Sentences with phrase «than a robot at»

Patrons go for predictability, and no human is better than a robot at following instructions to a T.

Not exact matches

At the end of the day, research has shown that 57 % of people will generally feel more comfortable interacting with another person than they would with an emotionless robot.

A few commentators over at the Lawfare blog, however, took it a step further by suggesting that not only will robots be able to identify hostile targets over innocents, they'll actually do it better than humans.

At $ 22,000 each — less than the price of a minivan — it could easily pay for itself in months, saving a company $ 30,000 a year or more in labor costs per robot.

The Arcadia music festival and its giant scrap metal spider landed at Elizabeth Quay last weekend and lit up Perth's dance scene, but there is more to the fire - breathing robot than meets the eye.

While the gap between the robots we were promised and those we have is even more extreme than the one between promised and actual AI, the field is improving at a frighteningly rapid pace.

That means 32 percent more robots were bought this year than at the same time in 2016 — it's the strongest first quarter on record for robots ordered by North American companies, according to the Robotic Industries Association.

Millions of workers could lose their jobs to robots and artificial intelligence in the future, with some more at risk than others.

That is unless he decides that those are the areas to be cut, rather than Moroccan pottery classes, an empty airport at Lake Murray State Park in Oklahoma, a robot squirrel funded through the National Science Foundation, or the Alabama Watermelon Queen Tour.

By Elly Park NEW YORK (Reuters)- American artist Barnaby Furnas has turned to a custom - made robot to help him with paintings that can sell for more than $ 100,000 at New York...

It is better not to have the feature at all rather than use a binary options robot that has a bad strategy.

The robot has already gained multiple rave reviews since launching at the beginning of the year and has now established a membership of more than 5,000 users.

American artist Barnaby Furnas has turned to a custom - made robot to help him with paintings that can sell for more than $ 100,000 at New York galleries.

LG promised to unveil several robots that seem more sophisticated than the automated cleaning machine that Samsung will debut at CES 2017.

The brokers these robot creators partner with are in most cases, not regulated at all and in more than a few cases, our research showed a high number of complaints posted against them all over the Internet.

The robots were even able to pinpoint and align objects like pins and holes, requiring precision at a scale of less than two millimeters.

But the robot on that fantastic voyage will have to be faster and stronger than this prototype in order to force its way against flowing blood (which travels at about 2 mph).

Several made the point that at First the emphasis is on «gracious professionalism» rather than winning; teams routinely lend labor, parts, even whole robots, to one another.

Similarly, the days of «personal robots» — inexpensive machines that can help out at home or the office — may be closer than we think.

Their 10 - centimeter - long robot, named GoQBot for the Q - shape it forms as it rolls, is powered by shape memory coils that bend at three points to allow it to change its body conformation in less than 100 milliseconds.

If it takes more than five thousandths of a second for the signal to travel to a robot, «it begins to feel like you're working in molasses,» says Joel Jensen, a program manager at sri International, a nonprofit institute that has done groundbreaking work in remote surgery.

«A task - oriented robot would be used for simple services, such as greeting visitors at museums or restaurants, while an interaction - oriented robot is more than likely used for entertainment processes, such as playing music or videos,» said Sundar.

The researchers, who present their findings at the Human - Robot Interaction conference today (March 8), said that participants tended to have a higher sense of accomplishment and rank robots higher when they expected robots to be task - oriented, rather than interaction - oriented.

Passive robots in the form of sedentary animals may be less flashy than a bird skin stretched over a robotic frame, but they can be just as good at keeping tabs on their environment — and significantly less nasty.

Currently, our robots are little more intelligent than sea slugs, and even after decades of clever research, they can barely distinguish figures from a background at the skill level of an infant.

Indeed, robots are ideal for tasks that are too repetitive or dangerous for humans to undertake, and can work 24 hours a day at a lower cost than human workers.

«Even at tail - beat frequencies that were less than optimal for the live fish, the shiners were always more drawn to the naturally colored robot,» Porfiri added.

Each robot has more than doubled its expected lifetime of 90 sols, or Mars days, but the pace continues to be hectic as the team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tries to squeeze even more work out of the plucky pair.

So in this issue Hanson follows that through to a conclusion coming up with tiny insect - like robots with greater than human level intelligence living by the billions in skyscrapers and sort of doing their virtual work at the equivalent of pennies per day and what this leads to, there are two different ideas about what this kind of economic runaway advancement would ultimately lead to.

