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EYE OF SAURON: Soon Facebook will offer a creepy reconnaissance robot that can record and post your every move

March 28, 2018 -

Posted by Ethan Huff

(Natural News) Not to be outdone by Amazon with its highly invasive “Alexa” spy tool, social media giant Facebook has reportedly filed a patent with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a self-balancing robot that could one day follow Facebook users around their homes and workplaces and take photos, capture video, and monitor […]

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Robots now automating the harvesting of cucumbers in Germany

February 17, 2018 -

Posted by Edsel Cook

(Natural News) As part of an international effort to revitalize cucumber farming, a European team presented a prototype robot that could replace human workers, stated a ScienceDaily article. The dual-arm robot falls under the European Union’s CATCH project. It’s considered a major step in automating and preserving the practice of crop cultivation in Germany. Cucumbers are […]

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Your barista is being replaced by a robot, already in use in Japan

February 15, 2018 -

Posted by Edsel Cook

(Natural News) Meet Sawyer, the barista at the newest cafe in Japan. “He” can brew and serve hot coffee with just one hand. Oh, and “he’s” also a robot, according to the Daily Mail article covering “his” debut. Sawyer is the name of the the robot barista at the Henna Cafe in Shibuya, the popular […]

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Scientists have created robots that have rib cages, flexible spines, and can SWEAT

January 5, 2018 -

Posted by Earl Garcia

(Natural News) A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo developed a pair of humanoid robots that can carry out a wide range of life-like activities — such as doing push ups, sit ups, and stretches as well as playing badminton and other complicated motions — in a less mechanical manner compared with most automatons. The robots, called Kengoro […]

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Meet Tally, the grocery store shelf auditing robot that’s going to put thousands of low-wage grocery workers out of a job

August 1, 2017 -

Posted by Rhonda Johansson

(Natural News) Losing our jobs to robots is no longer a topic of vague interest; it is now a very real situation, one further evidenced by the introduction of Tally, the newest automated shelf-auditing and analytics system slated to hit grocery stores soon. Developed by Simbe Robotics, Tally is the world’s first robot to capture, […]

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Experts warn robots are growing in consciousness and should be classified as an “invasive species”

July 28, 2017 -

Posted by Frances Bloomfield

(Natural News) Should humanity become extinct in the immediate future, it won’t be by our own hands or through the wrath of nature. A number of experts has claimed that our demise shall be brought on by super-strong robots. What was once created to make our lives easier could very well “threaten our existence” in […]

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Health Ranger science lab tour: See the liquid handling automation robot from CWC Labs

March 7, 2017 -

Posted by Mike Adams

(Natural News) I’ve been working hard in the lab these last few weeks, scripting liquid handling automation solutions for our new liquid handling robot. This is all part of my groundbreaking work on cannabinoid analysis and quantitation using extremely accurate mass spec instrumentation to quantify the concentration of CBD molecules found in the sample being […]

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