Dozens of autonomous war machines capable of deadly force conducted a field training exercise south of Seattle last August. The exercise involved no human operators but strictly robots powered with artificial intelligence, seeking mock enemy combatants. By Tyler Durden The exercise, organized by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a blue-sky […]
Robotics
Citizen reporter Joel Johnson documenting some of his hair raising experiences in a San Francisco robot taxicab . Includes video. Eric WorrallWatts Up With ThatWed, 19 May 2021 Waymo self-driving robotaxi goes rogue with passenger inside, escapes support staff We speak to man who experienced and recorded wild ride first […]
A liquid metal lattice that can be crushed but returns to its original shape on heating has been developed by Pu Zhang and colleagues at Binghamton University in the US. Physics WorldTue, 26 May 2020 The material is held together by a silicone shell and could find myriad uses including soft robotics, […]
Delightful story from the wonderful world of Mysterious Universe.(Great site, please support them) How typically Russian. Masters of bluffery! Brett TingleyDecember 15, 2018 Oh, Russia, don’t ever change. While China, Japan, and the U.S. continue to make great strides in robotics, Russia…well, isn’t quite there yet. Throughout 2016 and 2017, […]