When I was a little kid, our family went to Disney World. Somewhere in our family archive, there’s a picture of me in the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse, beaming.

Entertainment creators are co-producing with AI platforms and even audiences themselves, to diversify content to be exciting and relevant to a broader range of fans. These initiatives not only craft the unexpected, but create a personal relationship between the content and the fan-creator.

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You wouldn’t 3D print a car, would you? That’d simply be impractical. However, if you’re a team of students attending the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, you might be inclined to 3D print a stainless steel bicycle instead.

Rob Carter, FedEx’s chief information officer, says the shipping giant is considering small vehicles that could drive around neighborhoods and make deliveries without human drivers. Carter is responsible for setting the technology agenda across FedEx’s various operating companies, including its planes-and-trucks Express shipping service and office-and-home Ground delivery service, which operate in 220 countries.

Videos of new robot advancements typically throw the Internet into full buzz mode, complete with headlines about Terminators and ” robot overlords.” While some of these bleeding-edge bots are terrifying, it’s not for the reasons all the click-bait headlines would have you believe.

Among other horrors, the Nazis were famous for weird, semi-mystical science experiments. These have spawned movies from the classic Raiders of the Lost Ark to Hellboy to Norwegian splatstick series Dead Snow .

That’s the mantra that Wealthfront, the five-year-old online financial advisory service is touting in the increasingly crowded market for finance apps. $700 million Wealthfront is the only “robo-advisor” pioneer that is still totally human-free, and it’s doubling down by releasing an automated financial planning feature, called “Path,” which helps you understand when you’ll be able to retire, and how your current spending and saving impacts that.

PanARMENIAN.Net – In what would make an excellent sidekick for Batman, scientists have built a fascinating, unconventional flying robot that moves its wings and flies just like a bat, Fox News reports. Covered with a thin, silicon skin, the flexible wings of this mechanical creature – called Bat Bot – can move like bat wings do, making use of nine different artificial joints .

This photo provided by Alireza Ramezani, University of Illinois, shows a Bat Bot, a three-ounce flying robot that they say can be more agile at getting into treacherous places than standard drones. Because it mimics the unique and more flexible way bats fly, this new robot prototype can do a better and safer job getting into disaster sites and scoping out construction zones than those bulky drones with spinning rotors, said the three authors of a study released Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in the journal Science Robotics.

In true Silicon Valley fashion, Mineta San Jose International Airport is giving travelers a modern way to enjoy the wait at the boarding gate with the debut of the new iPal Playground, the first interactive play space featuring the iPal humanoid social robot. The only installation of its kind in the U.S., the iPal Playground features AvatarMind’s new iPal social companion robots to play with, entertain and even educate travelers?adults and children alike?passing through SJC.

This photo provided by Alireza Ramezani, University of Illinois, shows a Bat Bot, a three-ounce flying robot that they say can be more agile at getting into treacherous places than standard drones. Because it mimics the unique and more flexible way bats fly, this new robot prototype can do a better and safer job getting into disaster sites and scoping out construction zones than those bulky drones with spinning rotors, said the three authors of a study released Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in the journal Science Robotics.

It swoops, flaps and dives just like the animals it was designed to mimic. Inspired by the flexibility and agility of bats and their wings, a team of engineers has come up with an autonomous flying robot with the same skills – one that could ultimately be used to survey building sites from the air.

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According to the Robotic Industries Association, orders surged 61 per cent in assembly applications while food and consumer goods orders increased 32 per cent. The North American robotics market broke all-time records for orders and shipments in 2016, with 34,606 robots valued at approximately US$1.9 billion ordered in North America, representing growth of 10 per cent in units over 2015.

The Robotic Industries Association reported record robot sales in 2016 in North America thanks to a strong fourth quarter and increased sales in the automotive industry. The Robotic Industries Association announced the North American robotics market broke all-time records for orders and shipments in 2016.

Paiggio, the company behind Vespa, has come up with an autonomous robot that will follow you around and help you with your luggage.

The top three schools that competed in the 2016 UTRGV’s Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technology Week Robotics competition will have an opportunity to show their prize-winning robots and share lessons learned with representatives from AT&T.

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Almost half the activities people are paid to do globally could be automated using current levels of technology, according to a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute. But before we start fretting about job security – or daydreaming about lives of leisure surrounded by “Jetsons”-style robot staff, the report includes a few other key details.