Shimon is a robot with four arms – but instead of using them to crush the life out of humans, all he wants to do is jam on the marimba! Judging by his head movements, this artificial intelligence is pretty into the music! You might ask: why does a marimba-playing robot need an anthropomorphic head to wave around anyway? […]
Yesterday Apple announced a bunch of new products including the the handy little iPhone SE (6S spec in a 5S size), and a developer platform for healthcare apps called Carekit. Better, smaller, cooler – nothing really new or fundamentally groundbreaking – except for Liam. Liam is Apple’s new recycling robot, which carefully and quickly disassembles iPhones and […]
It’s reported that Google’s parent company Alphabet is selling the pioneering robotics company Boston Dynamics, less than three years after acquiring it in 2013. I’ve had some fun making jokes about Boston Dynamics, and the Terminator-style future suggested by their two and four-legged robots. Now it appears that the PR division at Alphabet actually took the creepy factor […]
This video is basically bad news for anyone who hopes for a future for humanity, free of robot domination. We’ve covered Boston Dynamics before. They’re the company developing extraordinary robots that can walk and even run. Google acquired them two years ago. This latest video shows an impressive bipedal robot that simply pushes open the door […]
Take a tablet, and give it the ability to orient itself: to twist in your direction when you speak, to recognise and track faces and use a speech interface. You’ve got a robot! It won’t make the tea for you, or clean the bathroom, but Jibo looks like it could be a real leap forward for a user interface […]
So Google is indexing all human knowledge, it knows where you are and what you want, and now it’s gone and bought this company which is developing creepy walking scary running robots for the US military. [youtube]http://youtu.be/wE3fmFTtP9g[/youtube] The New York Times reports that Google will honour the existing contracts which its new acquisition, Boston Dynamics, has […]
