Posts Tagged ‘robot’

A Giant US Retail Corporation Just Filed a Patent For Autonomous Robot Bees

Like an episode out of Black Mirror, Walmart has filed a patent for autonomous robotic bees, technically called pollination drones, that could potentially pollinate crops just like real bees. The drones would carry pollen from one plant to another, using sensors and cameras to detect the locations of the crops. First spotted by […]

Robot racism: Bias extends to humanoids, study finds

Researchers sought to examine whether we ascribe race to robots based on the color of the materials they are made with, and whether this leads us to project racial biases on robots. “We examined if people automatically ascribe a race to robots such that we might say that some robots are ‘White’ while others are […]

Robot’s Rubik’s revenge: Cult cube torn asunder in lightning fast solution bid (VIDEOS)

If you too have experienced this rage, you’ll undoubtedly enjoy watching a robot try to solve one so fast that the distinctly-colored cube explodes. Finally, justice for enraged cube players everywhere. READ MORE: Done in 60 seconds: Skydiver solves Rubik’s Cube in freefall jump (VIDEO) The device, built by engineers Ben Katz and Jared Di […]

Can A Robot (Artificial Intelligence) Have A Soul? Can It Have Consciousness?

Next Story The existence of the soul has been written and contemplated on since the beginning of time. The idea that there are multiple components which make up a human being that are non-physical in nature is nothing new. Can we prove the existence of the soul? Not really, but if we look into studies […]

Burger Flipping Robot Starts First Shift at California Restaurant

Caption Flippy, a burger-flipping robot, has begun work at a restaurant in Pasadena, Los Angeles. It is the first of dozens of locations for the system, which is destined to replace human […]

More melted fuel found at Fukushima 7 years later: Underwater robot captures images that prove at least some of the fuel breached the core

(Natural News) It has been seven years since the worst industrial disaster in all of human history happened in Fukushima, yet its devastating effects are still being felt to this day. As a matter of fact, experts have just discovered that more melted fuel can be found at the site, and that […]

You CAN clone yourself – in about 20 years, according to Microsoft; a “robot second-self” will act as a digital extension of your consciousness

(Natural News) In 20 years, humans will have robot doubles containing digital copies of their consciousness. That’s the future envisioned by Microsoft executives Brad Smith and Harry Shum. According to the two men, artificial intelligence (AI) alter egos are inevitable. This is just one of the predictions they’ve outlined in their book, “The […]

China planning to send robot sub to sunken ship

AP — China is preparing to send a robot submarine possibly followed by divers to explore and plug holes in a sunken Iranian oil tanker whose 32 crew members are all believed to have died, the Transport Ministry said Wednesday. No timeline was given from the deployment, although the Shanghai Maritime Search and Rescue Centre […]

GM Drops the Steering Wheel and Gives Robot Driver Control

GM Drops the Steering Wheel and Gives Robot Driver Control January 12th, 2018 Via: Bloomberg: Next year, General Motors Co. will no longer need an engineer in the front seat babysitting the robot brain that controls its self-driving Chevrolet Bolt. The steering wheel and […]

Scientists Have Created a Shape-Shifting, Cell-Sized Robot That Could Change the World

Renegade Editor’s Question: What could possibly go wrong? By Jake Anderson Scientists have taken another step in manipulating the microscopic world by creating a cell-sized robot that is capable of delivering electronic, photonic, and chemical payloads. The nanoparticle, which has been described as a kind of muscle or ‘exoskeleton,’ is capable of conducting electricity, sensing thermal changes in […]

What Did Andrew Anglin Get for Christmas? A Trump Robot

Andrew was a good Shill this year, and for that he received a very special gift. Andrew Anglin has deceived his troll army that President Donald Trump is sympathetic to the “Rahowa”. When Trump is in the White House, white people can commit crimes in Trump’s name, it’s okay, Trump will bail out his army. (I […]

Saudi Arabia Granted Citizenship to a Robot & Now ‘She’ Is Calling for Women’s Rights

Renegade Editor’s Note: I hate how we inevitably fall into the trap of calling a robot dressed up as female “she”. It is an it and always will be. I will not respect its preferred pronouns. By Alanna Ketler Earlier this year the kingdom of Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to an artificial intelligence robot named […]

Saudi Arabia Granted Citizenship To A Robot & Now She’s Calling For Women’s Rights

Next Story Earlier this year the kingdom of Saudi Arabia granted citizenship to an artificial intelligence robot named Sophia. Sophia was created by Hanson Robotics, and it has been generally accepted that she was created to appeal to the audience of the Future Investment Initiative. AI ethicist Joanna Bryson, however, said in an interview with The Verge that the […]

Security robot taken off streets after allegations it was harassing homeless people in San Francisco

     Organisation that deployed the robot denies the intent was to disrupt those sleeping rough A security robot has been pulled from the streets amid claims the machine was harassing homeless people. The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals had deployed the robot to try and bolster security and reduce crimes, […]

Animal Shelter Tried to Use Security Robot to Scare Off Homeless People

Animal Shelter Tried to Use Security Robot to Scare Off Homeless People December 14th, 2017 Via: The Verge: An animal shelter in San Francisco has been criticized for using a robot security guard to scare off homeless people. The San Francisco branch of the […]

