Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said that in the future, humans will be the pets of robots. Which, given the following, is still an optimistic scenario. And when we imagine the apocalypse, it doesn't usually start with an innocent game of ping pong, but the following footage of an Omron robot playing ping pong with humans and working to easily subdue not only its ping pong opponent but all of humanity suggests that we should also consider such a scenario.
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Artificial intelligence is something fascinating and something scary at the same time when we think about what it is capable of. It comes in all kinds of forms, found in smartphones and other devices like robots. One such is the Musio robot from AKA, which puts a friendly face on artificial intelligence. It is a personal robot that wants to be your friend, that learns and helps with daily household chores, answering e-mails, etc.
Robots are becoming more developed year by year, so they can be used for more and more demanding tasks. As a result, they are more and more embedded in our everyday life. That's why jump to the ninth Industrial Robotics Days (DIR 2015), which will take place from March 30 to April 3, 2015 at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering.
A cube is not the object we think of when we talk about motion. However, Cubli is exactly that - a cube that moves on its own alongside a host of other surprising talents. It was designed at the Institute for Dynamical Systems and Control, ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
What two years ago we saw only as fiction in the excellent computer game Deus Ex: Human Revolution, today is getting closer to everyday life.
From October 10 to 12, the symposium of the international festival of art, technology and science Speculum Artium will be held in Trbovlje, where every year projects representing the intersection between art and science are presented.