Johnson & Johnson Announces Agreement to Acquire Auris Health, Inc.
Focused on creating the next frontier of surgery, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), today announced that Ethicon, Inc., entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Auris Health, Inc. for approximately $3.4 billion in cash. Additional contingent payments of up to $2.35 billion, in the aggregate, may be payable upon reaching certain predetermined milestones. Auris Health is a privately...
‘Child’s Play’ reboot trailer suggests Chucky is now a killer robot
It's not completely impossible that robots could turn against us, so it's no surprise killer robot movies have been popular for decades. The fear is real. We could be about to add another flick to the canon, as the new trailer for the Child's Play reboot suggests. Plot details haven't been confirmed yet, so it's not totally certain this Chucky is a robot, but there's...
Mastering Jenga taught this robot real-world physics
Artificial intelligence is already better than humans at video games, quiz shows and an ancient Chinese board game. Next up, the bots are coming for Jenga. In a newly-published paper, scientists from MIT describe how they taught a robot real-world physics and a practical sense of touch by unleashing it on the tricky tower-building game. Why Jenga? Because unlike purely cognitive games that...
iRobot Terra mower cuts your lawn with Roomba-like smarts
If you took a look at newer Roombas and wondered why that clever mapping couldn't be used to cut your lawn... well, you're not alone. iRobot has unveiled the Terra, a robotic lawn mower that uses the company's mapping tech to trim your grass with minimal fuss. Instead of marking your lawn area with boundary wires as you do with many existing...
Sex robot owners swap USED parts and sell ’bruised, battered dolls’ on creepy online forum
SEX ROBOT owners are swapping "used" parts and selling "bruised, battered" dolls on a creepy online forum. Randy bot-bonkers flog their second-hand dolls to each other – sometimes for thousands of pounds apiece. The Doll Forum is the go-to destination for owners of so-called "sex dolls",...
Meet Leonardo, the walking, jumping, flying robot
Traditionally, robots are either airborne or landlubbers – there's not much crossover. But researchers at Northeastern University have now built a robot that can do both, walking around on two legs before jumping and flying short distances to get over obstacles in its path. The first clue to how nimble...
Meet Scout
Amazon continually invests in new technologies to benefit customers. Amazon has been hard at work developing a new, fully-electric delivery system – Amazon Scout – designed to safely get packages to customers using autonomous delivery devices. These devices were created by Amazon, are the size of a small cooler, and roll along sidewalks at a walking pace....
Sophia by Hanson Robotics
In Greek, the word Sophia means wisdom. Sophia was created to help people in real uses like medicine and education, and to serve AI research. Sophia's very existence provokes public discussion regarding AI ethics and the role humans play in society, especially when human-like robots become ubiquitous. Ultimately, she would like to become a wise, empathetic being and make a positive contribution to humankind and all beings. Hanson Robotics designers dream of that future, wherein AI and humans live and work together in friendship and symbiosis to make the world a better place. Human-AI collaboration: That’s what Sophia is all about.
Hanson Robotics
Hanson Robotics is an AI company dedicated to creating living, conscious machines who improve people's lives. Founded by David Hanson, Ph.D., the Hanson team has built a worldwide reputation for creating robots that look and act genuinely alive, including renowned robot character Sophia the Robot. Hanson Robotics innovations in AI research and development, robotics...
Little Sophia by Hanson Robotics
Little Sophia is the little sister of Sophia and the newest member of the Hanson Robotics family. She is 14” tall, and your robot friend that makes STEM, coding and AI a fun and rewarding adventure for kids 7-13 years old, especially girls. Little Sophia can walk, talk, sing, play games and, like her...
