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It can live-stream funerals, too.
The final selection for New Horizons is expected in mid-2019.
They changed our society from the ground up. And will do so again.
If only I was a robot :(.
Awesome!
Be good, drive good.
This 100-year-old silent film is absurdly mesmerizing. Way ahead of its time!
More like us, in other words.
Curiosity may have killed the cat, but cats don't run on microprocessors. I think.
Click, print, ready!
Cute + science = yesplease.
Show me some skin!
No code? No problem!
The hips don't lie.
A novel take on consciousness.
Be like us, but not us.
One award-winning company is back in style with another crazy robot.
Robots are getting smarter and smarter.
Even nylon is getting ripped and I still won't hit the gym.
They've collected staggering amounts of data.
Sawyer can do just about anything, even 'wink'.
Google's DeepMind algorithm just got one step closer to behaving like a human.
A robot that was made to mock us.
It all happened because they let the program learn without interference.
The company says its drones will be available for lease sometime next year.
Witnesses say the robot complied peacefully.
Weird times ahead.
To be fair, students will do insane things for food.
The '60s were very creative.
The sub will be used to explore Titan's oceans.
This cute, self-powered octopus-like robot could be a game changer.
It's just as crazy as it sounds.
A stingray created from living rat cells blurs the line between technology and nature.
Handy.
While robotics and AI research is taking massive strides forward, our social development hasn't really kept up with them.
The footwear giant has announced it will move much of its activities from Asia back to Germany. The company unveiled ts prototype “Speedfactory”, a state-of-the-art, 4,600 square-meter facility which will automate most of the work.
Harvard roboticists made an insect-like flying robot that perches on ceilings to save energy, like bats, birds or butterflies.
Machii Isao is an Iaido master and an expert sword wielder. He holds five Guinness World Records including "fastest 1,000 iaido sword cuts (36 min 4 sec)" and "most iaido sword cuts to one mat" (8), but you might know him as the real-life "fruit ninja" if you saw some of his stints up on YouTube. Check out how Isao fared against a robot.
Robots are taking our jobs once again - or rather, helping us do our job a little bit better.
I for one welcome our new robot TAs.
Soft robotics involves machines designed to resemble biological systems like squids, caterpillars, starfish, human hands and more. Though far less practical at this point, soft robots could prove invaluable soon enough. ZME Science looked at a couple of some of the most amazing designs made by scientists so far.
Eelume company developed a snake-like robot for underwater maintenance tasks. The deceptively simple robots could drastically reduce operating costs for deep sea rigs.
Awesome? Undoubtedly. Useful? Well, according to Kagome, which claims to be Japan's largest supplier of ketchup and tomato juice, people taking part in the Tokyo marathon really need this.
Unfortunately, most people would, even when they've been shown it's not functioning properly.
The focus point of prosthetics today is, understandably, restoring ability, function and form to those who have lost a limb. But the same technology can be used to augment a healthy body, allowing a person to perform tasks outside of our body's limitations.
Pushing around Atlas actually has a purpose, besides annoying the robot.
Such a program might prove effective at training simple robots to be less awkward around humans and, most importantly, make sure they don't hurt anyone or break social norms.
Cockroaches are nasty and annoying, but you've gotta hand it to them - if there's something they're really good at, it's surviving.
It may be possible to observe the presence of an advanced alien civilization by the effects produced if that civilization were to self-destruct through nuclear war, biological warfare, nanotechnological annihilation, or stellar pollution. Each case would generate unique detectable signs that could be identified by earth-based telescopes.
In what seemed impossible just a few years ago, a computer has beaten a Go champion.
