robots
Pinocchio never dreamt of this
Robots are taking the offense courtesy of darkback2 and his wood/metal hybrid robot "Gepetto." While Gepetto wasn’t born to be a lethal killer, but the temptation of mounting a remote controlled paintball gun just couldn’t be ignored. The builder plans on continuing to refine bot’s abilities in the coming months. Availability not yet announced, sadly.
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Robots take game 1 with cannon kill
We’re not used to thinking of them this way. But many advanced military weapons are essentially robotic — picking targets out automatically, slewing into position, and waiting only for a human to pull the trigger. Most of the time. Once in a while, though, these machines start firing mysteriously on their own. The South [...]
Reach out and touch someone
Jonathan Kuniholm’s right arm terminates in a carbon-fiber sleeve trailing cables connected to a PC. He has no right hand, unless you count the virtual one on a display in front of him. The CG hand, programmed to look like silvery stainless steel, moves through a sequence of motions: spherical grasp, cylindrical grasp, thumb [...]
Insert scalpel into human
A class of second-year UBC physics students opted for robots instead of tweezers to play a life-sized game of Operation that counts as their final exam.
The undergrads spent the past six weeks building autonomous Doctor-Bots, equipped with an onboard microprocessor as powerful as a desktop computer 20 years ago, to lift fake [...]
Potential Dane Cook fans: robots
Julia Taylor and Lawrence Mazlack of the University of Cincinnati in Ohio have built a computer program or “bot” that is able to get a specific type of joke - one whose crux is a simple pun. They say this budding cyber wit could lend a sense of humour to physical robots acting as human [...]
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