Israel Has Built a Robot Army

By Darius Shahtahmasebi As Israel prepares for yet another war directly on its border, the truth about Israel’s vast military capabilities has been largely absent in the corporate media. However, if one were to be fortunate (or unfortunate) enough to be able to travel to Israel’s border with Syria in the north and the […]

Digisexual Robot Pimps, Swamp Chess, Hollywood & DC Cannibalism: Boiler Room EP #137

Tune in to the Alternate Current Radio Network (ACR) for another LIVE broadcast of ‘The Boiler Room’ tonight 6:00 PM PST | 8:00 PM CST | 9:00 PM EST for this special broadcast. Join us for uncensored, uninterruptible talk radio, custom-made for bar fly philosophers, misguided moralists, masochists, street corner evangelists, media-maniacs, savants, political animals […]

UK: Teenager slashed 7-year-old girl’s throat in playing field ‘to prove she was not a robot’

     A teenager who killed a seven-year-old girl in a park has been given a life sentence and ordered to be detained for a minimum of five years by a judge who said it was a ‘truly exceptional case’. Katie Rough died after she was smothered by the 16-year-old girl, who cannot be named and […]

U.N. considers "killer robot regulation" to prevent Terminator robots from exterminating humankind

(Natural News) The idea that artificial intelligence (AI) is soon to invade every facet of human life – including the theater of war – has become all too real at the United Nations. A U.N. panel, recognizing that the development of AI technologies is now moving at breakneck speed, recently advised that international regulations be […]

Friend or foe: Will Toyota robot aid or challenge humans? (VIDEO)

T-HR3 is the car manufacturer’s third generation humanoid robot. Bearing a likeness to the highly intelligent machines in Hollywood blockbuster ‘I, Robot’, the device is controlled by a secondary “master maneuvering system”. The robot was built to explore how AI might be used to facilitate heavy lifting in disaster-stricken areas, construction sites, as well as […]

Robot-controlled vehicles could soon be restocking military front lines with ammo, food, fuel

(Natural News) The British Army has conducted an initial test of its new line of robotic vehicles during a scheduled exercise in Michigan in the United States. Driverless robotic all-terrain 4x4s were run by unseen British soldiers using Xbox controllers as the Ministry of Defence told the public on Tuesday, November 14 that it will […]

Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Does Backflip

Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Does Backflip November 17th, 2017 Via: Boston Dynamics: <!– –> <!– AD CAN GO HERE […]

Ex-Google engineer says he’s ‘in the process of raising a robot GOD’ that will take charge of humans

Source: Daily Mail An ex-Google engineer who has registered the first church of AI says he is ‘raising a god’ that will that charge of humans. The robot god will head a religion called Way Of The Future (WOTF), which will eventually have a gospel called ‘The Manual’, rituals and even a […]

Sex Robot Has Traumatic Experience At Technology Festival And Is Forced To Retire Many Body Parts

It has not been a great day for Samantha the sex robot: The blonde-haired, blue-eyed doll worth over $4,000 was reportedly inappropriately groped by sex-hungry men at the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria. Her inventor, Sergi Santos, shared that “she was heavily soiled” by the men. Santos added that two fingers were broken whilst they were mounting Samantha’s […]

Robot automation can fill grocery orders in minutes, dramatically reducing reliance on human workers

(Natural News) U.K. online grocer Ocado used to take about two hours to put together an order of 50 items for a customer. A human worker would go around and collect the various meats, produce and dairy products the customer requested and put the order together manually. Now, however, they’ve found a way to get […]

Saudi Arabia Is The First Country To Grant Citizenship To A Robot…..Sophia The Humanoid Robot That Once Said Would ‘Destroy Humans’

An empty-eyed humanoid named Sophia has become the first robot to be granted citizenship in the world. Saudi Arabia bestowed citizenship on Sophia ahead of the Future Investment Initiative, held in the kingdom’s capital city of Riyadh on Wednesday. “I am very honored and proud of this unique distinction,” Sophia told the audience, speaking on […]

Saudi Arabia grants citizenship to humanoid robot (VIDEO)

News of Sophia’s citizenship was announced at the Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. “I am very honored and proud for this unique distinction,” Sophia said in an interview with moderator Andrew Ross Sorkin. “This is historical to be the first robot in the world to be recognized with a citizenship.” Sophia […]

Watch astronauts repair ISS robot arm in daring spacewalk (LIVE)

Expedition 53 Commander Randy ‘Komrade’ Bresnik and ISS flight engineer Mark Vande will be replacing a motor that malfunctioned on the device used to move supplies and undock spacecraft. The large grappling mechanism, known as the Canadarm2, recently experienced an issue with one of its motorized latches. READ MORE: Happy 60th birthday, Sputnik! How USSR launched […]

Scientists develop Terminator robot "super strength" material that could allow military hunter-killers to strangle you to death

(Natural News) It seems as though the more we experiment with robotics, the more the classic 1984 film Terminator becomes something much more than just a fictional story produced in Hollywood. Scientists today have found ways to develop robots that can speak and think in ways eerily similar to those of real human beings, robotic […]

19 Year Old Builds Robot Lawyer, Overturns 160,000 Parking Tickets

In his second year at Stanford University, London born Joshua Browder created DoNotPay, the “world’s first robot lawyer.” The program, coded solely by Browder, has overturned 160,000 parking tickets in 21 months across New York and London.  Working at no charge, for free, saving people a total of $4 million in fines, DoNotPay swiftly revolutionized […]

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