Interplanetary Communication With Robots Tested by NASA
image credit: NASA/JPL Nicholas West Activist Post In what is being called a success toward developing “an interplanetary Internet,” NASA and the European Space Agency…
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Pentagon Wants Rescue Robots Built In Time For the Next “Natural Disaster”
Susanne Posel, Contributor Activist Post In the wake of Tropical Storm Sandy, the Pentagon has requested that a team of “rescue robots” be engineered in…
Can Robots Bring Jobs Back to America? (Infographic)
Nicholas West Activist Post A new infographic from KUKARobotics.com (one of the world’s largest makers of industrial robots) argues that robots could actually return the manufacturing…
Shoot to Kill: Autonomous Robots Developed By DARPA Will Not Question Orders
Susanne Posel, Contributor Activist Post The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM) program seeks to find ways to utilize different remote robotic…
Synthetic Police Are Coming: DARPA Engineering Autonomous Robots
Susanne Posel, Contributor Activist Post Because of the risks involved to rescue aid workers and human response teams, DARPA awarded Boston Dynamics, Inc. a $10.9…
DARPA seeks robots which ‘approach the efficiency of human and animal actuation’
image: DARPA Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which acts as a kind of mad scientist arm of the…
5 Ways Robots Are Outsourcing Humans in the Workforce
image source Nicholas West Activist Post The outsourcing of human jobs as a side effect of globalization has arguably contributed to the current unemployment crisis….
Innovations for paraplegics: mind-controlled robots and wheelchairs, electric skin and more
Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post While some researchers continue to focus on creating new technologies with some disturbing applications like mobile phone microchips capable of…
Defense Department to further militarize U.S. law enforcement with hundreds of military robots
(Image credit: U.S. Navy) Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post Last year I reported on the Pentagon’s 1033 Program, wherein local law enforcement agencies can obtain…
DARPA seeks more lifelike humanoid robots in upcoming Grand Challenge
Madison Ruppert, Contributor Activist Post The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is now looking for more lifelike humanoid robots to add to the military’s…
Robots being developed for farms to prevent human exposure to harmful chemicals
Editor’s Note: What happens when humans are exposed to these chemicals when the food reaches our plate? We hope the claim of reducing pesticides is…
Robots May Start Moon Base Construction
Dark Side of Moon – NASA NASA A recent NASA-sponsored report says two remote-controlled droids could build a landing site for a lunar outpost in…
Apple’s Chinese manufacturer to rely on a million robots to build iPhones
image source Reuters HONG KONG/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group, known for assembling Apple’s iPhones and iPads in China, plans to use more robots,…
Nano-robots to conquer tumour cells?
It may sound like science fiction, but the technology of creating nano-scale substances that target and kill tumour cells by heating them up is closer…