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Faster robots are demoralizing human co-workers
When robots beat humans in contests, people consider themselves less competent and expend slightly less effort – and they tend to dislike the robots. Read more…
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5G WIRE: Toyota 5G robot, network slicing, Smart video call
5G action this day: DoCoMo controls a Toyota robot 10 km away using 5G; Cellcos must transform to capitalize on $66b network slicing opportunity; Smart Communications makes a 5G video call; Fujitsu makes single-panel antenna Read more…
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Even robots are impacted by US-China trade war
BEIJING (Reuters) – At a trade show in southern Beijing, children and parents crowd around a group of pink and blue dancing robots that resemble toddler-sized Power Rangers. The robots – wired with wide LED Read more…
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Friday Futures: wrong universe theory, sassy bots
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: theory of the universe could be wrong; sassy bots; self assembling proteins; blockchain based elections; an Read more…
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Friday Futures: how to control your robot, blockchained Pokemons
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: how to control your robot; blockchained Pokemons; better IoT device tracking; big data is bad Read more…
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Friday Futures: DNA-based robots; immortality and dead aliens
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: controlling DNA-based robots; immortality; AI used to manipulate fake videos; and did aliens die from climate change? AI Read more…
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Friday Futures: antigravity tilt, living in a hole on Mars and naked selfies!
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: Examining Michael Jackson’s antigravity tilt; embalming your online persona; living in a hole on Mars; and Read more…
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Self-driving cars are only in beta and humans are already attacking them
ITEM: Humans are attacking self-driving cars in California. Well, two of them, anyway. A number of autonomous-car tests are underway on the streets of San Francisco and elsewhere in Silicon Valley. So far in 2018 Read more…
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Friday Futures: robot doctors, smog diamonds and brain hacking
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. Because who doesn’t want to know the future before it happens (maybe)? This episode: a robot passes its Read more…