What the Heck

"Humans could marry robots within the century. And consummate those vows. "My forecast is that around 2050, the state of Massachusetts will be the first jurisdiction to legalize marriages with robots," artificial intelligence researcher David Levy at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands told LiveScience." More

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I was surprised to learn that factories exist in Japan to build sex dolls. More (some images not safe for work)

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Watching this without the sound was confusing. I couldn't understand why this guy kept punching this robot on Sesame Street.

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"Robots can get away with things that humans cannot. In the Minami area of Osaka, for example, a humanoid robot dressed in a “sailor suit” high school uniform now works the street as a tout for an adult information center that navigates potential customers to local sex clubs. Humans in Osaka are prohibited by law from engaging in such nefarious activity." More

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0.5 inch / 12.5 mm on a side
0.125 cubic inch / 2 cc volume
15 minute run time
0.5 f/s / 0.15 m/s maximum speed
Microcontroller
Infrared sensing

Pico qualifies as the smallest in its category in spite of the existence of a 1 cc class in some Japanese robot competitions because to my knowledge (to date), none of those robots have contained their own power source, and many of them don't even contain any circuitry.

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"The Skynet spacecraft will deliver secure, high-bandwidth communications for UK and "friendly" forces. The launch is part of a multi-billion-pound project that will allow the Army, Royal Navy and RAF to pass much more data, faster between command centres." SKYNET??! No, not that Skynet, this Skynet.

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Super dangerous and super fun robot ride

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We took an industrial robot, strapped a tennis racket and a sword to it, and put it under the control of a WiiMote. We ran very light pattern recognition on the WiiMote, so it would copy our sword swings. You can read the write up at www.usmgarage.com

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