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Computer Sings Interpretations of Human Ballads – Will Probably Sing Robot Overlords Into Battle
Created by artist Martin Backes, this installation of a lone “robot” singing 90s power ballads is almost hypnotizing in a quietly terrifying way. Fittingly created with SuperCollider, a freeware audio program that synthesizes audio using...
Google’s ATLAS Robot About to be Unleashed – Mankind Should Probably Start Worrying
In 2013 Boston Dynamics introduced its ATLAS robot to the public. It was a little creepy because the thing walked around sort of like a child learning to walk around… Like this… The only thing making us all feel relatively safe from the...
Meet Pepper – Adorable Robot Face of Our Demise
Created as a joint effort between SoftBank and French robotics company Aldebaran, Pepper a preciously adorable robot, was unveiled recently in stores throughout Tokyo. The humans behind Pepper are hoping that everyone will want him to join...
Precursor to SkyNet Begins Testing in England!
For whatever reason, humankind and the geniuses that propel the science of robotics have impossibly ignored every science fiction film and book that has foretold of the impending replacement of soft, squishy people by cold, metallic...
Robot Teaches Itself to Paint So Humans Can Lose at Everything in the Future
Just when you think we’ve come to terms with robots and their place amongst us, they do something else that ruins all those happy-go-lucky feelings we had with them for just a brief moment. E-David, a robotic arm developed by the...
Quadcopters Play Catch Better Than Most Humans!
Quadcopters are the new must-have toys of the tech-headed kids. They’re showing up everywhere and there are thousands of them out ‘in the wild’. For those frightened that these things will eventually be controlled by SkyNet, this latest...
Robot Begins Year-Long Mission: To Survive One Year of Elementary School Among Real Students!
We’re always making references to the ‘Robot Apocalypse’ or about all of us being enslaved by ‘our future overlords’ when it comes to our slowly evolving erector set-like counterparts. While 30 and 40-somethings stand around and make...
Disturbing Robot ‘Baby’ Makes Ultra-Realistic Faces – Smiles at the End of Mankind
In our article about the other new toddler robot called Roboy we mentioned Diego-san. Here’s your first look into the robotic wagon-train that’s leaving Uncanny Valley slowly but surely. When John Connor shows up and SkyNet goes live it...
Company Creates Robotic Toddler to Help Us Like Our Future Overlords
Across the globe from the uncanny valley that is Diego-san’s facial expressions, the University of Zurich’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory making another weird foray into the creation of a robot toddler. Roboy is being developing with...
Disney Develops Robot That Plays Catch and Juggles!
When the Hall of Presidents attraction opened in Disneyland decades ago, the animatronics featured in it floored guests with their life-like movements. Disney became known for its animatronics in other attractions like Pirates of the...
DARPA Robot Navigates Obstacles – Strolls Into Your Nightmares!
Remember that weird and completely creepy mule-like, self-stablizing robot that’s been swimming around the internet for a while now called the BigDog from Boston Dynamics? Well BigDog just got out-weirded and out-creeped by DARPA’s newest...
Is the Turing Test Ready to Tumble?
Long the unmatched standard for artificial intelligence, it looks like the Turing Test might be ready to crack. According to a new essay in the April 12th edition of Science, a cognitive scientist at the French National Center for...
IBM Can Simulate An Entire Cat Brain
For those of us who’ve been whispering appointments, reminders and murder confessions to our phones for the past two weeks it won’t take much convincing to tell you that AI is already here in a major way. But what about the true simulation...
Steve Jobs Changed the World (Again) The Day Before He Died
Steve Jobs wasn’t just a man with great vision and instincts, he was a man that bet big on people, teams and concepts he believed in. Apple computers exist because Steve saw the potential in his friend Steve Wozniak’s hobbled together...
Chatbot VS Chatbot
What happens when two chatbots talk to each other? Spoiler alert: it involves unicorns. [Engadget]
Video: Japanese Pop Star Comes Out Of The Closet… As A Computer Creation
Fans of J Pop girl group AKB48 were delighted to see the addition of a new member in a candy commercial. Her name is Aimi Eguchi and she smiled and waves alongside her new band mates as they happily sung the virtues of Ezaki Glico. Yum!...