Almost "Black Mirror": in Japan creating robots that play dead people
In one of the episodes of the TV series "Black Mirror" was a story about how a young girl, worrying about a dead young man, ordered him a "copy" based on artificial intelligence technologies. Repeatedly "Black Mirror" was a prophe...
Household robots and robot servants: expectations and reality
Every year, just for a few days in a large city, a small team of enthusiasts following his dream in life: eating at home robot waiters and butlers. In a carefully constructed replicas of the scenes of the restaurant or home enviro...
Japanese engineers have taught a robot to work in tandem with a man
Modern robotics is already pretty well developed. Just look at least on recent progress Boston Dynamics or to remember a factory where robots are creating other robots. However, as a rule, some robotic mechanisms only work well wi...
The feature of the surface of the asteroid Ryugu jeopardizes the mission, the Japanese probe
Discovered a feature of the surface of the asteroid Ryugu casts doubt on success of mission of the Japanese space probe "Hayabusa-2", whose main purpose is to collect samples of soil. We have previously reported that the surface o...
Passengers on the Tokyo metro will help robots
no doubt, sooner or later robots will take any place in our society. Now going through the development of drones that could help people in the warehouses, in the production of various parts and so on. Successfully tested self-driv...
On the surface of the asteroid Ryugu successfully landed the third apparatus
Japanese space probe "Hayabusa-2" successfully landed on the surface of a 900-foot asteroid Ryugu third spacecraft – lander MASCOT (Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout). The device has already started working, reported on the website of...
The Japanese space Agency has revealed new images from the surface of the asteroid
the Japanese aerospace exploration Agency (JAXA) has published a new portion of data obtained from the asteroid Rovers, MINERVA-II1, successfully carried out the landing on the asteroid Ryugu 21 September in the framework of the m...
SpaceX will deliver to the moon a few Japanese vehicles in 2020 and 2021
the SpaceX Company has signed a contract with a Japanese start-up ispace on two missions for the delivery of several spacecraft to the moon in the framework of LONG-R. Launches scheduled for 2020 and 2021 will be conducted using t...
Japanese scientists have approached the use of fusion energy
for a long time scientists are trying to create conditions for implementing a sustainable controlled thermonuclear fusion reaction. However, the production of such a reactor may cause many difficulties and even the most ambitious ...
People with disabilities will be able to control robotic waiters
For people with disabilities, modern technology offers a variety of solutions that allow you not only to live a full life, but also to deal with different things. But I think beyond all this went Japanese developers, which at the ...
Japanese Rovers successfully landed on the surface of the asteroid and sent back the first pictures
Japanese space Agency (JAXA) announced that two of her Bouncing Rover successfully landed on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu and even managed to collect some data and send back some photos of his space adventure. The landing veh...
Japanese probe "Hayabusa-2" marooned on an asteroid Ryugu two Rover
Japanese spacecraft "Hayabusa-2" to clear the two small cylindrical Rover MINERVA-MINERVA and II1A-II1B on the surface of a 900-foot asteroid the Ryuga, which was reached in June of this year. The probe approached the surface of a...
The first attempt to move closer to the asteroid Ryugu failed
the Site of the Japanese space Agency (JAXA) reports that the trial attempt to bring together the machine "Hayabusa-2" with the surface of the asteroid, the Ryuga was a failure. The reason, as indicated in the message, the low ref...
Japan began the development of hypersonic weapons
unfortunately, the achievements of science help not only to create new things that improve life, but also used for military developments. For example recently in the race to develop hypersonic weapons had entered Japan. Recall th...
Japan teams up with Uber, Boeing and Airbus to create flying cars in ten years
This country will not be called a world leader in the field of Autonomous or electric vehicles, but it plans to make the cars fly. Here's the thing: today, Japan announced that it gathers 21 companies and organizations, including ...
One of the most important skills on the ISS? The ability to use the toilet
Japanese astronaut, Noguchi Soichi gathering in his third expedition to the International space station, talked about the fact that the toilet is one of the most important objects on the ISS, and the ability to use it – one of the...
Japanese probe "Hayabusa-2" photographed the surface of the asteroid Ryugu closeup
Japanese spacecraft "Hayabusa-2" showed the surface of the asteroid Ryugu closeup. About two weeks ago, the space probe at a distance of six kilometers, but the new images received by the camera from a distance of only 851 meters ...
The facial recognition system uses for the first time at the Olympic games in Tokyo
the Japanese company NEC, one of the largest manufacturers of electronic, computer and telecommunications equipment in the world announced that it developed a system of facial recognition mass will be used in the course of the sum...
Hiroshi Ishiguro presented his new creation — Android Ibuki
before we discuss, as we are afraid, Hiroshi Ishiguro from the University showed its new creation — Ibuki humanoid robot that can move on four wheels. Ishiguro in the field of Android and the uncanny valley. First and foremost, he...
For two days the console Classic NES Edition surpassed the sales of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
a Reworked version of the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) became the best-selling game console in June of this year. It surpassed the sales of the PlayStation 4 from Sony and Xbox One from Microsoft. Especially in th...