Welcome to the world’s greatest two minutes in Robotics. The 2019-2020 game VEX Robotics Competition, Tower Takeover. Tower Takeover is played on a 12ft by 12ft field by two alliances, one red and one blue, made up of two teams each. The object of the game is to get more points than the other alliance…
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This Bricklaying Robot Can Build Walls Faster Than Humans (HBO)
— In Congress today, a House subcommittee approved draft legislation that would allow manufacturers to put up to 100,000 driverless vehicles per year on the road. It’s a step towards robots replacing us behind the wheel— and phasing out taxi and truck drivers. That’s a ways off, but there’s one robot named SAM who doesn’t…
Future Military Robots Explained
Our wars used to be fought on foot, but then we harnessed horses for battle. Swords were our weapon of choice until guns were invented. Chariots slowly evolved into tanks, and in less than 100 years this [picture of the wright bros], turned into this . But the change that’s now underway will be the…
Robots Teaching Themselves to See
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Beyond bionics: how the future of prosthetics is redefining humanity
Lose your arm and it’s like: ‘Oh, woe is me. Life sucks.’ Six years later, here I am, hopefully about to develop some of the best technology for people out there. Evolution hasn’t stopped just because we are here. We probably are becoming the first species that is capable to influence its own evolution. I…
AI Aliens
This video is sponsored by CuriosityStream. Get access to my streaming video service, Nebula, when you sign up for CuriosityStream using the link in the description. We often worry about humanity being destroyed by aliens or artificial intelligence, but why not get two for the price of one? So today we return to the Alien…
Yale Study: Robots Help Children with ASD Improve Their Social Skills
>>ROCCO: The dog doesn’t let me go on the swing because whenever I do, he’ll, um, start barking.>>ROCCO’S MOM: Rocco was diagnosed at age 3 with autism and he…*laughs*.>>DR. SCASSELLATI: Autism spectrum disorder is a spectrum. But one of the things that you see across the spectrum is a difficulty with social interaction.>>ROCCO’S MOM: He…
Artificial Intelligence, When Should We Trust It?
There’s a strong human tendency to anthropomorphize everything. If you stub your toe on a rock then you can be angry at the rock. So it doesn’t take much to start assigning intelligence or imagining intelligence in something. Artificial intelligence is a very broad term that can have many possible meanings. I think of it…
The Most Advanced Robots in the World
When I say “robot”, what do you picture? If it’s a humanoid collection of metal and wires, stomping around as it cleans your house or offers drinks to your guests, well yeah, that would probably be considered a robot. And if you’re imagining the opposite, with a Skynet-style intelligence destroying or enslaving humanity, well they’d…
Valkyrie: NASA’s Superhero Robot
Meet Valkyrie, Valkyrie 1. 6’2. 125 kilograms. Superhero Robot We really wanted to to design the appearances of this robot to be one that was just, when you saw it, you were going to be like: Wow that’s, that’s awesome. So it’s a 44 degree of freedom robot. Very capable Very strong. Completely self-contained We…