Since the earliest forms of science fiction, authors and futurists have dreamed of robots with cognitive abilities matching those of humans. The interactions of these machines with the world of people would come naturally for both sides. Conversations with robots of the future are often imagined as indistinguishable from normal human-human discussions, since the machines recognize the subtleties of language and [...]
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No Comments »As robots continue their drive towards world domination, its hard not to put the fear of being enslaved by machines aside at least temporarily and enjoy this amazing video of a LEGO robot solving a Rubik’s cube. Solving a standard 3×3 Rubik’s cube would be too easy though, so the makers of this video used [...]
If you’re not scared by this video, you need to re-watch iRobot. Sure, there’s innocent robot vacuum cleaners barely frightening enough to scare a cat. But put together a group of 20 mini-humanoid dancing robots at the Shanghai World Expo, and you’ve got the beginnings of world domination. According to Wired, each of the 2-foot tall Aldebaran [...]
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