New robot cops tackle traffic congestion
Bots are being used in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Well, I guess we can file this story under the “Didn’t see that coming” category: Two new robot cops have been put in place along the intersection of Boulevard Triomphal and Huileries Avenue in Kinshasa, part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for the sole purpose of easing traffic congestion.
Original art by Tuff Shake, commissioned for The Hollow Earth Insider
Amazots!
Now Amazon is in the robot business and, potentially, as a global network of autonomous delivery drones. This is really going to spell the end of the mail delivery person.
In an interview with Charlie Rose on Sunday’s episode of “60 Minutes,” Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos revealed the giant online store is developing a drone-based delivery service called Prime Air. According to Bezos, Prime Air would be able to get customers their products only a half-hour after they click the “buy” button. His “optimistic” estimate to “60 Minutes” was that Prime Air will be available to customers within 4 to 5 years. (Read the rest from Huffington Post)
Featured Image: THOR (Tactical Hazardous Operations Robot), a bipedal, electromechanical humanoid.Team THOR is a Track A participant in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. SOURCE: Team THOR.
The development of robots capable of operating in a melange of disarray and hazards will allow relief agencies to reduce the danger to disaster victims and first responders alike. This is the goal of DARPA’s multi-year Robotics Challenge, which in December will pit a variety of robots and software against a series of eight real-world tasks that might be encountered in actual disaster situations. . . Read Complete Report w/photos and videos.
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Featured Image: Shadow Dexterous Robot Hand holding a lightbulb. CREDIT: With permission of Richard Greenhill and Hugo Elias SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.)
From youtube uploaded by supecx macol on Jul 4, 2013
Featured Image: An image of an artificial heart exhibited at London science museum. CREDIT: rick proser SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons. (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.)
From Science Daily
Nov. 7, 2013 — A new device capable of pumping human waste into the “engine room” of a self-sustaining robot has been created by a group of researchers from Bristol.
Modeled on the human heart, the artificial device incorporates smart materials called shape memory alloys and could be used to deliver human urine to future generations of EcoBot — a robot that can function completely on its own by collecting waste and converting it into electricity. . . .Read Complete Report
Featured Image: Photography of Asimo imported on the site Flickr.com by user ‘AZAdam‘. SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. Public Domain)
As we continue to add documentation to our research file, “Robots Replacing Humans. . . EDITOR
Discovery News OCT 24, 2013 09:30 AM ET // BY TALAL AL-KHATIB
When considering the word “robot,” the first image that comes to mind is often a cold, metal machine, often performing a single or limited set of functions. A robot may possess appendages that resemble human anatomy, like an arm or an eye, but those are purely functional.
Some engineers, however, are trying to perfect robots whose function is to be more like humans. . . . Read Complete Report with cool slide show.
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Featured image: The Armed Robotic Vehicle (ARV) at the FCS National Mall Display 11 June 2008. CREDIT: U.S.Army. SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons (Public Domain)
From NBC News Nidhi Subbaraman 4 hours ago (10/21/13)
A proposal to pause the development of “killer robot” technology is seeing a surge of interest from robotics researchers as well as the representatives of key nations at the United Nations this month.
At a UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security side event Monday, mission delegates from Egypt, France, and Switzerland voiced an interest in regulating “killer robots” — completely autonomous weapon systems — in warfare. They are some of the first international voices backing ideas that the Human Rights Watch and Campaign to Stop Killer Robots have been championing for about a year. . . . Read Complete Report
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Featured Image: An android, or robot designed to resemble a human, can appear comforting to some people and disturbing to others. CREDIT: Gnsin SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons.(This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license).
From youtube uploaded by Endza50
Published on Oct 5, 2013
Boffins at Cambridge University want to set up a new centre to determine what humankind will do when ultra-intelligent machines like the Terminator or HAL pose “extinction-level” risks to our species. . . . From Description published with video.
Featured Image: ASIMO (2000) at the Expo 2005, a bipedal humanoid robot. CREDIT: Taken by Gnsin at Expo 2005, in Japan. SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons. (This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license).
Damn! There go the jobs many people thing will still be left for humans when they are replaced by robots in the not-to-distant workforce. . . EDITOR
From Space Daily by Larry Hardesty for MIT News
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 08, 2013
In 2011, when an MIT senior named John Romanishin proposed a new design for modular robots to his robotics professor, Daniela Rus, she said, “That can’t be done.”
Two years later, Rus showed her colleague Hod Lipson, a robotics researcher at Cornell University, a video of prototype robots, based on Romanishin’s design, in action. “That can’t be done,” Lipson said. . . . Read Complete Report
From youtube uploaded by MITNewsOffice
Published on Oct 3, 2013
Known as M-Blocks, the robots are cubes with no external moving parts. Nonetheless, they’re able to climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and even move while suspended upside down from metallic surfaces. . . . From the Description published with video.
