Dumont had volunteered at Liberty Science Center on Tuesday to don a computer-controlled exoskeleton that can be remotely manipulated to debilitate joints, vision, and hearing and shared with the crowd what aging feels like decades before his time.
We Should Be More Afraid of Computers
Computer Fear Sophisticated Algorithms As sophisticated algorithms can complete tasks we once thought impossible, computers are seeming to become a real threat to humanity. Whether they decide to pulp us into human meat paste, or simply make our work completely unnecessary, …
Google’s Schafty Robot Dominates Pentagon Contest
WASHINGTON – It may not be the prettiest robot on the scene, but the angular blue creation from Google Inc’s newly acquired Japanese start-up is poised to secure more Pentagon funding to develop a creation capable of venturing into dangerous disaster …
Atlas Robot Gets Bullied
The most striking thing about this new version is the amazing balance Atlas achieves. You can even push Atlas violently with a hockey stick and hell maintain his balance. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR …
Skye Aero – Flying Drone Billboards
Skye Aero is a project to build 10-foot helium-filled balloons, with small propellers attached to give better control than your average blimp. It’s not a totally new design British band Muse has been using a fleet of similar drones on their …
Discovering Your Teaching Assistant Is A Robot
Unfortunately, there is not a way to edit submitted feedback, wrote JillWatson, one of nine assistants for the300-plus students. Since January, Jill, as she was known to the artificial-intelligence class, had been helping graduate students design programs that allow computers to …
Flying Hybrid Car
Terrafugia has said it will produce a fully working prototype of the TF-X Flying Hybrid Car, by 2018, with the hope of putting the vehicles on the market between 2024 and 2028. The company says the car shouldn’t be too much …
Watch the Atlas – A Mean Human
The most striking thing about this new version is the amazing balance Atlas achieves. You can even push Atlas violently with a hockey stick and hell maintain his balance. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR …
Pentagon Research – A ‘Brain Modem’ Reality
The tiny injectable machine could turn your noodle into a remote control. The Pentagon is attempting what was, until recently, an impossible technological feat developing a high-bandwidth neural interface that would allow people to beam data from their minds to external …