Science & Tech
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Japan’s Lovot Companion Robot Hopes to Change the World
In 1984, The Terminator promised me a robot apocalypse circa 2029. And yet, we haven’t quite reached our inevitable obliteration…
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ESA Astronaut Introduces Cimon, the Floating Spherical Robot Aboard the ISS
“What are your commands?” asks the spherical robot as it floats through space. Inch by little inch, we’re getting closer…
Virtual News Anchors Hit Airwaves In China
China’s Xinhua News Agency, alongside the Chinese search engine Sogou.com, have revealed what they call the “world’s first artificial intelligence…
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Boston Dynamics Shows Off “Parkour Atlas” Robot
There was a time when you may have looked at Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot and thought, hey, I could outrun…
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AI Discovers Even More Unexplained Radio Bursts 3 Billion Light Years Away
Repeated and unexplained radio pulses from deep space have led astronomers to consider some intriguing possibilities. On August 26, 2017,…
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Japan’s Space Agency Successfully Lands Rovers On Asteroid
I don’t know if anyone noticed, but this website erupted in a nightmare the other day. Stranger Dimensions went down…
Robot Dinosaurs Manage Front Desk At Japanese Hotel
There’s a hotel in Japan staffed by robots. But not just any kind of robots. As you walk up to…
Engineers Developing “Self-Eating” Rockets That Don’t Leave A Mess
You probably can’t tell from all the way down here, but Earth is developing a pretty big space debris problem.…
If Aliens Are Out There, Maybe They Should Run
Where are all the aliens? asks Russian theoretical physicist Alexander Berezin in his new paper, titled “‘First in, last out’…
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Scientists Head to Loch Ness for Water Samples And Nessie DNA
Loch Ness is nearly 23 miles long and two miles wide, with depths of over 745 feet. And in those…