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He hopes that it could become the basis of self-cleaning robot oe a potentially useful design for Mars rovers

The wastefulness of automation Frances Coppola Pieria 8 july 2013 If robots put more and more workers out of jobs,

but even for the rich, heavy taxation may be preferable to an economy in which there is little or no demand for the goods which they and their robots produce.

Then again, maybe it would be better just to stop building robots, and keep people working.

One of the more popular moments at the event was a replay of a videotaped TED 2012 talk by University of Pennsylvania Professor Vijay Kumar on swarming drones, titled"Robots that fly...

The video's closing scene pictured a tiny band of the flying robots performing the James bond spy theme.

citing issue with the resulting creature being oetoo human. http://www. msnbc. msn. com/id/10441350/ns/health-cloning and stem cells 8. Robot powered by rats brain in bizarre British experiment

On the other hand, robots controlled by rat brains now thats an abomination if Ive ever heard of one.

which consist of attaching a chunk of rat brain to a robot to see if it moves The creepy part is that it does move.

The scientists are in the process of oeteaching the robot, as if it was an animal being trained. http://www. dailymail. co. uk/sciencetech/article-1044909/Robot-powered-rats-brain-bizarre-British-experiment. html#ixzz16mpvastz 9. Brain

Experiments of CIA to Create the Perfect Soldier The Perfect Soldier (almost) existed, and he wouldve been American.

The entire production area in these silos will be managed with a robotic arm that travels up and down a central shaft performing all necessary tasks of planting,

which sunlight will be channeled to provide natural illumination for optimal plant growth as well as the primary rail for the robotic arm.

Robotic Earthworm Drivers The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills

In the future, robotic earthworms will be used to silently mine the landfills and replace whatever is extracted with high-grade soil. 39.

Robot Polishers If we are going to have robots, they will need invariably to be polished. 54. Amnesia Surgeons Doctors who are skilled in removing bad memories or destructive behavior. 55.

Robotic Chef printing the ultimate cupcake and the ultimate banana At MIT, Amit Zoran has developed a series of digital devices that may one day be use to produce the food we eat.

The virtuoso mixer, the robotic chef and the digital fabricator all aim to bring the tools we use to make food up to date with digital technology.

the robotic chef handles the physical and chemical transformation of these ingredients into new compounds

Last month the 46-year-old farm implement company demonstrated to dealers its new autonomous system developed with Jaybridge Robotics of Cambridge, Mass.

and from scrabble to robotics. The variety of options will only be limited by a citys own imagination.

#Global manufacturing is changing with a new wave of robots At the new Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif,

. a robot might do up to four jobs: welding, riveting, bonding and installing a component. On the coast of China at the Philips electronics factory hundreds of workers use the old way of working to assemble electric shavers by using their hands and specialized tools.

At a sister factory here in the Dutch countryside, 128 robot arms do the same work with yoga-like flexibility.

One robot arm endlessly forms three perfect bends in two connector wires and slips them into holes almost too small for the eye to see.

A new wave of robots, far more adept than those now commonly used by automakers and other heavy manufacturers, are replacing workers around the world in both manufacturing and distribution.

it plans to install more than a million robots within a few years to supplement its work force in China.

has endorsed publicly a growing use of robots. Speaking of his more than one million employees worldwide, he said in January, according to the official Xinhua news agency:

#The falling costs and growing sophistication of robots have touched off a renewed debate among economists

#But Bran Ferren, a veteran roboticist and industrial product designer at Applied Minds in Glendale, Calif.,argues that there are still steep obstacles that have made the dream of the universal assembly robot elusive.

I had an early naã vet about universal robots that could just do said anything, #he.

And these things are still hard for robots to do.##Beyond the technical challenges lies resistance from unionized workers

The ascension of robots may mean fewer jobs are created in this country, even though rising labor and transportation costs in Asia and fears of intellectual property theft are now bringing some work back to the West.

