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Foam-copter is the world’s first flying 3D printer
A new micro-arial vehicle can use a foam extruder to 3D print objects while flying, opening up a wealth of possibilities in portable creation and repair.
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Origami robot folds itself into finished form and scampers off
In the dystopian future, robot armies won’t need assistance from us puny humans — or even other machines — to finish building themselves. Just like this Harvard/MIT prototype, their parts will be...
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Asus graphics cards production no longer requires humans
According to Asus, every single graphics card in use today has been manufactured with the help of one or more human workers. But that is no longer the case. Asus has figured out […]
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Microbot Push robotic finger automates all the things!
The IoT revolution is well under way, and there are now thousands of ways to automate your home. Microbot Push offers a decidedly different take: it’s like a connected finger that can turn […]
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Foxconn has replaced 60,000 workers with robots
Foxconn has been designing robotic arms for use in its factory for years, but the precision wasn’t good enough for them to fully replace workers until now. In one of its factories, Foxconn […]
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Chinese robot parks your car for you and uses 40% less space
Finding parking can sometimes be the hardest part of getting someplace, but perhaps that won’t be the case in the future. Yeefung Automation Technology, based in Shenzhen, is developing a robot that...
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Logitech wants you to pay $100 for a big button
Logitech has plenty of keyboards, mice, speakers, and headsets that they’ll sell you for a hundred bucks. Now they want you to pay that much for a big ol’ button. To be clear, […]
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Take A Peek Inside a Robot Pizza Factory
Just to clarify, that’s a pizza factory staffed by robots. Not a factory owned by the Donbot that’s making pizzas out of old robots to send someone a message. You’ll have to go […] The post Take A Peek...
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Will Robots Take Your Job? Calculate the Risk Online
On the surface, rapidly advancing artificial intelligence seems cool. But bubbling underneath is a frightening future, in which grinning robots hand out pink slips to human workers. Just how likely are...
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The Robot Apocalypse Has Already Started
You probably heard things are going pretty bad. While people don’t agree on much these days, we all know stuff at least looks bad. Where it’s climate change, the sudden uptick in global […] The post...
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GE CEO Calls BS on Job Automation Fears
The idea that factories will be run by robots in five years is “bullshit,” according to outgoing General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt. It will probably take at least six or seven years. Joking […] The post...
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Amazon Is Looking For A Few Good Robots To Stuff Boxes
On August 2nd, Amazon will hold a job fair at two of its U.S. warehouse locations. They’re making a major push to enlist additional staff. When the dust clears, Amazon hopes to hire […] The post Amazon...
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This Robot Can Sew T-shirts as Fast as a Crew of 17 Humans
We all know the robot revolution is coming and that it’s going to impact a huge number of jobs in pretty much every industry you can name. Factory workers who sew clothing, for […] The post This Robot...
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11 Hysterical Robot Fails
There’s nothing funny about the impending robot revolution—the day artificial intelligence becomes dominant over humans, and computers take over the planet. It’s pretty hilarious, though, watching the...
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Fetch Tries to Make Automated Warehouse Robots Happen
Our world is becoming more automated. You can embrace it. You can ignore it. Or you can fear it and the subsequent robot apocalypse. But it is happening. And one of the places […] The post Fetch Tries...
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Automation Will Leave One-Third of Americans Unemployed by 2050
One-third of American men between the ages of 25 and 54 will not be working by 2050, according to Darrell West. During a forum to debut his new book, West painted a bleak […] The post Automation Will...
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This Amazing Machine Can Cook And Assemble 100 Delicious Burgers An Hour
Welcome to the future, burger lovers! The massive roboticized contraption you see before you is the next big thing in culinary automation. You may have read about burger-flipping robots, but this...
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Researchers Build Customizable Soft Exosuit for Rescue Workers
The field of robotics isn’t limited to humanoids and android pets: Engineers are building soft exosuits to protect rescue workers and enhance quality of life for the disabled and elderly. Harvard...
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Study: 25 Percent of U.S. Workers at Risk of Job Automation
The robot revolution is coming. A new report from the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings Institute calculates automation’s “sizable” impacts on the future of the American workforce. It won’t be...
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Robots Have Disassembled 700,000 Rockets for the U.S. Military
There are two kinds of tasks that most humans will gladly hand over to a robot: those that are incredibly repetitive (and monotonous) and those that are incredibly dangerous. That’s precisely why the...
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