A New Jersey company says it has developed “the world’s first sex robot,” a life-size rubber doll that’s designed to engage the owner with conversation rather than lifelike movement.
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The Noodles Kid is out of a job now.
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A sales pitch for US prison slave labour? Fact; for customer-support calls, people with a criminal background actually perform a bit better.
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Scientists in the US have built and tested robotic ants that they say behave just like a real ant colony. Great; swarming drones.
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A bunch of Germans have built three robots that play their favorite heavy metal for them. Both the bass and guitar playing robots have about 76 fingers, and the drum robot has 4 arms! Oh, and they are all headbanging too.
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The US Army has reported the successfully completion of a two-hour low-level test flight by an automated Black Hawk helicopter dubbed RASCAL, aka the Rotorcraft Aircrew Systems Concept Airborne Laboratory.
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But it remains unclear what exactly the new machine will be capable of doing if and when it gets the go-ahead to enter Japan’s crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
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The Netherlands is rolling out intelligent bins that demand ID before accepting rubbish, and let the truck know when they need to be emptied, pointing towards the day when we’ll all have to pay for the stuff we throw away.
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The robot is actually cheating: It uses a high-speed camera to sense the shape and positioning of the human hand and can therefore respond, within 1 millisecond, with a move that will beat the human’s.
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Earlier this year, one of America’s best-known defense think tanks went looking for ways to get the most out of the U.S. military’s spy drones. To do it, that august institution turned to the editor of a documentary called Boob Jobs & Jesus.
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