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October 22, 2015

Japan wants to see robots compete against each other in the 2020 Summer Olympics

Tokyo will host the 2020 Olympics, and if Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has any say in the matter, the world will see the world’s robots come together to compete for robotic supremacy. 

October 22, 2015

New androids at Tokyo museum look, sound eerily human

The new robot guides at a Tokyo museum look so eerily human and are so perfectly smooth in speech they almost outdo people.

October 22, 2015

Google purchases UK startup DeepMind, expanding its reach in artificial intelligence

Google says that it has purchased the British startup DeepMind, an artificial intelligence company founded by a 37-year old former chess prodigy and computer game designer.

October 22, 2015

300-pound robot is new breed of crime-fighting machine

A Silicon Valley company has introduced what may prove the next generation in night watchmen – a 5-foot-tall, 300-pound crime-fighting robot designed to stand sentry in the wee hours of the night.

October 22, 2015

Laser gatling gun a real blast

Patrick Priebe, a German hobbyist with a knack for making laser weapons, has done it again and this time he’s gone and built a Laser Gatling Gun.

October 22, 2015

Underwater robots used to find endangered whales

Torpedo-shaped underwater robots called gliders can read calls from four types of endangered whales and relay their locations in real time. And they can do it in weather too harsh for the plane and boat surveys now relied on to find the whales.

October 22, 2015

Navy catapults unmanned X-47B aircraft for first time

The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman slingshot an unmanned aircraft into the skies Thursday at a facility in Patuxent River, Md., the first of a series of shore-based catapult-to-flight tests over the next few weeks.

October 22, 2015

Dartmouth football introduces robotic tackling dummies to help curb concussions

As the NFL tries (and constantly fails) to navigate around the growing problem of player concussions, an Ivy League school in New Hampshire has come up with a way to actively combat this risk of injury instead of, you know, just looking the other way.

October 22, 2015

Huggable, the robotic teddy bear for sick children, is now in Boston Children's Hospital

In what is either a truly genius or entirely creepy move, a collaboration between the Boston Children's Hospital and M.I.T. has combined the nostalgic comfort of the teddy bear with the technological advances of the 21st century to produce Huggable, the robotic teddy bear that talks to sick children.

October 22, 2015

Chinese upstart takes lead in fast-growing drone market

An amateur photographer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, drew crowds when he used a drone mini-helicopter made by China's DJI Technology Co. to capture images of historic church steeples and other ...