Robotics
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Computers can coordinate cars into long convoys where the lead driver is a human.
Automated Car Convoys Pass First Test in Sweden (video) | Singularity Hub
Computers Read News Before Trading Stock
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The truth behind the old joke is that most robots are programmed with a fairly rigid "model" of what they and the world around them are like.
Robot Adapts to Injury
Cloud Robotics: Connected to the Cloud, Robots Get Smarter - IEEE Spectrum
Image: Cellbots In the first “Matrix” movie, there’s a scene where Neo points to a helicopter on a rooftop and asks Trinity, “Can you fly that thing?”
Welcome to the third annual Singularity Hub robotic year-in-review. We’ll be showing you the best robots – and the most incredible videos – from 2010. This year we’ve seen robots guarding nuclear stockpiles, flying through hoops, fetching beers from the fridge, parallel parking, wrestling, solving Rubik’s Cubes, and more.
Best Bots of 2010
PR2 Robot Operates Autonomously
In a test of its fortitude, the PR2 has gone the distance. What do you do when your robotic child is all grown up?Realistic Female Telepresence Robot
Actroid F can speak in your place, using webcams to watch and mimic your facial expressions and movements. When you speak with your family over a webcam they may be able to see your face, but they don’t have a real body in the room with which they can interact. Why not give them a creepy robot to to talk to instead?