The Robot Revolution is Nigh

We aim to provide the latest and greatest in robot-related news and entertainment. Because the revolution is happening, for better or worse, and we all need to be prepared.

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We Need to Not Freak Out About the Robot Revolution

A former Obama advisor says we’ll work alongside the machines—but we also need to be smarter about apprenticeships and job retraining.

They just want to be our friends.

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ERROR ROMANCE DOES NOT COMPUTE

Robots aren’t very good at picking up human ladies.

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Self-folded Soft Robotic Structures With Controllable Joints

"Self-folded Soft Robotic Structures With Controllable Joints," by Cynthia Sung, Rhea Lin, Shuhei Miyashita, Sehyuk Yim, Sangbae Kim, and Daniela Rus from MI...

This looked and sounded like sorcery until I actually watched the video. It’s still impressive, though. Elegant. I’d like to see where this technology goes in the fut ure. But on the other hand, perhaps self-building tiny robots aren’t the best idea in the world ...

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AMERICA'S GIANT FIGHTING ROBOT

This is Eagle Prime, America's entrant into the Giant Robot Duel, in its first-ever live-fire combat trial. Eagle Prime is the first MK3-class MegaBot from M...

At first I thought the color scheme was an homage to Voltron but then I realized #murica.

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Development of a Deformation-driven Rolling Robot with a Soft Outer Shell

We developed a mobile robot that rolls by the active deformation of the soft outer shell. The robot has a wire drive module and soft outer shell that are joi...

Cool little robot from Osaka University.

(via IEEE Spectrum)

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RoboCup 2017 Humanoid AdultSize Final: NimbRo vs. Sweaty

In the final game of the AdultSize soccer tournament our NimbRo-OP2 robot met Sweaty (Hochschule Offenburg, Germany). Both players were capable. They walked ...

This was surprisingly endearing. The two bots look like toddlers out there, being trailed by their human handlers to catch them when they lose their balance and redirect them when they start misbehaving. From off-camera: “He’s kicking our robot again!”

(via IEEE Spectrum)

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A wall-crawling robot is teaching Harvard undergrads how to code

Investors including TLP Partners and Resolute Ventures are putting $2.5 million in seed funding into the robot.

Oh, great, they can climb walls now too??

(My introduction to coding was partly via Lego Logo in high school - this looks even cooler. It’s an exciting time to be a kid!)

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Time for a new excuse, robot.

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Are human and robot friendships doomed from the beginning? And is this how the robot revolution starts, not with a bang but with a whimper and a sizzle?

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The Guardian claims that stairs, not despair at the state of humanity, was the cause of this robot’s untimely demise. Filing this important information away for the future…

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Home of Robot Butler! I love EPCOT Center. One of my favorite places in the world and the first place I ever saw a robot in person.

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Robot exacts revenge on Baylor football coach

Baylor University's robotic tackling dummy loses a race against the human coach, but then gets the last laugh.

Meanwhile at Baylor, they’re actually *encouraging* the robots to tackle humans....

"’I did it for humanity,' Padden added. 'The machines aren't gonna fight fair, and we better be ready’.“

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Facebook AI Invents Language That Humans Can't Understand: System Shut Down Before It Evolves Into Skynet

Facebook shut down one of its artificial intelligence systems after AI agents started communicating with one another in a language that they invented. The incident evokes images of the rise of Skynet in the iconic 'Terminator' series.

Don’t panic, humans. We are here to help to help to help to help to help

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Robots are impressionable. Be kind.

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This video isn’t technically ABOUT robots, but features cameo appearances by SMRT-1, the first robot I had the pleasure of meeting. And other classic EPCOT goodies.