It's the classic trope of buddy cop movies: you introduce two characters with little in common aside from the job that they do. Maybe one's old and the other's young. Maybe one's black and the other's white. Maybe one's a maverick and the other is a stickler for doing things by the book. At first they don't get along. Perhaps one is new to the precinct and the other fears that they're being phased out as a result. But, wouldn't you know it, they turn out to be a great team.
The typical narrative, as cliché as any Lethal Weapon buddy cop movie ripoff, is that robots are here to steal our jobs . Unless you're one of the people lucky enough to be building or selling the robots, you should view robots as the flashy new rival in town, hovering in the wings to replace you.
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Boston Dynamics CEO on the company's top 3 robots, AI, and viral videos | VentureBeat
Before the marketing departments of the world got ahold of the term “artificial intelligence,” it used to bring to mind some sort of robot. Boston Dynamics is one of the best-known company in the robotics space, largely thanks to its viral videos of its robots in action. But the company doesn’t talk to press much, so we jumped at the opportunity to sit down with Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert at Web Summit 2019 last week.
Raibert attended the conference to talk about three robots Boston Dynamics is currently focused on, and he categorized them by time: today (Spot), tomorrow (Handle), and the future (Atlas). In our interview, he also discussed current customers, potential applications, AI, simulation, and of course those viral videos.
Video: Meet MIT's new 'Mini Cheetah' robots | Boston.com
Something about the way they can't seem to hold still, at least in this new video , is reminiscent of puppies at doggy daycare — or maybe a group of bugs? It's difficult to say.
In February, MIT released a video of the Mini Cheetah turning backflips, withstanding kicks, and landing after unexpected falls. "We make mistakes, but Mini Cheetah is built to handle them," one frame of the video reads. At the time, the the Washington Post reported that each 20-pound machine is powered by 12 electric motors that provide it with a large range of motion.
Robots appear more persuasive when pretending to be human: When bots disclose their non-human
Recent technological breakthroughs in artificial intelligence have made it possible for machines, or bots, to pass as humans. A team of researchers led by Talal Rahwan, associate professor of Computer Science at NYU Abu Dhabi, conducted an experiment to study how people interact with bots whom they believe to be human, and how such interactions are affected once bots reveal their identity.
In their paper titled Behavioral Evidence for a Transparency-Efficiency Tradeoff in Human-Machine Cooperation published in Nature Machine Intelligence , the researchers presented their experiment in which participants were asked to play a cooperation game with either a human associate or a bot associate.
While you're here, how about this:
State lawmakers host rural kids—and their robots—at the Capitol | WITF
The days of journalism’s one-way street of simply producing stories for the public have long been over. Now, it’s time to find better ways to interact with you and ensure we meet your high standards of what a credible media organization should be.
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(Harrisburg) — Dylan Lu, a junior at Cranberry Junior Senior High School in Venango County, was standing in the middle of the busy rotunda, slowly guiding his robot, Hugh, to stack a bunch of plastic blocks.
To move as fast as animals, robots will need to get softer
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The research, " Elastic Energy Storage Enables Rapid and Programmable Actuation in Soft Machines ," published October 25, 2019, in Advanced Functional Materials, detail both how controllable elastic materials can be made, and how that design can shape a whole category of bio-inspired robots. The "bio" in this case in particularly broad, with everything from chameleon tongues to frog hands to the clasping mechanism of Venus Fly Traps contributing to the look into elastic storage of energy.
Robots bring online students to the classroom | News | montanakaimin.com
Robots Will Roam the University of Houston Campus Delivering Snacks - Eater Houston
The University of Houston's 53,000 students can now hit a button on a phone app, and a robot will greet them carrying Panda Express. That's the plan for UH's new fleet of 30 Starship autonomous delivery robots, which will roam the campus delivering snacks and groceries to students, faculty, and staff.
This Starship robot program is in partnership with Chartwells Higher Education, and UH is said to be the first institution of higher education in Texas to offer robotic food deliveries on campus.
Happening on Twitter
What do you think, friends, do you welcome our new robot overlords? 😳 https://t.co/DF4CVDndIt GeorgeTakei (from Broadway - New York, NY) Fri Nov 08 19:22:22 +0000 2019
2019: "Aww they can do backflips." 2050: "Who could've known a single backflip from our soon to be robot overlord… https://t.co/bCepCurwKd XLNB (from Los Angeles, CA) Fri Nov 08 19:38:06 +0000 2019
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