Word: roboticized
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Hoping to increase the benefits and accessibility of pet therapy, researchers from the Massachussetts Institute of Technology's Robotic Life Group looked to the animatronic teddy bear that keeps Haley Joel Osment's robot-boy company in the movie AI. The researchers have been working since 2005 to engineer an...
Even the security market, says Moore, won't save Segway. Novel technologies must offer a solution to a "broken mission-critical process" to get adopted wholesale. The PT, he observes, offers nothing of the sort. His conclusion? "Segway," he believes, "is a product destined to live in the chasm for...
While machines in movies like The Terminator and 2001: A Space Odyssey are portrayed as threats to humanity, the Japanese are more inclined to see our shiny metal friends as forces for good. Last week Seiji Uchida, who has been paralyzed from the neck down since 1983, came within 150...
Involvement in organized football helps the Aboriginal Greatorex in his job as a police officer. He's juggling the roles of coach, mentor and law enforcer. "Building rapport through the Hawks has paid off immensely in my work," he says. "There might be a big brawl down at the pub...
"Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts ... so this technically makes him a 'cyborg.'"