Link: Robots in retail
MIT Technology Review has an interview with an exec from a company making robots for Walmart: “Walmart’s new robots are loved by staff—and ignored by custome...
MIT Technology Review has an interview with an exec from a company making robots for Walmart: “Walmart’s new robots are loved by staff—and ignored by custome...
Coming soon: elderly cyborg farmers?
The May issue of Discover has a transcript of a roundtable between the editor in chief, Corey Powell, and four researchers in robotics. It’s an interesting c...
Dario Floreano and Laurent Keller describe experiments that combine genetic algorithms and robots. It’s a review essay rather than a description of new resea...
Robot swarms programmed with genetic algorithms to “evolve” their behavior:
Robots with bones:
An interesting story from Popular Mechanics about progress in cybernetics, titled “Mind control stories.” It starts with the macaque controlling a robot arm ...
So, a monkey in North Carolina was controlling a robot in Japan, using only its brain waves.
Product design guru Donald Norman looks at this year's crop of "smart" machines in this NY Times article, and reminds us why future robot sex ain't all it's...
I've been telling people this week that there is some sense to which the evolutionary future will be determined by the cultural impact of technological chan...
Neurophilosophy has really come to life in the last few weeks. A post earlier this week described the neural circuitry that controls swimming in zebrafish, ...
Signs that the Japanese robot industry has gone too far:
One of those things that says, "Please stop reading now" :
It seems clear that we have only one hope against superintelligent fearless killer mice: Robots that carry out our telepathic commands!
The BBC is running this article about a new study that evaluates the bipedality of A. afarensis using robotic design software: