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Manufacturing Robot Baxter Doesn’t Want To Replace Human Workers
Rethink Robotics, founded by former MIT faculty and CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) director Rodney Brooks, who also …
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DARPA Is Making Transformer Robots
It’s been over a month since we last checked in with DARPA, which means it must be time for an …
A Real Life Power Loader From Aliens Isn’t Far Off
Exosuits are big in sci-fi right now. For all of the movie’s flaws, the metal frame that Matt Damon has …
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Guy Hoffman’s TED Talk Tackles The Task Of Making Robots Seem More Human
Even though it’s in the title of this TED Talk, “souls” is a bit misleading. What roboticist, musician, and actor …
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Extant Adds One More Cast Member And Talks About Robot Children
Even though many of us are already pumped for CBS’ upcoming sci-fi thriller Extant, we don’t know all that much …
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Drone Crash Near California Raises Concerns, Again
Secret stealth drones, French and Norwegian drones, spotlight-stealing German drones, Amazon delivery drones — the list goes on and on. …
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Robots Galore At This Year’s CES (Plus Doc Brown And A DeLorean)
I officially have a new entry on my bucket list — someday, I will attend CES, the Consumer Electronics Association’s …
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New Study Measures How Well Humans And Robots Interact
Robots: friends or foes? Companions or competitors? I’m not sure the debate will ever truly be settled, but one thing …
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DARPA’s Robotics Challenge Narrows The Field To Eight Finalists
DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, where teams compete to design and develop disaster response robots, kicked off in June, with the software-based …
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Two New Battle Of The Damned Trailers: Dolph Lundgren + Robots = Dead Zombies
I never thought I’d get to say these words, but here we go. The trailer below is red banded because …
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The Dutch Create The First Autonomous Flying Robot
Flying robots are nothing new (unless you’re Amazon), and neither, at this point, are robotic bees and remote-controlled cockroaches. But …
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Google Buys Boston Dynamics And Gets One Step Closer To World Domination
Google keeps up their steady march toward becoming an empire. Sure, there’s the search engine, gmail, Google Street View, and …
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Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s Superhero Robot
We’ve done lots of posts here on GFR about NASA, many of which bemoan the state and the budget of …
Man Becomes First Person To Be Officially Recognized As A Cyborg
Neil Harbisson has achromatopsia, a condition that prevents him from seeing color — for him, 50 shades of gray has …
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Robots Are Revolutionizing Education And Development For Autistic Children
Kids with autism or Asperger’s often struggle with social interaction, which can make conventional classroom learning extremely challenging and sometimes …
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This Superb Synthespians Poster Features All Your Favorite Robots And Then Some
I know what you guys are thinking: We’re a website with the word robot in our name and we never …
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Robots Go Gaga For Smartphones In This Quirky Short Film
If we’re to believe the majority of written and visual science fiction, then the future of this planet will come …
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Move Over, Jacques Cousteau—This Robot Turtle Investigates Shipwrecks
While drones and rovers are common in the robot-related headlines these days, robots are slowly but surely taking to the …
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This Killer Robot Isn’t Nearly As Intimidating Once You’ve Seen It Fall On Its Face
If you read this site on a regular basis, there’s a decent chance that you’ve spent more time than most …
TEDx Talk Shows How Robots Can Make The World More Physically Accessible
10 years ago, at the age of 40, Henry Evans suffered what many would consider their worst nightmare—a stroke that …
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Robots Run This Space-Themed Chinese Hotel
Okay, China. You win. A space-themed hotel is pretty badass, but staffing it with robots? Total genius. Given that most …
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Artificial Robot Heart Gets Its Power From Urine
We all know that urine does many things, from causing our bladders to ache profusely to powering up generators and …
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Japanese Robot Never Loses At Rock, Paper, Scissors
Well, the human race is screwed. The long list of tasks that robots can perform better than humans has an …
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Meet Dreamer, The Humanoid Robot Getting Screentime With Mark Wahlberg In Transformers
Robots can do most tasks humans can do, including making cameos in movies. I’m not talking about Haley Joel Osment …
Happy Meal Horror Short Serves Up Robots, Gore, And Fast Food
All we want as entertainment addicts is the occasional original idea to go along with all the retreads and sequels …
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Robots With Rifles Will Hit The Battlefield In The Next Five Years
Despite controversy about whether robots should be used to fight in wars, not just help with supply missions, development of …
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Remote-Controlled Space Robots Will Work Better When They Can See The Future
While remote-controlled robots are awesome and can do loads of tasks that are too difficult and dangerous for humans, there’s …
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Robotic Surgery May Not Be The Medical Revolution Doctors Initially Thought
Last year, a slew of articles and studies claimed that doctors who play video games become more skilled surgeons. The …
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Big Time Rush Plus George Lopez Plus Robots Equals La Vida Robot
‘Round these parts, we’re reluctant to admit that not all things are as cool as Robot Combat League, and that …
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