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8 votes
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Meet Robbie, the walking talking robot guide dog
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Predictions from 2018 reviewed
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My parents’ dementia felt like the end of joy. But when they got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations.
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Tiny robots made from human cells heal damaged tissue (in the lab)
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Special Ops bomb technician rates eleven bomb disposal scenes in movies and TV | How real is it?
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Industrial robot crushes man to death in South Korean distribution centre
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Boston Dynamics shows off LLM equipped robot
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Vine Robots — Learn to make your own!
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Robotic ‘Super Monster Wolves’ are guarding Japanese towns against bears
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The robots are coming, but older workers have less to fear than they might think
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Robots are people, too: On the ways writers use non-human characters to tell human stories
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Bioengineers at Arizona State University leveraging a LEGO robotics kit created an affordable yet powerful gradient mixer to purify self-assembling nanostructures
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A look back at some robotic inventions that didn't quite get there
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The robots are coming ― to pick Northwest apples
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The Dingo | A low cost, open-source robot quadruped
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The robot lawyer was a super dumb idea
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San Francisco will allow police to deploy robots that kill
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List of all active robots on and around Mars
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What's so wrong about sexbots?
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To bond with humans, robots are learning to laugh at the right time
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What are some good examples of retro sci-fi literature (retrofuturism)?
So I'm reading Asimov's short-story anthology The Complete Robot, which contains stories written between 1939 and 1977, and I'm fascinated by several instances in which Asimov tries to predict the...
So I'm reading Asimov's short-story anthology The Complete Robot, which contains stories written between 1939 and 1977, and I'm fascinated by several instances in which Asimov tries to predict the future of robotics.
When he gets it right is just as interesting as when he gets it wrong, as even when he's wrong, he's wrong in very interesting ways.
For example, it's very interesting how Asimov seems to think that everything must have a positronic brain (which often produces something either identical or very close consciousness), when in reality we now have numerous useful robots that have nothing of the sort.
So this made me thinking, I think I'd like to write a story that was just like that, an exploration of universal themes that is facilitated by simplified technology. A form of retrofuturism. And since I had the idea, obviously someone else had it before. I wanna read it! More recent stories, especially those with old-school robots and artificial intelligence. Any suggestions?
Also open to other medias, but books would be particularly helpful.
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Sidewalk robots get legal rights as "pedestrians"
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BeachBot uses AI to rid beaches of cigarette butts
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How many robots does it take to run a grocery store?
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Ethical behaviourism and the moral risks of human-robot relationships
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Nothing to be ashamed of: Sex robots for older adults with disabilities
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The French army is testing Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot in combat scenarios
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Brett Wilson judges the case for laws for robots
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Hello Robot's Stretch wants to reinvent how mobile manipulators perform tasks in home environments
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AI robot cast in lead role of $70M sci-fi film
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Exploring nature-inspired robot agility
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Will the 2020s be the decade that the robots finally come for our jobs?
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Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer
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Bringing a fossil to life: Reverse engineering locomotion
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How googly eyes solved one of today’s trickiest UX problems
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World first as local council uses robots to perform 'unbiased' job interviews
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Dan Souza and Andrew Rea make pancakes with a robot | What's Eating Dan
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What do you think about "robot affection"?
After watching this and this, and dealing with the cringe and shock, I wondered about whether these things, including this but also stuff like sex robots or other robots whose purpose is some sort...
After watching this and this, and dealing with the cringe and shock, I wondered about whether these things, including this but also stuff like sex robots or other robots whose purpose is some sort of affection, will ever take off. I know the phenomenon where in Japan adult males date handheld gameboy-like computers (wut?), but apart from that, I'm not sure anybody will prefer these stuff instead of the real thing. It also feels deeply weird, bizarre and cringy. What do you think of these tech?
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Headed on vacation? You're apt to encounter a robot
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Amazon created an exceptionally-detailed virtual clone of a neighborhood to train and test its delivery robots
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A poetry-writing AI has just been unveiled. It’s ... pretty good.
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The hundred-tonne robots that help keep New Zealand running
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The age of robot farmers - Picking strawberries takes speed, stamina, and skill. Can a robot do it?
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The rise of robot authors: Is the writing on the wall for human novelists?
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Andrew Yang: The 2020 candidate warning of the rise of robots. The entrepreneur says Trump won in 2016 because the US automated away jobs – so he wants to become president to do something about it.
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Farmworker vs Robot: Agricultural workers of the future may soon be made of tech and steel. Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a seasonal farmworker?
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Meet MASHBot, the touchscreen-tapping, Nintendo DS-playing robot
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Cafe opens in Tokyo staffed by robots controlled by paralyzed people
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Detroit, Westworld, and moving androids beyond human
7 votes