This home-building robot can lay more than 1,000 bricks an hour — and construct a home quicker than a human
The Hadrian X can lay 1,000-plus standard bricks per hour, the company’s director of corporate affairs, Kiel Chivers, told Business Insider.During test runs, the Hadrian X has been able to construct the frame of a small house in as few as two days. The company is uncertain when it will start selling the machines.
2018 Will be an Emotional Year for Robots

“There’s research showing that if you’re smiling and waving or shrugging your shoulders, that’s 55% of the value of what you’re saying – and then another 38% is in your tone of voice,” describes el Kaliouby. “Only 7% is in the actual choice of words you’re saying, so if you think about it like that, in the existing sentiment analysis market which looks at keywords and works out which specific words are being used on Twitter, you’re only capturing 7% of how humans communicate emotion, and the rest is basically lost in cyberspace.” Will 2018 be the year of emotional AI?
THIS AI-FORTIFIED BOT WILL BUILD THE FIRST HOMES FOR HUMANS ON MARS

Thanks to new AI upgrades, Justin can think for itself. Unlike most robots, which have to be programmed in advance and given explicit instructions for nearly every movement, this bot can autonomously perform complex tasks—even those it hasn’t been programmed to do—on a planet’s surface while being supervised by astronauts in orbit.
Robomart is the latest startup to try and unseat the local convenience store

There was ‘Bodega’ and now’Robomart’. Will they supplement the convenience stores or try to disrupt the corner store? While looks like its another glorified kiosk, how will it replace the emotional connection the residents in the neighbor hood have in walking into it, having small talk and greeting others in the neighborhood and exchanging niceties etc. Will it have the impact Amazon had on retail or just become another failed idea rejected by the market completely?
LG’s friendly robots will help travelers at Seoul airport

LG is introducing two version of robots – one for information and one for cleaning! Have we not been changing in terminals and running around to figure out where the next gate is ? More of these robots can definitely help ! Would they come next in the walmarts next so we can ask where this particular product is and probably scan a tag?
LG Electronics to Sell Robots to Replace Hotel, Airport, Supermarket Employees

The first one is a server robot that can deliver food and drinks to customers at hotels and airport lounges. It can essentially replace the work done by the waitstaff and be able to do it around the clock,” CNBC explained. “Second is a porter robot that can handle check-in and check-out services at hotels and carry luggage to rooms.”Finally, LG’s third new robot is made to work with customers at a supermarket, telling them the price of products and then guiding them through the aisles. There it starts – Robo Sourcing!!
ROBOTS ARE FUELING THE QUIET ASCENDANCE OF THE ELECTRIC MOTOR

Whats driving these robots? Electrical motors called actuators.. Actuators make robots leap and run and do backflips and lift 500-pound pipes (different robots, mind you, thank God. The lower the cost of these actuators become and they are easy to use we will have tipping point in robotics. Like personal computers which reached masses, we would probably see personal robots of several use cases? A robotic arm to hand you things, a robotic arm to hold your drink? Future looks bright and convenient!
WHEN ROBOTS INVADE THE KITCHEN – Robo Chefs!!

Chef, I want Pasta Primavera for dinner asap while I couch surf! Would this in future cause trouble for take out places as a robot can whip up your Italian food one day, Chinese the next and pizza on game nights? Would it become a standard in future in all kitchens. Definitely it could change what we mean by ‘cooking’ – by human or a robot?
BOSTON DYNAMICS’ ATLAS ROBOT DOES BACKFLIPS NOW AND IT’S FULL-TILT INSANE

Humanoids aren’t supposed to be able to do this. It’s extremely difficult to make a bipedal robot that can move effectively, much less kick off a tumbling routine. The beauty of four-legged robots is that they balance easily, both at rest and as they’re moving, but bipeds like Atlas have to balance a bulky upper body on just two legs.
Ford tests exoskeleton to ease strain on factory workers

Certain Ford employees do these tasks up to 4,600 times per day and up to a million times per year, the automaker noted in a press release. The non-powered EksoVest, designed by Ekso Bionics in partnership with Ford, helps lift five to fifteen pounds, easing the strain on users’ upper bodies and preventing some fatigue. That assistance could help prevent workplace accidents resulting from tired muscles and minds.
Walmart Is Putting Shelf-Scanning Robots in Over 50 U.S. Stores

Bad news for the already low paid Walmart employees. Good news for consumers through. How many times have you walked thorough aisles for a particular product to find it is stocked out. More drama if robots are walking aisles along with the various peoples in Walmart and if they can actually get to where they want to.
INSIDE SYNTOUCH, THE MAD LAB GIVING ROBOTS THE POWER TO FEEL

This robot finger doesn’t feel the world like yours, which relies on nerves. Embedded in a dome shape are 19 super-sensitive electrodes, over which a skin of silicon is stretched. The space in between is then injected with saline. So when you press the finger against something, the electrodes measure the changing resistance through the saltwater.