The idea that seems to have the most potential is the notion of replacing jockeys with robots.
It was one of the first biotech firms to automate the search for new genes with robots and easy-to-repeat experiments.
This is a pretty fascinating project, that both illustrates some of the cool things that we can do with robots.
Even Foxconn is starting to automate the Apple factories with robots now.
The desert village in the famous cantina scene is replaced by a teeming city, bustling with robots and aliens that weren't there before.
Writing of the Japanese comfort with robots, she allows that human-machine living may be different in a society where even sewing needles are buried.
Noel Sharkey says that he loves the idea of children playing with robots but has serious concerns about them being brought up by them.
Increased communication via phone and cloud computing is another contributory factor, but the main reason for the decline is that mail sorting is becoming automated, with robots replacing people.
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Although robot butlers remain a distant dream, if people are ever to interact with robots in a comfortable way those robots will need to avoid making users' skins crawl.
Vinod Khosla has rather stunned a conference of doctors with his idea that what we really need to do is get rid of 80% of doctors and replace them with robots.
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Mr Clark explained that the biggest problem associated with robots deployed into such zones was maintenance, because if repairs were needed, it would be difficult for humans to get anywhere near.
But this idea that all the gains will go to the owners of capital with robots is the same as the statement that all of the gains in productivity in farming would have gone to the farmers.
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Xinhua reports that technology giant FoxConn, which manufactures products for Apple and other computer companies, is working to reduce labor costs by replacing a portion of their workforce with robots, with a goal of having one million robots in place in their factories within three years.
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Despite the fact that these jobs were good factory jobs in China, and that they may simply lead to manufacturers to replace the workers with robots, consumers made a lot of noise over this and got Apple to subject itself to increased monitoring and pressed Foxconn into giving raises.
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"The basic objective is to understand what goes on in nature with animals by programming robots with similar behaviors, " she said.
Research conducted by Cisco, which has experimented with telepresence robots in house, found that employees were, oddly, more honest and open with a human-operated robot than with a human colleague.
But she couldn't get her drug screen for integrase blockers to work with the robots Merck had at the time.
Children with autism struggle with communicating with adults and with other children, but for some reason they engage with these robots.
Now, researchers say they've come up with primitive robots that can self-replicate.
Stupid Fun Club appears to be experimenting with using robots for entertainment.
Mr. Preston pieced together a blueprint for a high-concept adventure story with tiny robots, killer insects and an evil CEO of a nanotechnology firm.
Its warehouses are equipped with sophisticated robots handling automated fulfillment.
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Reinforcing the point that the fear campaign is driven not just by emails, but by expert commentary is this post The Trouble With Killer Robots by Bonnie Docherty.
Trower's second stage of robotic development includes simple, single-purpose robotic devices like the Roomba or Looj, along with toy robots like WowWee's Robosapien or Lego Mindstorms, a set of programmable robot-building pieces.
If you're lucky enough to find fellow Roboni-i owners then you can network with three robots at any time, which will allow them to shoot at each other during games or explore mode.
Nanto City, a centrally located Japanese city with an elderly population that comprises 26% of its total residents, is one of the first municipalities in the world to experiment with using robots to help care for the elderly.
Those looking to tinker with humanoid robots aren't exactly lacking for options these days, but Cognitive Spring is taking a slightly different approach than most with its Arduino-based cSpring bipedal robot -- one of the semifinalists in the Insert Coin competition here at Expand.
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So just to mine, we have to develop (a) technologies to mine orders of magnitude more quickly than currently exists (b) with autonomous robots that (c) are capable of self-replication from scratch, that is, by smelting metals and fabricating the other materials necessary from the raw materials of Mercury.
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