Tag Archives: Robots

AutoWed. Importance of marriage reduced to some spare money and machine

AutoWed. Importance of marriage reduced to some spare money and machine

Marriage.  The formal definition of the practice is, “Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship.”  Sounds so special, and it most certainly is, to some.  Unfortunately, nearly 50 percent of all marriages in America end in divorce, and a new, coin-based, method of getting married, Concept Shed’s AutoWed Wedding Machine may result in those figures to rise even higher if the marriage method is made more official. Read more »

RoboButler. A super swift drink serving robot

RoboButler.  A super swift drink serving robot

Robots may soon become a part of our everyday lives.  They have their own world wide web, are capable of cleaning our bathrooms, are becoming ever better at solving puzzles, and realistic robot babies with the possibility of having a solar-powered skin that can touch and feel exist already.  If that wasn’t evidence of enough that robots are becoming omnipresent, Mechanical Engineering students at Delft university of Technology have developed a robot that can deliver drinks swiftly and without spilling a single drop. Read more »

Lingodroids: Robots That Invent Their Own Language

Lingodroids: Robots That Invent Their Own Language

I am in the middle of reading the Ender’s Game series, and my mind has been full of thoughts of aliens, computer programs, and robots as sentient beings. One aspect that has always fascinated me is their means of communication. Language is such a wonderful thing – ever-changing and taking on so many different forms. Of course, we can think all we want about aliens and AI, but we don’t know if we will ever see them become reality in our lifetime. That is why work by people such as Ruth Schulz is so interesting. Schulz and her group of researchers from the University of Queensland and Queensland University of Read more »

Hate cleaning the bathroom? Tell the robot to do it

Hate cleaning the bathroom?  Tell the robot to do it

Anyone with parents intent on providing a little discipline and structure in their children know the dreaded feeling of having to complete chores.  Unfortunately as one grows older it hits you that chores never go away.  Certainly there exist some that you don’t mind doing as much, vacuuming for instance, but there are others that some could do without.  One of those has to be cleaning the bathroom. Read more »