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Aloft Hotel in California to test ‘Botlr,’ a robotic bellhop

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A.L.O. the Botlr

Starwood brand, Aloft, aims to deliver a fresh approach to the traditional hotel landscape, offering a tech-forward experience and modern style for the next generation of traveler. They recently announced a new member of its Cupertino team, A.L.O., the hotel brand’s first Botlr (robotic butler). This cyber associate will perform both front and back of house duties at the hotel, assisting staff in delivering amenities to guest rooms and other tasks.

 

 

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Momentum Machines burger robot is poised to disrupt the fast food industry

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Momentum burger-bot

Momentum Machines is cooking up burgers with a robot and they’re serious about fast food productivity. “Our device isn’t meant to make employees more efficient,” cofounder Alexandros Vardakostas has said. “It’s meant to completely obviate them.”

 

 

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Shipyard workers will be outfitted with robotic exoskeletons to give them superhuman strength

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Shipyard workers in South Korea will wear robotic exosckeletons.

AT a sprawling shipyard in South Korea, workers building the world’s biggest ships could be wearing robotic exoskeletons to lug around 100-kilogram hunks of metal as if they’re nothing.

 

 

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Hal Varian, Google’s chief economist, describes life in the robot-run economy

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Will the robot-job apocalypse be good or bad?

There is enough excess billions laying around at Google that they can pay the world’s brightest minds to just think for them. Hal Varian, the famed Berkeley economist, moonlights as Google’s chief economist and responded to Pew’s recent call on tech experts to predict what happens when robots begin to automate the current crop of existing jobs.

 

 

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Artificial intelligence is more dangerous than nuclear weapons: Elon Musk

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AI is something all of us should “keep an eye on.”

Tesla CEO Elon Musk told CNBC back in June that he’d invested in a company called Vicarious that is developing products and services based on artificial intelligence. Musk wasn’t interested in the firm because of that. Instead he was backing the form “to keep an eye on” unforeseen terrifying scenarios where the products began to threaten humanity.

Agriculture, Analysis, Insects, People Making a Difference, Plant Life, Robots, Science & Technology News

RoboBees will pollinate crops instead of real bees

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As soon as 10 years from now these RoboBees could artificially pollinate a field of crops.

Honeybees pollinate nearly one-third of the food we eat but they have been dying at unprecedented rates because of a mysterious phenomenon known as colony collapse disorder (CCD). The situation is so dire that in late June the White House gave a new task force just 180 days to devise a coping strategy to protect bees and other pollinators. The crisis is generally attributed to a mixture of disease, parasites, and pesticides.

 

 

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‘Uncanniest valley’ – when robots know us better than we know ourselves

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Robots don’t judge. Humans do.

Japanese roboticist Mashahiro Mori coined the term “uncanny valley” in 1970 to describe the strange fact that, as robots become more human-like, we relate to them better—but only to a point. The ”uncanny valley” is this point.

 

 

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Jibo – the world’s first family robot for the price of a tablet

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Jibo

Jibo is the world’s first family robot. He can relate to you and will become part of your family. Jibo looks like a sleekly designed minimalist version of R2-D2. Jibo is stout with a big round glassy face and turns to greet you when you walk in the door. (Video)

 

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In the future artificial intelligence will write bestseller fiction

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Robots will write stories that read as if they were written by a human.

Kris Hammond is chief scientist and co-founder of Narrative Science, a company with an artificial intelligence product called Quill that can turn data into stories that read as if they were written by a human.

 

 

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Analysis, Brain, Robots, Science & Technology News

Will killing robots with artificial brains be unethical in the future?

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In the future it’s possible we will be able to create artificially human brains that emulate a real human.

Imagine that in hundreds of years in the future it becomes possible to create an exact replica of any human brain on Earth. How should the copy be treated? Should scientists be allowed to experiment on it and, ultimately, put it down if it is no longer needed? After all, it is merely artificial intelligence (AI).

 

 

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