Tag: Robots

Microsoft’s Holoportation is Every Star Wars’ Fan Fantasy

No doubt, one of the coolest scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy came when R2-D2 delivered a hologram of Princess Leia talking to Luke. Now, Microsoft has unveiled its own hologram technology that looks like right out of the Star Wars universe. It's called Holoportation, and it's about to be on every tech geek's holiday wishlist. Microsoft has been experimenting with their HoloLens for...

Seaweed-Based Material Could Replace Plastic in the Near Future

Plastic has become an omnipresent and practically unavoidable material, used to build or package the majority of products in modern society. Its invasive and indestructible nature (with an estimated lifespan of anywhere between 500 and 1,000 years), along with the fact that it is very difficult to recycle, has made plastic one of the biggest threats to the health of our planet. Around the...
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Robot Journalists Are Taking Over the Associated Press Newsroom

Those news articles that pop up in your Facebook feed about Coca-Cola's new business venture or the latest development in Middle East oil politics,...

A Robot Is About To Hitchhike Across Canada

There was a time in America's past where hitchhiking was a common thing. People in need of a ride and short on cash thought...

Engineers In Florida Have Just Created A Working RoboCop

Crime in the future is going to be a lot more difficult. Between flying police drones and a new RoboCop prototype created at Florida...

AI Tried to Create Inspirational Quotes, and it Went Hilariously Wrong

AI is a concept that both excites and terrifies us. Machine learning systems are set to revolutionize and streamline the way we live, work,...

Inside the Life of People Married to Robots

Zheng Jiajia is an engineer and a graduate of Zhejiang University. He is 31 years old and married to a beautiful young woman named...

Physicist Believes These Computers Could Make Immortality Possible

The famous Professor of Particle Physics, Brian Cox, is one of many scientists who believe we will soon be able to completely merge our...

Revolutionary Synthetic Muscle Brings Us One Step Closer to Lifelike Robots

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have just taken a big step towards making the movie Terminator a reality. They’ve made a breakthrough in the field...

Study Warns: Half of Our Jobs Will Disappear in the Next 25 Years

Although unemployment sounds like an inherently negative concept, an ideal, functioning government has to maintain a small percentage of unemployed workers at all times....

This Creepy Robot Said it Straight: She Wants to Destroy Humans

There is no getting around it. Humanoid robots are going to be our servers, coworkers and well, possibly our killers. Okay, maybe we are...

Inside OpenAI: Elon Musk’s Billion Dollar Project to Build AI for Everyone

In the race to develop artificial intelligence, one player is fielding an uncommon strategy. OpenAI, an initiative launched last December, sets itself apart from...