spacecase0
earth human
That sounds handy
That sounds handy
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Man I hear that. I HATE weeding and fantasize about alternatives. Seems like it would clear snow off the driveway too. Handy.
Creepy Green Light
Don't mistake lack of talent for genius
Wow, I had never seen this before. My kids are only 15 & 17 and it's mind boggling what technology/gadgets are going to be around when they are in their 50's
Creepy Green Light
Don't mistake lack of talent for genius
spacecase0
earth human
I have one of them, never weeded with it, but goes through fuel super fast. also can't use it in the summer for saftey reasons
nivek
As Above So Below
nivek
As Above So Below
michael59
Celestial
Why would anyone want a companion that looks like death warmed over?
nivek
As Above So Below
Scientists are turning dead spiders into robots that grip.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnEDe3L1zlQ
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnEDe3L1zlQ
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nivek
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In Japan, there is a cafe that uses robots to serve people that are operated by paralyzed people. The robot controllers earn around 1,000 yen per hour, enabling them to still make an income despite being paralyzed.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuaO8NDYa7M
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuaO8NDYa7M
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pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Creepy. It reminded me of Disney's Hall of Presidents and when I went looking for a clip I found this one. Uhhhhh... is this who's really been in charge? At least this one never trips, up the stairs, twice.
nivek
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South Korean man killed by industrial robot that identified him as a box
An industrial robot grabbed and crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigated whether the machine was defective or improperly designed. Police said early evidence suggests that human error was more likely to blame rather than problems with the machine itself. Still, the incident triggered public concern about the safety of industrial robots and the false sense of security they may give to humans working nearby in a country that increasingly relies on such machines to automate its industries.Police in the southern county of Goseong said the man died of head and chest injuries Tuesday evening after he was snatched and pressed against a conveyor belt by the machine's robotic arms. Police did not identify the man but said he was an employee of a company that installs industrial robots and was sent to the plant to examine whether the machine was working properly.
South Korea has had other accidents involving industrial robots in recent years. In March, a manufacturing robot crushed and seriously injured a worker who was examining it at an auto parts factory in Gunsan. Last year, a robot installed near a conveyor belt fatally crushed a worker at a milk factory in Pyeongtaek.
The machine that caused Tuesday's death was one of two pick-and-place robots used at the facility, which packages bell peppers and other vegetables exported to other Asian countries, police said. Such machines are common in South Korea's agricultural communities, which are struggling with a declining and aging workforce.
"It wasn't an advanced, artificial intelligence-powered robot, but a machine that simply picks up boxes and puts them on pallets," said Kang Jin-gi, who heads the investigations department at Gosong Police Station. He said police were working with related agencies to determine whether the machine had technical defects or safety issues.
Another police official, who did not want to be identified because he wasn't authorized to talk to reporters, said police also were looking into the possibility of human error. The robot's sensors are designed to identify boxes, and security video indicated the man had moved near the robot with a box in his hands which likely triggered the machine's reaction, the official said.
"It's clearly not a case where a robot confused a human with a box — this wasn't a very sophisticated machine," he said.
According to data from the International Federation of Robotics, South Korea had 1,000 industrial robots per 10,000 employees in 2021, the highest density in the world and more than three times the number in China that year. Many of South Korea's industrial robots are used in major manufacturing plants in industries such as electronics and automaking.
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nivek
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The valet robot is a low, extendable cart with grippers for the wheels. It drives under the bottom and pushes the grips under the wheels. Police in China are now using it to re-park illegally parked cars to the nearest legal parking space instead of towing them away.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfRLuoq-NrA
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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfRLuoq-NrA
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SOUL-DRIFTER
Life Long Researcher
Nonsense...
nivek
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Miniature marvels: Wireless millirobots successfully navigate arteries
(Excerpt)In the experiment, the researchers used a robotically controlled rotating magnetic field to control the millirobots wirelessly. With an X-ray machine, they were able to localize the millirobot while steering through the aorta. The researchers maintained a maximum arterial flow of 120 ml per minute inside the aorta. But with a stronger magnetic field, the millirobots should be able to overcome a greater blood flow. The millirobots performed stable straight runs with and against the flow, and also with multiple robots at the same time.
The robots themselves are 3D-printed, screw-shaped objects with a small permanent magnet inside. "This tiny magnet of just one millimeter long and one millimeter in diameter is placed in such a way that it can rotate the 'screw' in both ways. This allows for swimming against the flow and then turning around and swimming back," explains Khalil. The small size makes it possible to use several robots at the same time. And the screw shape makes it possible to drill through a blood clot.
"These millirobots have huge potential in vascular surgery," says Michiel Warle, a vascular surgeon at Radboudumc. "Currently, we use blood thinners and flexible tools, but a millirobot can travel to hard-to-reach arteries while they only need minimal incisions to be inserted." In a new collaboration with Radboudumc and Triticum Medical (Israel), the researchers will further develop the millirobots to enable them to remove blood clots wirelessly. The consortium will look at ways to exploit this technology fostering collaborative growth in medical robotics and technical medicine.
Besides breaking up the blood clots to enable the blood flow of arteries, the technology can potentially be used for other targeted interventions. "The robots can deliver drugs to very specific places in the body where the drug is needed the most. That way we have minimal side effects in the rest of the body," explains Khalil.
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nivek
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Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer at company's Texas factory during violent malfunction - leaving 'trail of blood' and forcing workers to hit emergency shutdown button
A Tesla engineer was attacked by a robot during a brutal and bloody malfunction at the company's Giga Texas factory near Austin. Two witnesses watched in horror as their fellow employee was attacked by the machine designed to grab and move freshly cast aluminum car parts. The incident - which left the victim with an 'open wound' on his left hand - was revealed in a 2021 injury report filed to Travis county and federal regulators. It comes as data shows one in every 21 Giga Texas workers was injured on the job in 2022. But now an attorney aiding contract laborers at the factory tells DailyMail.com that there's evidence Tesla may have under-reported accidents to state and federal regulators.
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