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Rise of the Machines: Robot Kills Man at Volkswagen Plant
A contractor at one of Volkswagen's production plants in Germany has been killed after a robot grabbed and crushed him against a metal plate
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In the Robotic Near-Future, Most “Will Live Off Government-Provided Income”
If you think the jobs market and larger economy are bad now, just wait for the future. In the future, virtually everyone you know may be on the dole
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‘Software disaster’: Pentagon never even planned F-35’s gun to shoot until 2019
The problem with the gun system of the Pentagon’s most advanced F-35 jet, which won’t be able to shoot until at least 2019, is just a part of the disaster of ridiculously over-complex software,
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Flying car approaches liftoff as most advanced prototype yet is unveiled
With its sportscar cockpit and dragonfly wings that fold in neatly behind the cabin, it looks like something straight out of the Batcave or Q’s secret laboratory. But the creators of AeroMobil’s Flying Roadster
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DARPA’s Jet Pack Gives Supersoldiers a 4-Minute Mile
There is an array of research that seeks to create super soldiers. Back in 2010, a plan was announced to install transcranial ultrasonic mind control devices into soldiers' helmets in order to boost alertness,
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Scientists Are Afraid To Talk About The Robot Apocalypse, And That’s A Problem
Just how realistic is a 'Terminator' scenario? Working roboticists need to indulge the public in sci-fi scenarios. I thought it'd be a cool story to interview academics and robotics professionals about the popular notion of a
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Terminator Robots Becoming a Threat say U.S. Military and United Nations
Ethics is very often the final concern of science, especially where military endeavors are concerned. Drones and robots are finally becoming front page news after a series of warnings from prominent scientists and researchers who
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Robocop To Start Patrolling US Streets This Year?
It sounds like a bad sci-fi movie or an Orwellian Novel about a government gone mad with power; unfortunately, it could be our very near future: Robocops and drones keeping tabs on everyone. A Silicon
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Robots will be smarter than us all by 2029, warns AI expert Ray Kurzweil
By 2029, computers will be able to understand our language, learn from experience and outsmart even the most intelligent humans, according to Google’s director of engineering Ray Kurzweil. One of the world’s leading futurologists and
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US Army considers replacing thousands of troops with robots
The US Army is considering replacing thousands of soldiers with robots as it deals with sweeping troop cuts. A senior American officer has said he is considering shrinking the size of the Army’s brigade combat
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Here’s why Google is building a robot army
For the past few weeks, we've all been thinking why Google purchased Boston Dynamics, the organization that makes those scary Big Dog and PETMAN robots for the army. This comes after the organization declared
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The Day Google Became Skynet
The New York Times reports that Google has just purchased Boston Dynamics, the company known for building biomimetic robots for DARPA, the US agency that oversees military research. This news comes just a week after
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Google Buys DARPA-funded Robotics Firm Boston Dynamics
Google has announced that it has purchased Boston Dynamics, the engineering firm which has produced all those creepy dystopian future robots for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), such as the Big Dog
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NASA Contributes to The Evolution of the Humanoid Robot With “Valkyrie”
This is an update to the ongoing technocratic mission to replace humans with robots. In the age of computers, things evolve exponentially. In just a few generations robots have gone from a scientific fantasy, to
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This crime-predicting robot aims to patrol our streets by 2015
A scene in the 2004 film “I, Robot” involves an army of rogue NS-5 humanoids establishing a curfew and imprisoning the citizens of Chicago, circa 2035, inside their homes. That’s not how Knightscope envisions
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Terminator Robots to Take Over the Battlefield by 2023?
The U.S. military's pursuit of killer robots continues to make the news, despite the concerns of major international human rights groups who have launched a campaign to stop the runaway development of robots for
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DARPA’s New Project Sounds A Lot Like Computers That Think For Themselves
Trading isn't the only thing that happens in milliseconds nowadays, complicated exploits of computer systems happen just as fast — and with astounding potential consequences. The newest competition out of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
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Humanoid Robots to Flying Cars: 10 DARPA Projects
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has a reputation for working on some of the most cutting-edge, futuristic projects — many that could easily be mistaken for science fiction. The agency,
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Robots to take over jobs in human service industry, increasing the percentage of unemployed Americans
The so-called "service industry" - which includes restaurants, entertainment outlets, retail stores and hotels, among other businesses - has traditionally been one of the fastest-growing employment sectors in the country, even in a struggling
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One Million Robots: Our Replacements Have Arrived
In the ongoing debate as to whether robots will help or hurt the job market in the U.S. and overseas, some concrete answers are beginning to appear. Foxconn is a Chinese electronics manufacturer of mobile
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