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William Shatner Introduces the ‘Future’ of Robotics In Rarely Seen 1984 Video Moravec‘s Paradox

William Shatner Introduces the ‘Future’ of Robotics In Rarely Seen 1984 Video

William Shatner in "The Future is Now" In a rarely seen video about robotics optimistically called “The Future is Now,” William Shatner takes viewers through a 19 minute tour of the latest in industrial robotics. It’s got everything one wants in an educational video from 1984: grainy montages, a beep-boop…
bubmag
July 6, 2022
Disney’s “Baymax!” Series Includes an Important Moment For Trans Representation Moravec‘s Paradox

Disney’s “Baymax!” Series Includes an Important Moment For Trans Representation

Disney's latest innocuous attempt at LGBTQ+ representation once again sparks misplaced outrage. "Big Hero 6" spinoff "Baymax!" arrived on Disney+ on June 29, and an episode in the animated series depicts the titular character, a healthcare robot whose mission it is to help the people of San Fransokyo, in a…
bubmag
July 2, 2022
‘China’s No 1 uncle’: Man dresses as Transformer to surprise his disabled nephew, China Moravec‘s Paradox

‘China’s No 1 uncle’: Man dresses as Transformer to surprise his disabled nephew, China

A video of a man in China dressed as a robot from the fictional Transformers series while picking up his four-year-old nephew from kindergarten delights online viewers. The man's nephew, nicknamed Sensen, was born without a left hand, said his mother, surnamed Chen, a resident in Luohe of Henan province,…
bubmag
July 1, 2022
The Morning After: Major League Baseball wants to deploy strike zone robo-umpires in 2024 Moravec‘s Paradox

The Morning After: Major League Baseball wants to deploy strike zone robo-umpires in 2024

Major League Baseball will "likely" introduce an Automated Strike Zone System starting in 2024, commissioner Rob Manfred told ESPN. These robot umpires may call all balls and strikes then relay the information to a plate umpire, or be part of a replay review system that allows managers to challenge calls.…
bubmag
July 1, 2022
Descenders lets you bike down mountains with freestyle controls, coming soon to iOS and Android Moravec‘s Paradox

Descenders lets you bike down mountains with freestyle controls, coming soon to iOS and Android

Upcoming Noodlecake has teamed up with No More Robots and RageSquid to announce the upcoming launch of Descenders, the extreme downhill biking game coming to both iOS and Android devices later this year. Pre-orders are now open on the Google Play Store and the iOS App Store. In Descenders, players…
bubmag
July 1, 2022