Sentences with phrase «like robot arm»

Monkeys are being trained to control what might be the world's most sophisticated and human - like robot arm.

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She considers Nest Labs» Internet - connected thermostats as being a type of robot that can sense changes in its environment like rising temperature and then make adjustments based on a person's personal habits, even though those thermostats don't have arms or heads like people expect robots to have.

The advocacy group argues for a ban on fully autonomous, armed machines, in fear that their development will ultimately result in a Terminator - like situation where robots end up killing innocent humans.

At a tech conference today, Google announced the new Google Home product, a small cylinder that looks like a robot that's missing its head and arms.

To prevent barista wrist, Rosenberg encourages holding the tamp like a doorknob or a flashlight, angling your arm like you're doing the robot, and pressing till the coffee presses back.

I don't really know anything about anime, but every time I watch Ace Sanders here (and I've watched this, like, 40 times, easy), I think about one of those anime scenes where the guy with the dinosaur hair has his arm explode and turn into an even bigger arm that's actually a nuclear bomb and there's all this FLASHING and SQUEALING going on and a factory turns into a robot that knows how to turn its arms into nuclear bombs and the backgrounds are all just PINK SPEED LINES and nothing makes any sense and everyone's SCREAMING.

Such robotic arms with human - like richness of touch are also being used to perform complex tasks in surgical robots, rescue, services and industry.»

Feynman dreamed of robotic arms that would assemble ever - smaller versions of themselves until they could place individual atoms like bricks in a wall (doomsayers have responded with the nightmare version: self - replicating tiny robots dissolving the world into «gray goo»).

It's also why the SSCO has outfitted a warehouse - like structure at the edge of the Goddard campus with robot arms and mock - up satellite parts.

The 500 - pound, 5 - foot - tall robot was much larger than the 12 - pound, 32 - inch - tall monkey whose neural signals were directing it, and this underscored a simple yet remarkable point: Implant technology could enable brainpower to control a huge object (like a robot crane) or a tiny one (like a microscopic surgical tool) just as easily as a life - size mechanical arm.

A SCADA sends instructions to shopfloor machines like pumps, valves, robot arms and motors.

Meanwhile, new technologies allow engineers to dream beyond designing glorified mechanical arms: So - called «swarm bots» work together like army ants to move relatively heavy objects; a fire hose — cum - snake robot can slither across the floor before putting out a blaze; and Nissan is developing an avoidance system to prevent car crashes based on bees — which use their compound eyes to see nearly all the way around themselves while buzzing about, changing direction when they sense something in their path.

The best you're going to do there is Luna, a human - size «robot» that will soon be widely available from a company called RoboDynamics in Santa Monica, California, for $ 3,000 — incredibly cheap for a humanoid, but incredibly expensive for a device that can't do much more than try not to bump into furniture and senior citizens as it desultorily wheels itself around your home, toting a tray of drinks you've carefully placed on its precarious, pipe - like «arms.»

Fifty - eight of the 60, he said, raised their hands when asked if they would like to halt further development of armed autonomous robots.

«In place of the robots... you've got two associates lining up with a big, old spot welder hanging from the ceiling by a chain, and you've got one associate kind of like balancing it and trying to get the welder in position, and you've got another welder with his arm guiding it,» the paper reported, adding: «Sparks go flying.»

A robot arm fires the same ceramic material as the hand - held gun but can be more efficient and faster — complicated one - off items like many exhaust manifolds need the skill and eye of a human to get right.

As I was firing at the robots, dodging lasers and blocking them back with my shield, I realized I was virtually moving around completely on what felt like a docking platform in some space city, but in reality I was dancing around in a hotel meeting room in the middle of downtown Chicago waving my arms around like a madman.

- focuses on Aki Light, a regular, everyday kid who also happens to be schoolboy robot - Aki has the ability to transform into Mega Man's iconic armor, complete with the Mega Buster arm cannon and helmet - Rush will be a part of the series - new characters, like Mega Mini, will make their debut - will debut in 2017, to coincide with Mega Man's 30th anniversary - Dentsu Entertainment and DHX Media are working in collaboration with Man of Action Entertainment - show will reflect Mega Man's «unflinching wide - eyed optimism and over-the-top sense of humor»

While players are used to cute girls (as Harada defended Chloe), robots and demons in fighting games, it can begin to be too much when you start having the likes of pandas, robo - lolitas armed with chainsaws (yeah, Alisa), and boxing raptors.

What we do get to see are a ton of the sorts of projects they have in mind: a 13 - key piano, a fishing rod, a camera, what looks like a giant sized controllable brush bot, and a robot kit that uses elastic tension cords to translate the wearer's arm movements into digital inputs.

You pilot a robot that's reminiscent of Front Mission and fight other robots in arena - like stages using small arms, rocket launchers, and plain old mecha fists.

One particular robot resembled a television with arms and hands that would fly to my cameras and hold them, replacing my video feed with a still image of the corridor to make it look like everything was fine.

Armed Seven has a distinctly Armored Core / Real Robot feel, Supercharged Robot Vulkaiser looks like it would have fit right in with the cartoonish 70s Super Robot animes, and Witch - bot Meglilo has a cute female robot girl as the protagonist.

The other Metanet project in the works, Robotology (which I brought up a few weeks ago), also received a new teaser image showing the Department of Robotology's coat of arms — it looks like a group of mechs that attach to form a Voltron-esque robot and fight giant space monsters.

The trailer began with the recurring phrase: «This is a fantasy based on reality» and demonstrated new gameplay footage such as combat scenes with swords and guns, controlling a tank - like vehicle, climbing aboard a bipedal robot, and battling a huge creature (presumably from the TGS trailer), and Noctis facing off against a group of armed soldiers.

The game takes place in an unspecified future where soldiers use state - of - the - art technologies like heavy duty nanosuits, drones, armed jeeps and powerful, spider - like, combat robots.

There's none of that gentlemanly taking it in turns as if you are merely playing a game of chess with big, armed robots here, no it's all completely in real - time just like a real war, well a pretend war considering that we're talking about giant robots here.

Most of the time she wanks away, like one of her robot arms, at student politics.

The battery swapping stations would look like gas stations, and the swapping will be done by one dimensional robot arms that take the battery from under the car, within 3 minutes

If one of the robot's arms hits something, like a person, it immediately stops moving.

The fact that conferences like the one held by Chatham House are happening shows how the challenge of killer robots has vaulted to the top rank of traditional multilateral arms control and humanitarian disarmament, validating the importance and urgency of the issue and undercutting arguments that fully autonomous weapons are «inevitable» and «nothing to worry about.»

That changed late last year when Google's own high - risk, high - reward technology lab — Google X — bought a string of companies that make robot legs, arms, eyes, wheels, and brains, with the apparent goal of building something like an android.