Jun 14, 2015
Robots Falling Down at DARPA Robotics Challenge
Posted by Scott Davis in category: robotics/AI
Compilation of robot falls from the DARPA DRC Finals Day 1. Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/automaton
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Jun 14, 2015
Cheetah robot lands the running jump (w/ Video)
Posted by Scott Davis in category: robotics/AI
In a leap for robot development, the MIT researchers who built a robotic cheetah have now trained it to see and jump over hurdles as it runs—making this the first four-legged robot to run and jump over obstacles autonomously.
Jun 14, 2015
China’s Troubling Robot Revolution — Martin Ford | The New York Times
Posted by Seb in category: robotics/AI
“Automation has already had a substantial impact on Chinese factory employment: Between 1995 and 2002 about 16 million factory jobs disappeared, roughly 15 percent of total Chinese manufacturing employment. This trend is poised to accelerate.” Read more
Latest DARPA robotics competition shows how we still have some work to do on independently mobile robots.
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Jun 12, 2015
New Research Says Robots Are Unlikely to Eat Our Jobs — Steve Lohr | NY Times
Posted by Seb in categories: employment, robotics/AI
“The McKinsey study analyzes and forecasts the potential impact of so-called digital talent platforms. The report looks at three types of such platforms: job-finding and employee-seeking websites (such as Monster.com and LinkedIn); marketplaces for services (Uber and Upwork, for example); and data-driven talent discovery tools (like Evolv and Knack). By 2025, McKinsey estimates, these digital talent platforms could add $2.7 trillion a year to global gross domestic product, which would be the equivalent of adding another Britain to the world economy. And the digital tools, the report states, could benefit as many as 540 million people in various ways, including better matches of their skills with jobs, higher wages and shorter stints of unemployment.” Read more
Jun 11, 2015
What does Bilderberg have in common with Camp Alphaville? | FT Alphaville
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: futurism, robotics/AI, transhumanism
Fun article below on upcoming Financial Times event. Transhumanism and AI will be a part of the discussions at the event. They’re going to have lots of weird technology there, as well as robots wandering around.
Jun 10, 2015
Just as Stephen Hawking warned? Here comes ‘the world’s angriest robot’ — CNET
Posted by Jeremy Lichtman in category: robotics/AI
Technically Incorrect: A New Zealand-based company says it’s building a very, very angry robot to help companies deal with angry customers.
Jun 8, 2015
‘We’re a long way from a singularity’ says ‘Ex Machina’ AI consultant — by Luke Westaway c/net
Posted by Seb in categories: robotics/AI, singularity
On-screen robots tend to rise up and crush their puny human masters with alarming regularity.
“I decided to log every single incidence of artificial intelligence or robots in the history of cinema,” Adam Rutherford, a British geneticist and author who served as AI consultant on the recent film “Ex Machina”, tells CNET’s Crave blog. “I think I calculated that 65 percent of them end up being a threat, and the rest of them are just servile.” Read more
Jun 6, 2015
Meet the New Generation of Robots for Manufacturing — James Hagerty | Wall Street Journal
Posted by Seb in categories: business, economics, robotics/AI
“Another big trend at work: The Renault robots are ‘collaborative,’ designed to work in proximity to people. Older types of factory robots swing their steel arms with such force that they can bludgeon anyone who strays too close. Using sonar, cameras or other technologies, collaborative robots can sense where people are and slow down or stop to avoid hurting them.” Read more
