Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category: Page 815
Dec 7, 2015
China Aims to Retool Its Manufacturing Industry with Robots
Posted by Phillipe Bojorquez in categories: economics, robotics/AI
China needs advanced robotics to help balance its economic, social, and technological ambitions with continued growth.
Dec 7, 2015
Life in the Robot Age: When We’re All Unemployed
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
“You’ll never get a good job, son, if you’re smoking pot all the time!”
That’s a scolding you won’t hear in the future. Besides the fact that pot smokers can become president, the future will not require you to get a good job. The traditional motivation to keep your mind orderly and bourgeois will be gone, so let your mind fly its freak flag and wander the Technicolor pathways already cleared by St. John of Patmos, Salvador Dali, and Carl Sagan.
In the near future, we may all be unemployed. We are entering what is generally called the “second machine age.” And, optimistically speaking, it may become the best thing that ever happened to the human being.
Dec 6, 2015
Could RoboBees Ever Take the Place of Real Bees?
Posted by Bryan Gatton in category: robotics/AI
Researchers are developing tiny flying robots that can do many things bees do — and even some things that they can’t. Could they serve as stand-ins for the real insects?
Dec 6, 2015
Beyond the Boundary — The Greatest Challenge: Manned Interstellar Travel
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
By Andreas M. Hein in Artificial Intelligence and Science Fiction. Beyond the Boundary: Exploring the Science and Culture of Interstellar Spaceflight.
Dec 6, 2015
From AI and data science to cryptography: Microsoft researchers offer 16 predictions for ’16
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, science
Dec 4, 2015
Leonardo da Vinci robot wows Tokyo crowd
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: robotics/AI
Watch the video Leonardo da Vinci robot wows Tokyo crowd on Yahoo News. Disaster relief humanoids on display at the International Robot Exhibition 2015, but Leonardo da Vinci steals the show. Jim Drury reports.
