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Friday Futures: Us, galactic collisions and Iron Man flies
This week: We live in the remnants of a galactic collisions; Queen of Shitty Robots; climate change and poison; parasites in the brain; Iron Man suit that flies. Read more…
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Friday Futures: evolution on Mars, smelling bots and flying taxis
This week: evolution on Mars will not go well; AI as an extension of your mind; robots that smell, well; Salvador Dali and a flying taxi. Read more…
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Outsourcing robots for office work – the next big wave?
Maybe Robot Processing Automation (RPA) and outsourcing office robots is the next big wave to start some real disruption. Read more…
Features
Friday Futures: invisible aliens and an asteroid hit
This week: invisible aliens are breeding with us; robots playing Tetris; AI and magnets; laser weapons and asteroids. Read more…
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Walmart says robot army will assist workers, not replace them
Walmart says it will add thousands more robots this year across its stores. And to hear Walmart tell it, that’s actually good news for its employees. Read more…
Off the Wire
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…
News
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…
Features
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…