Yet in the state-of-the-art plant, where the assembly line runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, there are robots everywhere and few human workers.

and almost all of the precise work is done by robots that string together solar cells and seal them under glass.

where robots that zoom at the speed of the world s fastest sprinters can store,

Robots could soon replace workers at companies like C & S Wholesale Grocers, the nation s largest grocery distributor,

which has deployed already robot technology. Rapid improvement in vision and touch technologies is putting a wide array of manual jobs within the abilities of robots.

For example, Boeing s wide-body commercial jets are riveted now automatically by giant machines that move rapidly and precisely over the skin of the planes.

And at Earthbound Farms in California, four newly installed robot arms with customized suction cups swiftly place clamshell containers of organic lettuce into shipping boxes.

The robots move far faster than the people they replaced. Each robot replaces two to five workers at Earthbound, according to John Dulchinos,

an engineer who is the chief executive at Adept Technology, a robot maker based in Pleasanton, Calif.,that developed Earthbound s system.

Robot manufacturers in the United states say that in many applications robots are already more cost-effective than humans.

At an automation trade show last year in Chicago, Ron Potter, the director of robotics technology at an Atlanta consulting firm called Factory Automation Systems, offered attendees a spreadsheet to calculate how quickly robots would pay for themselves.

In one example, a robotic manufacturing system initially cost $250, 000 and replaced two machine operators,

each earning $50, 000 a year. Over the 15-year life of the system, the machines yielded $3. 5 million in labor and productivity savings.

The Obama administration says this technological shift presents a historic opportunity for the nation to stay competitive.

Moreover, robotics executives argue that even though blue-collar jobs will be lost, more efficient manufacturing will create skilled jobs in designing,

And robot makers point out that their industry itself creates jobs. A report commissioned by the International Federation of Robotics last year found that 150,000 people are employed already by robotics manufacturers worldwide in engineering and assembly jobs.

But American and European dominance in the next generation of manufacturing is far from certain. What I see is that the Chinese are going to apply robots too,

#said Frans van Houten, Philips s chief executive. The window of opportunity to bring manufacturing back is before that happens.#

The assembly line here is made up of dozens of glass cages housing robots made by Adept Technology that snake around the factory floor for more than 100 yards.

Video cameras atop the cages guide the robot arms almost unerringly to pick up the parts they assemble.

The next generation of robots for manufacturing will be more flexible and easier to train. Witness the factory of Tesla Motors,

Its fast-moving robots, bright Tesla red, each has a single arm with multiple joints.

While the many robots in auto factories typically perform only one function in the new Tesla factory a robot might do up to four:

welding, riveting, bonding and installing a component. As many as eight robots perform a ballet around each vehicle as it stops at each station along the line for just five minutes.

Ultimately as many as 83 cars a day#roughly 20,000 are planned for the first year#will be produced at the factory.

once the robots are reprogrammed. Tesla s factory is tiny but represents a significant bet on flexible robots,

one that could be a model for the industry. And others are already thinking bigger.

Hyundai and Beijing Motors recently completed a mammoth factory outside Beijing that can produce a million vehicles a year using more robots

The New Warehouse Traditional and futuristic systems working side by side in a distribution center north of New york city show how robotics is transforming the way products are distributed, threatening jobs.

They watch over a four-story cage with different levels holding 168 rover#robots the size of go-carts.

The robot gathers a box by extending two-foot-long metal fingers from its side

where it turns into a wide lane where it must contend with traffic#eight robots are active on each level of the structure,

From the aisle, the robots wait their turn to pull into a special open lane where they deposit each load into an elevator that sends a stream of food cases down to a conveyor belt that leads to a large robot arm.

The software is sophisticated enough to determine which robot should pick up which case first, so when the order arrives at the supermarket,

this robotic warehouse is inspired by computer designers who created software algorithms to efficiently organize data to be stored on a computer s hard drive.

the cases of food moving through the robotic warehouse are like the digital bits being processed by the computer.

requiring expensive reprogramming of robots. But that list is growing shorter. Upgrading Distribution Inside a spartan garage in an industrial neighborhood in Palo alto, Calif,

. a robot armed with electronic eyes #and a small scoop and suction cups repeatedly picks up boxes

Older robots cannot do such work because computer vision systems were limited costly and to carefully controlled environments where the lighting was just right.

this robot can quickly discern the irregular dimensions of randomly placed objects. The robot uses a technology pioneered in Microsoft s Kinect motion sensing system for its Xbox video game system.

