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10/06/2018 / By RJ Jhonson

Walt Disney wants to create humanoid “stuntbots” to replace actors in high-flying stunts

In the future, action movies could be crediting robots, too. Walt Disney Studios is developing humanoid robots designed to perform high-flying and dangerous stunts for its movies and live theater shows. The “stuntbots,” also known as stuntronics, combine lasers, accelerometers, and gyroscopes to keep track of and correct their position in real time. These advanced […]

07/10/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Atlas, the “world’s most dynamic humanoid”, is able to run, hop, bend, and move just like a real person

The mythical Atlas is a strong but stupid Titan who is forced to bear the weight of the world on his shoulders as punishment for fighting against the Greek gods. Boston Dynamics’ much more unnerving Atlas is a humanoid robot that can bend, hope, move, and run like a human being, a Live Science article stated. Built […]

11/07/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Robot automation can fill grocery orders in minutes, dramatically reducing reliance on human workers

U.K. online grocer Ocado used to take about two hours to put together an order of 50 items for a customer. A human worker would go around and collect the various meats, produce and dairy products the customer requested and put the order together manually. Now, however, they’ve found a way to get the job […]

10/01/2017 / By Jayson Veley

Scientists develop Terminator robot “super strength” material that could allow military hunter-killers to strangle you to death

It seems as though the more we experiment with robotics, the more the classic 1984 film Terminator becomes something much more than just a fictional story produced in Hollywood. Scientists today have found ways to develop robots that can speak and think in ways eerily similar to those of real human beings, robotic animals that […]

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