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“To say a military tactic is legal, or even effective, is not to say it is wise or moral in every instance. For the same human progress that gives us the technology to strike half a world away also demands the discipline to constrain that power — or risk abusing it.”

President Barack Obama on drone warfare

(via NYTimes.com)
Source: The New York Times
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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has publicly revealed that Russian experts are developing robots designed specifically to minimize casualties in terrorist attacks. Oh, and also to neutralize those terrorists. What could possibly go horribly, horribly, terribly wrong?

(via popsci)

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This is either a robot octopus or … ROBO-CTHULHU! (via IEEE Spectrum)

This is either a robot octopus or … ROBO-CTHULHU!

(via IEEE Spectrum)

Source: spectrum.ieee.org
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Take one robot and call me in the morning? joshbyard: Injectable Microbots, Steered by Magnets Deliver Drugs Exactly Where They’re Needed Researchers from the Institute of Robotics in Zurich have recently developed an electromagnetically-controlled robot that can be delivered to the eye  — by injection with a 23-gauge needle — and precisely positioned to sites where drug is needed. …by coating the microbot with dye-containing nanospheres, the researchers have now repurposed the device to provide critical measurements of oxygen concentration in the eye to make quick diagnoses when vision unexpectedly fails. These new machines, and the apparatus which controls them, are part of a larger effort to deliver and control devices within several organ systems using remote power… Steering is done by a device called the OctoMag control system (PDF). The OctoMag has three degrees of freedom (DOF) in positioning and two for pointing orientation. It is composed of eight DC-operated electromagnets arranged in a hemispherical configuration. It can create a maximum gradient of 1.5 Tesla per meter. The microbots have a diameter less than 500um, and their length can be adjusted according to the size of drug reservoir needed. The researchers experimented with several materials for their microbot, but the best proved to be NdFeB (neodymium magnet). Most of the experiments thus far have been done in eyes from pigs or human cadavers. (via Magnetically steerable, injectable microrobots could help treat blindness | ExtremeTech)

Take one robot and call me in the morning?

joshbyard:

Injectable Microbots, Steered by Magnets Deliver Drugs Exactly Where They’re Needed

Researchers from the Institute of Robotics in Zurich have recently developed an electromagnetically-controlled robot that can be delivered to the eye  — by injection with a 23-gauge needle — and precisely positioned to sites where drug is needed.

…by coating the microbot with dye-containing nanospheres, the researchers have now repurposed the device to provide critical measurements of oxygen concentration in the eye to make quick diagnoses when vision unexpectedly fails. These new machines, and the apparatus which controls them, are part of a larger effort to deliver and control devices within several organ systems using remote power…

Steering is done by a device called the OctoMag control system (PDF). The OctoMag has three degrees of freedom (DOF) in positioning and two for pointing orientation. It is composed of eight DC-operated electromagnets arranged in a hemispherical configuration. It can create a maximum gradient of 1.5 Tesla per meter.

The microbots have a diameter less than 500um, and their length can be adjusted according to the size of drug reservoir needed. The researchers experimented with several materials for their microbot, but the best proved to be NdFeB (neodymium magnet). Most of the experiments thus far have been done in eyes from pigs or human cadavers.

(via Magnetically steerable, injectable microrobots could help treat blindness | ExtremeTech)

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MIT’s Cheetah robot runs faster & more efficiently

Robotic Greyhound Races are closer than you think. From Engadget:

At the recent International Conference on Robotics and Automation, the Institute of Technology showed of its newest version, which reached a top speed of 13.7 mph. To accomplish this, the runner still needs parallel support bars to constrain movement in one dimension, reducing any roll, yaw — and the chances of a pretty expensive fall. The team says the new version’s cost of transport (COT is power consumption divided by weight, times velocity) is around 0.52. In comparison, Honda’s Asimo has a hefty COT of 2.

[read more] [MIT Biomimetic Robotics Lab]

More efficient killing machines for a better tomorrow!

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who-is-in-japan:

This creepy projection lady works for the cell phone company in japan to bring in customers

This is a special kind of creepy, Japan.

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Chicken or human? All us meatbags look the same to robots.

Chicken or human? All us meatbags look the same to robots.

Source: popsci.com
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Scared myself when I realized that technology may one day put within our reach the capability to build a robot Katy Perry.

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This Crawling Inchworm Robot Can Be Printed Out and Folds Itself - IEEE Spectrum

Robots soon to put meatbags out of the robot-making business:

they can be printed out of cheap materials, they fold themselves together, and another robot can plonk some hardware on them and they’re good to go.

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Of course Japan has robots that smell your breath.

Breathe into the female robot’s face, and if your breath is okay, she’ll say. “A somewhat tart, good smell—no problem.” If it’s not so good, she says things like, “Your breath is kind of stinky” or “This is bad; Unbearable”.

(via Kotaku)

Source: kotaku.com