The time spent by fish in the middle compartment (49.2 s) was the highest when the robot tail - beat frequency was set at 2 Hz and post-hoc comparisons revealed that such time was significantly different than the time spent in the middle compartment for the robot beating its tail at 4 Hz (35.2 s), see Figure 7.

The time spent in compartment B3 (28.5 s) was the highest when the robot tail - beat frequency was set to 3 Hz, and post-hoc comparisons revealed that such time was significantly different than the time spent in B3 for the robot beating its tail at 0 Hz or 2 Hz (24.5 s or 24.6 s, respectively), see Figure 7.

Some of the research covered in the documentary includes scientists who are identifying and characterizing planets orbiting other stars (the other planets in our solar system would likely be more trouble than they're worth to make comfortable, the film argues); an engineer building a rocket fueled by plasma, the same charged particles found in our sun; and a team building a fleet of robots that could construct habitats before humans even arrive at their destination.

Rather than having flying cars, automated robots, and space travel, we've invented new ways to communicate and gotten freakishly good at miniaturization.

As they dispatch one opponent after another, they quickly become an underground sensation in the robot boxing world, eventually finding themselves squaring off against none other than the biggest and baddest robot in the sport, Zeus, whose owner (Olga Fonda) and creator (Karl Yune) they are determined to defeat them at all costs.

And yet, in practice, «Real Steel» turns out to be less toxic than you'd expect, if you take it as a family picture aimed at boys, which it is, and grant that boys have an endless appetite for robot smashing, which they do.

They reluctantly follow the rude, self - centered, manipulative Gary until they discover that there's more at stake than a wasted evening: the whole town has been taken over by robots impersonating the townsfolk.

However, as Piper soon finds, much more is at stake than money; her enemies» actions could put all of robot - kind in danger.

They at least could have made the robots look different than the Transformers.

Sacred Citadel is the odd one out in this week's robot based sale, but at less than $ 3 this 3 player online or offline co-op hack»n' slash RPG is worth a look (despite its flaws).

Rather than take on all three of them at once, I huddled into some nearby tall grass, and lured one over to me by firing specialized ammo which removed some of the robot's components.

If you follow Empire on Twitter, you'll already know that we spent part of the day in Hall H at Comic - Con at the Warner Bros. panel where Peter Jackson unveiled some new Hobbit footage, Zach Galifianakis and Will Ferrell laughed it up with The Campaign, Zach Snyder debuted a first look at Man Of Steel and Guillermo del Toro unveiled Pacific Rim, which features more giant robots fighting giant monsters action than you can shake a giant stick at.

At the end of the day, Sucker Punch can be considered the 2011 fanboy's wet dream — giant samurai warriors wielding Gatling guns, steam powered zombie soldiers, hideous orcs and fire breathing dragons, an overbearing clan of bloodthirsty robots, and scantily clad, young women annihilating their enemies with nothing more than a blade and an endless supply of bullets guarantees that.

But his view changes when Frank looks at the robot as an accomplice rather than a caretaker.

At the center of the storyline is Sonny (Alan Tudyk), a robot who possesses a desire to overcome his rigid programming and become more than just another cog in a very large machine.

At certain points, though, it does seem as if the robots (V.I.N.CENT and old Bob) are more interesting than most of their human co-stars.

Although the students and campus look more like Hefner's guests at the Playboy mansion than a academic institution, the eager freshman barely has time to look around before stumbling across an Internet clip showing a robot attack in China.

The actors are serviceable (Courtney is a much better villain than hero, as seen in the Divergent series), with Ahnold's robot - failing - at - acting - human schtick being the most memorable character impression we're left with.

Look closely at this trailer and the well established hallmarks of steampunk are there: airships, biplanes, robots and brass framed goggles, but the costumes themselves, certainly those of the principal cast including Browning, Abbie Cornish and Vanessa Hudgens, are more Japanese go - go than sexy Wild Wild West (1999, a broad representation of steampunk on film).

Ostensibly based on the same short story that spawned the original Twilight Zone episode «Steel,» it takes no more than the basic premise (a future where human boxing has been replaced with robots, a down - at - heels former boxer trying to get by with failing equipment) and spins a story of father / son bonding and a real jerk of a would - be dad getting a shot at redemption.

This robot's app - based control makes it challenging to actively engage more that two students at a time, but the price point on the Spheros is lower than the Bee - Bots, so while I might need more robots to engage my students in a full - class lesson, the opportunity cost is comparable.