It's like the Jetsons cartoon, but it doesn't fly. Food delivery at a high tech campus in Central New York is coming from an autonomous robot from Starship Technologies.
Have you heard about Jibo? It's being called the world's first family robot and is capable of performing many different tasks. Watch the presentation video and be amazed at what this robot can do.
Covers of the Stan Bush anthem 'The Touch' -- known to geeks from its use in 1986's 'Transformers: The Movie' -- are nothing new. But covers of 'The Touch' performed by an all-Transformer band? Now that's something we don't see every day.
Many Sci-Fi movies have long shown autonomous flying robots taking care of menial tasks like delivering lunch, doing repairs etc. The future is here and it's taking on the food-service industry first.
Sadly, Matt Groening's long-running cartoon 'Futurama' was canceled earlier this week after seven seasons and 140 episodes on two different networks. Yes, we'll miss Fry, Leela and the rest of the crew, but we'll miss Bender, the acerbic, cigar-chomping robot, the most. But it's not all bad news -- Bender has rightfully earned himself a place among the most memorable robots in pop culture.
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When I made my predictions in December 2012, one of them was that we were going to see the use of robots more and more in 2013. It appears that I've gotten this one right. What makes this story even more exciting to me is that it's happening where I went to school in West Seneca New York.
It was recently revealed that Facebook now has one billion users -- that's 15% of the world’s population. That’s a pretty impressive achievement for Mr. Zuckerburg, if you ask us. There’s no denying the top-notch social network has become integrated into our daily lives, and now there's a way to be physically rewarded by the site -- ‘Like-A-Hug.'
If you have nightmares of robots taking over the world, this video won’t help. It is, however, an impressive display of technology as a perfectly synchronized group of ‘bots dance in time to Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller.’ All hail our toe-tapping mechanical overlords!
In the 1980s, the use of robots in movies was a clear sign of the future ahead. Without the use of mechanical bots in those movies, we'd never have classics like I, Robot. Of course, you had your classic robots of the day like R2-D2 or C-3P0, but what about the others? We
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