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06/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Singing robot aids human-robot interactions

A Californian researcher built what is essentially a robotic caroler. According to a NanoWerk article, the singing robot can detect people with heat sensors, approach them, and make cute noises or even break into song. Named ROVER, the singing robot is the work of Hannah Wolfe, a graduate student in the Media Arts and Technology course at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB). She […]

03/21/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Custom furniture built by robots makes carpentry safer

Every day, carpenters risk their fingers and hands. Some regard the fact as a necessary sacrifice to deliver personalized and artistic products. Others react like the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the MIT team who designed robots to do dangerous carpentry tasks like sawing and chopping, reports ScienceDaily. The AutoSaw program directs the robots. […]

08/03/2017 / By JD Heyes

BIG BROTHER ROBOTS: Roomba pursuing plan to share 3D maps of your private home with Google, Apple and Amazon

Everywhere you turn these days, new technology seeks to undermine both constitutional guarantees and basic assumptions of privacy, when you would normally and reasonably expect that you’re not being spied upon. After all, it’s one thing to put your entire life online in a series of social media posts; that happens by choice. But when […]

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