring, a bevy […]
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Artificial intelligence may soon become a complete entity of its own and may even share fundamental rights with humans, according to Christopher Markou, a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge in the U.K. In an opinion piece, Markou argued that the 21st century will not only give rise to technological advancements […]
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