Incredible advances in humanoid robotics, or why is Ameca so cute?

I’ve always wanted to build a human-like robot. It’s a dream still from my childhood, when I used to build pseudo-intelligent driving robots out of LEGO bricks (which never lived to see the sequel), moving hands catching balls (without the sequel arm) or head symbols in the form of flat structures, full of interactions, adequate to the simple electronics of the 90s world. My current management tools have the name TransistorsHead.com, a reference to the youthful days of “heads on

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Boston Robotics, OpenAI Robot Neo or Tesla Optimus? See what the latest constructions from well-known companies can do

When I was a teenager, I used to construct robots from LEGO bricks, and my flagship project was a hand, movable at the wrist and with moving fingers. I could grasp a ball or a bottle with it, but I had problems controlling the motors and the precision of the movements. Those were the days of TTL digital circuits, not Arduino kits. However, there was something fascinating and at the same time very mysterious about copying nature, even with blocks.

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Could an artificial manager look just like this?

I have always been fascinated by robots of all kinds, from LEGO robots to more sophisticated devices built on programmable circuits and microcontrollers. When I started working on the topic of automating the work of a manager, I had to put aside considerations of the physicality of an artificial manager and deal first with the theory that would allow this robot to be built (System of Organizational Terms), and then with software that records the work of a human manager

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Dr Michio Kaku: what is the fourth industrial revolution and what does it mean for humanity?

The first industrial revolution was the invention of the steam engine, the second was the spread of electricity. One has to include the application of silicon technology to commonplace devices, or more commonly, the invention of the transistor. And what is the fourth industrial revolution that will change our world again? You can probably guess what this invention is all about. It’s artificial intelligence. In his lecture, interspersed with funny anecdotes from the life of theoretical physicists and their impact

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Yuval Noah Harari: What is the future of the world in the age of artificial intelligence?

“Artificial intelligence will change the ecological system on Earth.” Why is such a statement justified? The answer can be found in the following video, which is worth watching in order to realize how important for us is the appearance of a physical representation (maybe not exactly physical, but almost physical…) of artificial intelligence. “So far, for 4 billion years, the Earth’s ecosystem has consisted only of natural organisms, and now we have the beginning of an era in which organisms

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