Sentences with phrase «generation of robots»

Proyas, in the requisite HBO behind - the - scenes glorified press release, called I, Robot a documentary of the future; I call it an astonishingly bloated misfire with glints of gold here and there (a new generation of robots are called «Nestors» — apparently named by someone early on in the screenwriting process after the peacemaker between Agamemnon and Achilles during the Trojan War), buried beneath all the simpering, condescending idiot - rhetoric of Akiva Goldsman, who, if he leaves a smart reference in a script, makes double - sure to explain it in small words for an audience he presumes is several times stupider than he is.

The anticipated future growth - and perceived weaknesses of the current generation of robots - is attracting deep - pocketed rivals, including Medtronic Inc and a startup backed by Johnson & Johnson and Google.

To create the next generation of robots, Floreano recombined the genes of those that proved fittest — those that had managed to get the biggest charge out of the food source.

The model is one of their first generation of robots, already on sale.

The Jump Glider could be the first in a new generation of robots, harnessing aerodynamic lift to travel further than it would if it simply hopped, and without using additional energy.

What is for certain is that the next generation of robots will urge us to rethink our meaning and contribution to both work and society.

One of their flagship efforts is a lunar rover concept vehicle called Scarab, which may be the forebear to future generations of robots that will scour the moon for concentrations of hydrogen, water, and volatile chemicals that would be critical for supporting a lunar colony.

Not exact matches

Such research could one day help lead to next - generation brain - machine interfaces for controlling prosthetics, exoskeletons and robots, as well as «electroceuticals» to treat disorders of the brain and body.

The Gundam series, which has been on Japanese TV since the 1970s, captured the imagination of a whole generation and continues to be popular to this day, with a «real - life size» 20 meter (65 feet) high Gundam robot mechanical statue even becoming the latest tourist attraction in Tokyo.

Second generation pharmacist TJ Parker, and his co-founder Elliot Cohen, had a compelling vision of a robot - powered pharmacy.

The M410 - iC / 185 is the first of a new generation of palletising robots that combines FANUC's proven 99.99 % reliability with tangible improvements in performance, allowing food and beverage manufacturers to palletise heavier loads faster and stack pallets higher.

A new generation of lightweight, assistive robots looks to provide small to medium enterprises (SMEs) with new options to improve their competitiveness and meet the challenges of high costs and a shortage of skilled workers.

Turns out your scribblings on twittering zombie robot armies are influencing the next generation of legal minds.

Funded through NASA's In Situ Resource Utilization program, Scarab is part of a generation of autonomous robots meant to take human risk out of prospecting for resources in increasingly hostile, remote locales.

«This energy saving opens up a world of new possibilities for surveillance and other uses, from robots and drones to the next generation of retinal implants,» she said.

A second generation of universal robot with a mouselike 100,000 MIPS will adapt as the rst generation does not and will even be trainable.

Thus in the early generations, most of the machines bumbled about randomly, but gradually, as «mutations» made changes in the robots» behavior, some of them stumbled onto productive sequences of behaviors.

At the end of each simulated generation the robots with the most productive behaviors were more likely to «survive» and go on to take part in future generations.

After 300 to 600 generations, the program had evolved robots with various ways of getting around.

Simulations of miniature robots that «evolve» helping behaviors have now provided a possible answer, confirming a 47 - year - old theory that recently has come under attack: We help those who are most related to us because they are able to pass some of our genes to the next generation.

The composite robots, reported online September 12 in Nature Communications, pave the way for a new generation of machines that can change their shape on the fly.

While Predator drones prove their mettle in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a new generation of far smaller flying robots is taking shape in various labs.

But a new generation of experimental robots are capable of precisely this kind of self - maintenance and transformation.

Decades - old fears of networked robots running out of control may become more salient as next - generation robots are linked to the Web, but at the same time they will become more familiar as people employ domestic robots to do household chores.

But if these robots are to become «the next generation of planetary rovers,» Bongard points out, «you can't assume that this robot can perform hundreds of thousands of trials.

Their efforts to build humanoid machines vary, but they all bring something to the table; in the end, it is by aggregating the best of these efforts that the new robot generation will emerge.

Unlike earlier generations of soft robots, which could stand and awkwardly walk by inflating air chambers in their bodies, the new robots are designed to be far nimbler.

For tail - beat frequencies of 2 Hz and 4 Hz, the time intervals between the generation of the vortices was lapse or compact, respectively, confirming that the shape and distribution of vortical structures in the robot's wake is controlled by its undulations.

The E.T., or R2 - D2 character, is a slender, blue - eyed almost - human robot of an earlier generation named Atom, rescued from a junkyard and adopted by Max (Dakota Goyo), Charlie's estranged 11 - year - old son.

John Boyega heads up a new generation of Jaeger pilots in this welcome sequel to the enjoyably bombastic giant - robot - versus - giant - monsters battle royale.

A Volkswagen / Stanford University team, one of the few to complete the 2007 DARPA contest, built their third - generation «Junior» autonomous car not long ago, and General Motors plans to start field testing its EN - V concept, a two - seater that looks like the scuttlebug robot pod of your worst nightmare, in the next few years.

Robotech / Voltron # 1: It's a crossover between two of the great anime franchises of the 1980s: Robotech, a story about three generations of scavenger soldiers who found and repurposed alien technology to fight more aliens, and Voltron, the story of the five Lions who unite to become the single robot Voltron.

This should come as a welcome relief to all those who are opting for the Streak as with 1.6 version pre-installed, many thought it would take ages to reach version 2.2 of the OS if Dell had opted to upgrade the OS incrementally and by the time they had caught up with the Froyo, the chubby green robot may have marched another few generation ahead.

Many thought it would take ages to reach version 2.2 of the OS if Dell had opted to upgrade the OS incrementally and by the time they had caught up with the Froyo, the chubby green robot may have marched another few generations ahead.

Other known titles include The Getaway and Killzone - a pair of Sony Europe franchises which threaten to look very impressive on the next - generation format - and the likes of Formula 1, Fight Night, and even Mobile Suit Gundam, which made us think that perhaps stompy robot games are about to find new feet.

Then there's the random character generation — I've played as a cat lady, a grey haired ninja woman, a robot with a flashing red light on his head and many other great random builds that I just want to take home and feed up and keep safe instead of sending into a dungeon.

Voice of Steel is a third person physical - based next - generation robot fighting game where you take control of a robot fighting other robots, but with your own custom moves.

Following on from our Super Robot Chogokin Shin Getter Robo 1 review it seems only to fit to cover Mazinkaiser, very much the follow on generation of brothers in super robot arms so to speak.

Landing in a crater of hype bigger than any imprint left by the plummeting robots of its title, Titanfall is the biggest game of the new console generation so far.

The universal reaction to Atlas, the newly upgraded next - generation humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics (a company owned by Alphabet), was lots of empathy.

Just in time for Cyber Monday, the company has revealed the eighth generation of its fulfilment centers with Kiva robots at the heart of the operations.

Boston Dynamics has published a new video detailing the next generation of Atlas, the humanoid robot we've watched «grow up» over the past couple of years.

While there, she led a team of engineers developing next - generation robot hardware and software, including ROS, the PR2 and TurtleBot.

Xiaomi's Mi Robot is one of the best robot vacuum cleaners around, and with the second - generation model, the brand is rolling out a wet clean option.

Melonee Wise came to Fetch Robotics after founding and running Unbounded Robotic, a spin - off of Willow Garage where she led a team of engineers developing next - generation robot hardware.

As such, the emergence of this new generation of workplace robots has already lead to an increase in demand for IT professionals, or «robot creators» with particularly niche areas of expertise: