If an artist offered their steady hand to perform life-saving surgery on you, would you allow it? What if that artist were actually a robot? Turns out, the skillset required for painting and that required for surgical cuts have more in common than we thought.
Desertification isn’t something we understand particularly well, yet – meaning we don’t really have any idea of how to stop it. It’s a pretty serious environmental problem…and one inventor has found what may be the first step to a solution: Tumbleewed, a rolling robot.
The day when soldiers have to risk their lives to transport supplies might be at an end. Lockheed Martin has recently completed testing on the world’s first autonomous convoy; a driverless collection of heavy-duty military vehicles equipped with advanced AI. So, yeah. Basically, robot trucks.
Robots seem to be everywhere these days. They’re in our factories, our schools, our homes, and now they’re even in our theme parks. Over in South Korea, a futuristic new theme park is being built. The theme? Robotics, of course.
Google acquired AI startup Deepmind for around $500 million earlier this week. Cue a media frenzy about Google’s plans for its burgeoning robot army; about how machines of Chrome might put us out of work. Is there really a threat of unemployment, or could Google have something else in mind?
What’s that buzz . . . tell me what’s happening? While the Internet of Thing’s clarion call has awakened the early
adopters, many of us still have it on snooze alarm. We may have seen
bits and pieces of it, like those that have popped up as apps on our
mobile devices. Perhaps we’ve recently purchased a Smart TV — or have
recently been intrigued by Nest’s Thermostat [after Google plopped down a hefty $3.2 billion to acquire it].
So remember how I said writers might soon be replaced by machines? Apparently, it’s already happening. A PhD student at MIT has created an artificial intelligence capable of analyzing the work of famous poets and creating new works which could have been written by said poets.
Today, I’m writing a post which is more than a little uncomfortable for me. After all, I’m dealing with the notion that I might someday be obsolete. AI is improving more with each passing day; pretty soon, we might see a whole host of news-bots, designed to deliver stories right to your screen.
Over the last ten years, Google’s foray into the smartphone market has established its Android phones as a viable
competitor to Apple’s iPhones. However, in the years to come, mobile
revenues will be more or less chump change in comparison to the returns
Google will be able to derive from robots and artificial intelligence.
Many of the distant planets researchers want to know more about aren’t really great for wheeled probes. In order to pore over the surface of thes worlds, scientists have to get a little creative. Take researchers in London, for example, who just developed a robot based on the superhero Spider-Man.
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