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10/13/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Meet Centauro, a small four-legged robot that researchers say will change disaster relief efforts

Italian researchers have created the modern-day robot version of the mythological centaur. An article in Reuters reported about Centauro, a quadrupedal robot that is intended to provide mechanical muscle to human relief workers during disasters and emergencies. For a machine that stands close to five feet in height and weighs 200 pounds, Centauro is able […]

10/06/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

Walt Disney wants to create humanoid “stuntbots” to replace actors in high-flying stunts

In the future, action movies could be crediting robots, too. Walt Disney Studios is developing humanoid robots designed to perform high-flying and dangerous stunts for its movies and live theater shows. The “stuntbots,” also known as stuntronics, combine lasers, accelerometers, and gyroscopes to keep track of and correct their position in real time. These advanced […]

09/27/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

British scientists design robotic fruit pickers to address worker shortage

It seems that anything is possible with modern technology – including ending the need for humans to toil in strawberry fields. Scientists in the U.K. are developing robots to replace human strawberry pickers at farms, a solution aimed at reducing food wasted due to a shortage of human workers. The impact of Brexit goes all […]

08/27/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The modern-day bloodhound – a robot that can rapidly detect odors on the ground

Not only are hyper-efficient robots replacing humans in various lines of work, but they are also substituting for man’s best friend in its job at sniffing out things. An article in Science Daily stated that Chinese and Japanese researchers have created a robot that is better than a bloodhound when it comes to picking up […]

07/01/2018 / By David Williams

Walmart gearing up to launch own cashierless stores via secret “Project Kepler”

Will all the big retail stores, such as Walmart in the U.S., become filled with robots and autonomous systems in the not-so-distant future? All signs point to yes, and in fact that future might arrive a lot sooner than you think. If you ask the biggest names in U.S. retail right now about what the future might […]

06/08/2018 / By Edsel Cook

New autonomous robot, Maverick, designed to paint walls and houses perfectly each and every time

Just because painting a wall – much less an entire house – is an arduous job doesn’t mean a robot should take over the job. But that is what a startup company called MIST has decided. An article in Digital Trends reports that they have developed an autonomous robot called Maverick that can complete a flawless […]

06/05/2018 / By Edsel Cook

This 3D-printing robot can build an entire home in 6 months for just $300,000

The number of robots involved in the manpower-deprived construction industry has been increasing as of late. An architectural startup has decided to automate much of the construction process using 3D-printing robots. In a Business Insider article, the robot home-builders can print a 1,000-square-foot dream house in just half a year for as low as $300,000. […]

06/01/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Experts say that robotic weeders are the “future of weeding” especially for specialty crops

The latest job to be taken over by robots is also one of the oldest and hardest ever invented. Robotic weeders are starting to become a common sight at farms that cultivate specialty crops. Experts claim they are going to be the “future of weeding,” according to an American Society on Agronomy article. University of […]

05/23/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Japanese company reveals robot workers that will be used on various construction sites

A Japanese construction company recently debuted two designs for robot workers that could make up for the growing lack of human construction workers. In a report from The Daily Mail, these construction robots will only be working during evening hours. One of the robots demonstrated by Shimizu Corp. is already being used in several Japanese construction […]

05/21/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Singaporean scientists develop a robot that can assemble an IKEA chair in under 20 minutes

Many people loathe the mere idea of putting together IKEA furniture, much less actually going through the lengthy assembling process. So Singaporean researchers designed a robot that could take over the task of assembling cheap flat-packed furniture from Sweden, an article in Reuters stated. The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) research team took three years to […]

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