Inventions & Tech
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Uncanny: This 19th Century Automaton Will Give You Nightmares
The uncanny valley can be a terrifying place – a place of strange dolls, unsettling computer animation, and people who…
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Artists Can Now “Step Into” Their Drawings With Virtual Reality
Here’s a very cool video featuring Disney animator Glen Keane. Keane is best known for his work on character animation…
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Cambridge Researchers Build Robot That Builds More Robots
If, for some reason, you’re worried that the Robot Apocalypse might not actually happen, I have some good news. University…
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USA vs. Japan Giant Robot Duel: Challenge Accepted
On June 30, 2015, Megabots, Inc. challenged Japan’s Suidobashi Heavy Industries to a duel — a giant robot duel, that…
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Scientists Link Monkey Brains to Create Monkey “Brainet”
Single brain-machine interfaces are already an incredible technology, and we’ve seen them at work with robotics and even flying quadrotors. But scientists at…
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2015: The Year of a Robot Wedding…and a Robot Duel?
On June 27, 2015, a historic event took place: Yukirin and Frois got married. Not a huge deal, on the…
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Edison’s Talking Dolls Speak Once More
In 1890, Thomas Edison unleashed his infamous talking dolls – the first of their kind, each containing a phonograph with…
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