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Ibuki is the 10-year-old robot child that will haunt your dreams
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro makes robots in Osaka. His latest robot, Ibuki, is one for the nightmare catalog: It’s a robotic 10-year-old boy that can move on little tank treads and has a soft rubbery face and hands. The robot has complete vision routes that can scan for faces and it has a sort of half-track…
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This robot uses AI to find Waldo, thereby ruining Where’s Waldo
If you’re totally stumped on a page of Where’s Waldo and ready to file a missing persons report, you’re in luck. Now there’s a robot called There’s Waldo that’ll find him for you, complete with a silicone hand that points him out. Built by creative agency Redpepper, There’s Waldo zeroes in and finds Waldo with…
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Want an extra arm? A third thumb? Check out these awesome robotic appendages
Ever wished for a pair of extra arms, a third leg, or a sixth finger on each hand? Check out this list of amazing robo-prosthetics which promise to take your multitasking to the next level. The post Want an extra arm? A third thumb? Check out these awesome robotic appendages appeared first on Digital Trends.…
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C’en est fini de Musical.ly !
Peut-être avez vous déjà vu des vidéos de gens dansant et chantant n’importe où, sur une musique bien connue. C’est ce que proposait le service Musical.ly. Au passé, parce que le service a disparu ! Lire la suite Source: C’en est fini de Musical.ly !
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Google Home’s too boring? You want Gatebox’s cute virtual character in your life
Do you want to share your life with a virtual character? If so, then your dream has taken one step closer to reality thanks to Gatebox. Like Alexa, it will control your smart home; but the character that lives inside the Gatebox has the ability to recognize, interact, and even celebrate with you. The post…
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Master Replicas Group’s HAL-9000 Bluetooth speaker is now on Indiegogo
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s classic science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey. To commemorate the occasion, Master Replicas Group has opened preorders for its replica of the film’s iconic computer HAL-9000. The company announced earlier this year that it would produce the replica, which would also double as a speaker. At…
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A rare Magic: The Gathering card just sold for more than a Porsche
An Alpha Black Lotus game card just sold on eBay for $88,000, proving that collectible game cards from Magic: The Gathering continue to appreciate in value. The card’s scarcity and Gem Mint condition led to its record-breaking sale price. The post A rare Magic: The Gathering card just sold for more than a Porsche appeared…
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Magic Leap details what its mixed reality operating system will look like
Magic Leap just updated its developer documentation with a host of new details and imagery, sharing more specifics on how the company’s Lumin OS will look like on their upcoming Magic Leap One device. It’s mostly a large heaping of nitty-gritty details, but we also get a more prescient view into how Magic Leap sees…
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Animatronic Puppet Takes Cues From Animation Software
Lip syncing for computer animated characters has long been simplified. You draw a set of lip shapes for vowels and other sounds your character makes and let the computer interpolate how to go from one shape to the next. But with physical, real world puppets, all those movements have to be done manually, frame-by-frame. Or do…
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Amazon Rekognition Falsely Matched 28 Members of Congress to Mugshots
YOU ARE NOT A MATCH. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) just spent $12.33 to test a system that could quite literally cost people their lives. On Thursday, the nonprofit organization, which focuses on preserving the rights of U.S. citizens, published a blog post detailing its test of Rekognition, a facial identification tool developed and sold…
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