Category Archives: Robots

Computer officiates wedding, signals beginning of robot rule

By doris | Published: August 1, 2011

Full Story at DigitalLife.today.com Any literate Luddite can write his own wedding vows — and not endanger the future of humankind. Instead, Miguel Hanson wrote his own minister. Unable to get a friend to preside over Saturday’s nuptials for him and fiance Diana Wesley, the Houston web developer and IT consultant went and coded a [...]

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The robot that visits your cubicle

By doris | Published: July 31, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — When Trevor Blackwell, CEO of a company called Anybots, wants to know what his employees are up to, he sends a robot to their cubicles. “I can see if people are busy on something — and then won’t interrupt them,” he said this week. “Or, you know, if they’re [...]

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Soon, That Nearby Worker Might Be a Robot

By doris | Published: June 6, 2010

Full Story at BusinessWeek.com One of Linda Muniz’s newest colleagues is a robot that makes deliveries. On a recent morning, Muniz greeted the robot as it rolled up to the nursing station at El Camino Hospital in the Silicon Valley community of Mountain View, Calif., and announced its presence in a polite female voice. “I [...]

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Eyes flashing, robot conducts wedding

By doris | Published: May 17, 2010

Full Story at msnbc.com TOKYO – Almost everyone stood when the bride walked down the aisle in her white gown, but not the wedding conductor, because she was bolted to her chair. The nuptials at this ceremony were led by “I-Fairy,” a four-foot-tall seated robot with flashing eyes and plastic pigtails. Sunday’s wedding was the [...]

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So, how real are robots?

By doris | Published: April 20, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com You won’t after a quick chat with Noel Sharkey. The professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield in the UK says robots already fold clothes, watch children, feed older people, fight wars, surveil cities, dismantle bombs, answer questions from tourists, aid surgeons, clean floors and provide sexual [...]

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Five robots we wish were real … and five we’re glad aren’t

By doris | Published: April 17, 2010

Full Story at CNN.com (CNN) — It’s National Robotics Week, a time when students, scientists and others in the technology community celebrate the increasingly important role that real-world robots are playing in our lives. Militaries use robots to attack enemies and destroy land mines. Private companies sell robots that let their users see, hear and [...]

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