Robots
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Weekly Doomscrolling
[Weeklies] Do Robots Lucid Dream Of Running Marathons?
Have you ever had a lucid dream? You can have something close during a hypnagogic state – that period between…
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Weekly Doomscrolling
[Weeklies] Giant Spires and Tomorrow’s Robots
Welcome to Weeklies, where I recap some of the weird links I’ve shared on the homepage over the past week!…
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Weekly Doomscrolling
[Weeklies] Past Life Studies and More AI Nightmares
Welcome to Weeklies, where I recap my favorite links I’ve shared on the homepage over the past week! Check back…
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3AM Finds
Disney Shows Off New Animatronic With Human-Like Eyes
Disney Research is always up to some weird stuff when it comes to robotics and animatronics. Here, they show off…
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3AM Finds
Affetto the Child Robot: Realistic Facial Expressions and Artificial Pain
Hailing from Osaka University in Japan, Affetto is a robot designed to realistically mimic the facial expressions of a toddler.…
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3AM Finds
The Trons: The Hottest Robot Garage Band of 2008
Hey, there’s this weird band I want to tell you about. Kind of a garage surf sort of thing. The…
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3AM Finds
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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3AM Finds
Robot Dinosaurs Manage Front Desk At Japanese Hotel
There’s a hotel in Japan staffed by robot dinosaurs. I just thought you should know that. Don’t worry; they’re wearing…
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3AM Finds
Video: MIT’s Fish Robot Goes for a Swim
If there’s one thing I really think the world could use more of right now, it’s robot fish. Thankfully, MIT’s…
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3AM Finds
Sophia the Robot Gets Into A Twitter Argument
Sophia gained attention in 2016 when she appeared at SXSW and did an interview with her creator, Dr. David Hanson…
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3AM Finds
Robot Suit Dinosaurs Revealed In Tokyo
Here’s something that slipped by me a few months ago: A group called On-Art Corp in Tokyo unvieled their 8m…
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3AM Finds
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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3AM Finds
The Ghostly Voice of Joseph Faber’s Euphonia
Behold, Joseph Faber’s Euphonia. This curious amalgamation of various mechanical parts was exhibited in December 1845 at the Music Fund…
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Movies
Dug North And His Amazing Automata
I’ve been fascinated with automata ever since playing Syberia and reading Gaby Wood’s intriguing (if not occasionally out-of-focus) book Edison’s…