Posts Tagged ‘Robots’
THROWBACK THURSDAY: 1940s-Era Domestic Robots
Rollo The Robut: A 1940s-era vision of the future where domestic robots were large, clumsy, and controlled by push-buttons and women were stupid.
Read MoreProduct Design
PBS explores three aspects of product design: build quality and engineering fundamentals, humanism and sustainability, and speculation on the future of the product experience.
Read MoreFoambot
The Modular Robotics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania has created a self-assembling robot from off-the-shelf insulation foam & modular components.
Read MoreWill Robots Take Our Jobs?
Dr. Michio Kaku speculates that in the near future, robots will be our fiercest competitors in the workplace. As more employers use artificial intelligence, any position involving repetition or rote memorization is at risk of extinction.
Read MoreRobonaut 2
Cutting-edge robots, recently unveiled by NASA and General Motors, will work next to humans on Earth and in space. Jorge Ribas reports on the twin machines dubbed Robonaut 2.
Read MoreRobotic Flight
Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot that flies like a seagull by, get this, flapping its wings. Amazing.
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