Robots
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You Can Pretend To Murder This Adorable Robotic Balloon Dog
Unless artist Jeff Koons, known for his giant balloon dog sculptures, decides to get litigious, Moose Toys will be introducing some competition for Sony’s Aibo later this year with Squeakee, the world’s first robotic balloon dog that could potentially put clowns and birthday party entertainers out of business.
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Watch Researchers Giggle While They Electrocute A Lifelike Robot Child
It seems we’ve learned absolutely nothing from cautionary tales like the Terminator films, because researchers in Japan have upgraded a robot that looks like a human child with the ability to feel the pain from an electrical charge applied to its skin and wince in pain.
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Robot That Can Perform ‘Supermicrosurgery’ Passes First Test In Humans
A surgical robot capable of reconnecting vessels with diameters as tiny as 0.3 millimetres has been tested on human patients, and the results are promising.
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Ghost In The Shell: SAC_2045’s Latest Trailer Is Jazzy As Hell
Ghost in the Shell didn’t exactly need a CGi reimagining to make its story about technologically enhanced humans any more interesting, but this is an age in which all things under the sun end up being rebooted when IP owners decide that the ground’s gone fallow enough. Netflix has dropped a new trailer for Ghost…