Such robots will put automation within range of companies like Federal express and United parcel service that now employ tens of thousands of workers doing such tasks.

The start-up behind the robot, Industrial Perception Inc.,is the first spinoff of Willow Garage,

an ambitious robotics research firm based in Menlo Park, Calif. The first customer is likely to be a company that now employs thousands of workers to load

and unload its trucks. The workers can move one box every six seconds on average. But each box can weigh more than 130 pounds,

The engineers are confident that the robot will soon do much better than that, picking up and setting down one box per second.

Chaotic Moon Labs began testing a robotic shopping cart that acts a bit like a mind-reading butler.

If pets can have positive effects on their owners emotions would a robot pet be able to do the same?

The one thing a robot can do that s different from an animal is truly be in the service of its owner

You can t always expect that from a robot.##The wired version of the Haptic Creature#robot rabbit began as a theoretical experiment by Ph d. student Steve Yohannon,

who was interested in learning whether the language of touch was universal. That is, whether everyone expresses emotion through touch

The wired robot rabbit has already proved popular among its test subjects, though: children with anxiety disorders and children on the autism spectrum.

#Integrating the fur sensor into the robot is a first step.##ore tests are planned#Maclean is planning a study at the children s hospital in Vancouver to see

if the robot is useful for kids about to undergo surgery. We have ideas for adults.

Probably not a 20-pound robot, but your cellphone could do this. It would be interesting to have a little companion with

Swarm-Bots-Swarm robotics involves the design and operation of multiple robots, or swarms, inspired by the behavior observed in social insects, called swarm intelligence.

and robots cultivate fruit and vegetables for home and overseas markets. In a world where technology has replaced people in many roles,

We ll be able to do that in the 2030s with nanobots traveling noninvasively into the brain through the capillaries

#oei m a robot.##What separates Levandowski from the nerds I knew is this: his wacky ideas tend to come true.#

As a sophomore, he won a national robotics competition with a machine made out of Legos that could sort Monopoly money#fair analogy for what he s been doing for Google lately.

It ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy.##Levandowski understands the sentiment. He just has more faith in robots than most of us do.#

#oepeople think that we re going to pry the steering wheel from their cold, dead hands, #he told me,

#the roboticist Sebastian Thrun told me.##oethe sensors weren t there, the computers weren t there,

He went on to build robots that explored mines In virginia, guided visitors through the Smithsonian,

His favorite example is from a robotics contest at M. I t. in 1991. Tasked with building a machine that could shoot the most Ping-pong balls into a tube,

Charlie, this is robotics. Nothing actually works.##Finally, a year into the project, a Russian engineer named Alex Krasnov cracked the code.

Its robotic Humvee, Sandstorm, drove just seven and a half miles before careering off course. A helicopter later found it beached on an embankment,

the robots just weren t smart enough. In the wrong light, they couldn t tell a bush from a boulder, a shadow from a solid object.

a roboticist at Carnegie mellon, had hit upon an unusually efficient way to do this: he let his car teach itself.

The C. M. U. team was led by the legendary roboticist William (Red) Whittaker. Pomerleau had left the university by then to start his own firm.

His robots had crawled over Antarctic ice fields and active volcanoes, and inspected the damaged nuclear reactors at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl.

putting something together that had never been done in robotics before, and some were insanely impressive.#

#And a few yards away in the laboratory, robotic arms mix together some compounds to produce the desired cells.

He has a chauffeur and it s a robot. Levandowski backs out of his suburban driveway in the usual manner.

The best way to execute that robot-to-human hand-off remains an open question.

#oeit ends with robots harvesting our bodies for energy.##Google is still not saying much to reporters (including this one) about its plans,

and weight issues of previous prototypes. 9. Agriculture Robots Agricultural robotics are, somewhat surprisingly, still in their infancy.

Many companies worldwide are attempting to bring various types of robot farmhands to market, but in robotics (where government and academic projects still lead the way) it tends to take longer than in some other,

more commercial industries for such projects to obtain funding, produce a product, and prove its viability.

