In the video after the break, a swarm of Quadrotors developed by the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab can be seen playing the James Bond theme on “keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and a “guitar” built from a couch frame.”
Amazingly, the quadrotors are pre-programed and performing autonomously.
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Troubled Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn announced that they plan to bring over a million robots onboard to perform repetitive tasks such as spraying, weilding and assembly. The company currently uses 10,000 robots, and employs 1.2 million people. How many jobs will be affected by the switch remains to be seen.
Although the move is being touted as a way to help lower payroll costs and increase efficiency, it seems likely that the negative press surrounding the company also came into play.
(via Know Your Cell)
I knew we should have gone with the printer didn’t have brain, glasses and a tie.
Who knew that “Cyborg Printers” would have turned out to be so shady? In hindsight, maybe using harvested genetic material from death row inmates to create intelligent office machines was a bad idea.
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Finally- someone (or rather) something that’s willing to go where most people dare not ever go: behind your computer.
The Cable Robot Cable Organizer keeps all of those messy chords in line with a robotic level of efficiency—which is great for desktop PC users.
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Robots may may be incapable of displaying emotional love, but this doesn’t mean that they can’t get it on.
(Via:Â SMBC)
Unfortunately for the Stealth Cat robot (who hails from a planet of space cats) he is woefully inadequate in both height and storage size to complete his mission of taking over the world. In fact, armies of these things have been captured by humans, torn in half and shoved in USB drives around the globe.
The Cat bot USB drive measures 3.5-inches tall and features articulated shoulders and neck.
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