One Boston company that was able to raise nearly $8 billion in private funds in 2011 has developed a robot that it claims could perform 40 percent of the manual labor currently performed on farms.

A Japanese research company has developed a robot that performs stereo imaging of strawberries to determine their ripeness before picking them,

and MIT has a cherry tomato garden that is managed by a small crew of robots equipped with vision sensors.

the main advantage to robot farm workers is the fact that they can work around the clock and never get tired. 8. Sunscreen Pills An effective sunscreen that can be administered orally has been sought after for some time now.

or even a robotic arm can increase the utility of a drone exponentially. I ve written about some of these possibilities in previous articles.

) The Octane from Volt Aerial Robotics (voltaerialrobotics. com) The Octane multirotor drone weighs 4 lbs

#oeswarmbots#is a term to describe a grouping of robots that work together like a school of fish or a flock of birds.

David Dorhout s robotic seeding machine Phase 3#Seeding, Harvesting Drones Robotics researchers at the National Agricultural Research center in Tsukuba,

Japan have experimented already with rice-planting robots. And American farmers already ride semiautomatic tractors that use GPS positioning to plant perfect rows of wheat.

Another form of robotic seeding machine is being created by David Dorhout founder of Dorhout R&d.

His autonomous five-legged#oeprospero#robot can move around in swarms with the ability to detect ideal planting spots,

Underneath the terminal s blacktop, a grid of 19,000 sensors help guide driverless robot trucks#GVS,

Our discussion ranged from robotic rats and sheep laterality to the advantages of GPS imprecision and the possibility of high-tech herds bred to suit the topography of particular property.

and LEGO Robotics programs for youth. California alt+library:##oeour programming initiative designed for (but by no means limited to) people in their 20s and 30s.

New york Competitive LEGO robotics team (Fayetteville Free Library, Fayetteville, NY) Mad Men discussion group (Half Hollow Hills Community Library, Dix Hills and Melville

bee-size robots with the ability to lift off the ground and hover midair when tethered to a power supply.

The robot can now carry more weight. The project represents a breakthrough in the field of micro-aerial vehicles.

It had previously been impossible to pack all the things needed to make a robot fly onto such a small structure and keep it lightweight.

and the threat it poses to agriculture were part of the original inspiration for creating a robotic bee,

Harvard s Kevin Ma spoke to Business Insider about the team s progress in building the bee-size robot since publishing its Science paper last year.

Where are you a little over a year after it was announced that the first robotic insect took flight?

We ve been continuing on the path to getting the robot to be completely autonomous,

We ve been building a larger version of the robot so that it can can carry the battery, electronic centers,

Last month, Greenpeace released a short video that imagines a future in which swarms of robotic bees have been deployed to save our planet after the real insects go extinct.

Will robot bees eventually be able to operate like honeybee hives to pollinate commercial crops? Ma:

But to do this the robots first need to fly on their own and fly very well. In theory, they would just have to come back to something to recharge their batteries.

The robot can now now carry more weight. That s important for the battery and other electronics and sensors.

Once the robot can stay aloft on its own, we would be working on things like allowing it to perform tasks,

Who are some of todays best-known celebrities that would likely show up as downloadable personalities for your computer, car, or robot?

Robotic Earthworms The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills because that is where we have buried our most valuable natural resources.

In the future, robotic earthworms will be used to silently mine the landfills and replace whatever is extracted with high-grade soil. 43.

#Top 15 emerging agriculture technologies that will change the world Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic and microrobots.

and potentially from producing meat directly in a lab. Automation will help agriculture via large-scale robotic

and microrobots to check and maintain crops at the plant level. Engineering involves technologies that extend the reach of agriculture to new means, new places and new areas of the economy.

Coupled with an intelligent network, such sensors could feed crucial information back to maintenance crews or robots.

Agricultural robots: Also known as agbots, these are used to automate agricultural processes, such as harvesting, fruit picking, ploughing,

Robotic farm swarms: The hypothetical combination of dozens or hundreds of agricultural robots with thousands of microscopic sensors,

which together would monitor, predict, cultivate and extract crops from the land with practically no human intervention.

and users of drones and other robotic equipment, predicts that 80%of the commercial market for drones will eventually be for agricultural uses.

A recent article in The Economist quotes Bill gates as saying at least a dozen job types will be taken over by robots and automation in the next two decades

Robotic Earthworm Drivers The most valuable land on the planet will soon be the landfills

In the future, robotic earthworms will be used to silently mine the landfills and replace whatever is extracted with high-grade soil. 147.

Walking robotic lamps reorganize garden landscapes Toro-bots No matter how pretty your garden may be it only gets that way because of all of the hard work you put into it.

reordering themselves at a robotic whim. Video) That s the idea that drove researcher and artist Cassinelli Alvaro to construct the Toro-bots, a pair of walking, locationally-aware robots with Japanese lanterns as heads.

These little garden bots are meant to meander about your topiaries and flower pots, altering the overall aesthetic of your garden every time you lift your head.

With a series of infrared rangefinders, the robots can sense their surroundings, even reacting to human visitors to their garden by stepping out of your way.

The robots are connected to a central hub via Xbee radios. This hub then connects to your ipad wirelessly

For us, just the thought of looking out the window to see the shrubbery sneaking across the lawn on robotic legs is enough to have us scrambling for our wallets.

Vermeulen chose to research food growth and remote-operated, robotic farming. Along with Simon Engler, a scientific programmer specializing in robotics,

Vermeulen set out to grow crops in a distant location that could not be accessed readily by the crew.

To do so, he and Engler devised a spiral hydroponics garden system with a central robotic arm.

The goal is to develop a system where robotics can take over part of the maintenance and food growing tasks,

and, as such, free up time for the astronautsthe goal is to develop a system where robotics can take over part of the maintenance and food growing tasks,

#Antarctic Mission to Feature Robot Subs & Seals with Sensors A team of British scientists is preparing for a mission to Antarctica an ambitious journey that will involve sensor-carrying seals seafaring robots

The scientists will also deploy a fleet of ocean robots called Seagliders and an unmanned submarine to measure ocean temperature salinity and the speed of currents at different depths.

A fly-sized robot? A killer cave in Spain? These stories and more made our top picks for the week.</

</p><p>And could we create a robot capable of doing the same?</</p><p>That's the question that's been buzzing around Harvard professor Robert Wood's head for 12 years now.

and his team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university have created a robot the size of a penny that is capable of remote-controlled flight.</

<a href=http://www. livescience. com/29292-robotic-insects-controlled-flight. html target=blank>Fly-sized Robot Takes First Flight</a p><p

<a href=http://www. livescience. com/26914-why-we-are-all-above-average. html target=blank>Why We're All Above Average</a p><p></p><p>Beware of robots driven by small insects.

A group of researchers has put a silkmoth in the driver's seat of a small two-wheeled robot to study how the insect tracks down smells.</

</i>)could help scientists develop robots that are able to sense environmental spills and leaks by smell according to the new study.</

<a href=http://www. livescience. com/26892-moth-drives-robot. html target=blank>Insect Drives Tiny Robot Toward Seductive Smells</a p><p

Because drones can fly cheaply at a low altitude they can get highly detailed images of cropland said Chris Anderson the CEO of 3d Robotics

The model could be used to make shepherd robots for crowd control or oil spill cleanup the researchers said.

Turnbull's most recent Op-Ed was Why Robots May be the Future of Interplanetary Research.

Earlier in April drone handlers in Zion national park in Utah were caught harassing a herd of bighorn sheep with a robotic flyer.

and visitor safety as a few of the reasons for prohibiting these flying robots over federally administered lands and waters.

Patterson's team used a robotic sampling device to shave thin slices from each layer of the shells'growth bands.

Robot submarines are now being deployed to cap the well. See page 532 for more. Eye in the sky The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy has made its first airborne observations

They re developing tools related to robotics informatics, nanotechnology, biotechnology and food safety, in addition to developing better ways to feed the world.

by making engineered nanobots that are dependent on a proprietary raw material. In a strange twist of fate, terminator technology has begun to look more appealing to environmentalists.

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