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After the "flash crash" that brought the stock exchange to its knees a few months ago, data analysis firm Nanex started looking into some odd patterns in stock trades. They discovered bot armies are affecting trades on a microsecond-by-microsecond basis. More »
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The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) just met in Georgia, and some new photos show off the incredible diversity of your future robot overlords. More »
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This little wind-up bot from Brazilian toymaker and environmental activist Chico Bicalho does a spastic jitter when you let it go. In fact, all Bicalho's creations are goofy, jumpy critters that are pretty much the opposite of what you'd expect from a robot. They shoot sparks, wobble lopsidedly on their wheels, and hurl themselves upsidown if given a chance. I'm lucky enough to own one, called a Sparklz, that is a wobbly fire-squirter. Check out some videos of Sparklz and its crazy bot friends below. More »
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Meet the Manga Ormolu: She's made entirely of ceramic and is a strange combination of futurist mecha-bot straight out of Appleseed, and an Ormolu vase straight out of eighteenth century France, where the Europeans amused themselves by collecting Chinese vases as exotic symbols of otherworldiness. (Today Ormolu copies are sold to tourists in Chinatowns across the world.) You can meet Manga Ormolu's friends in our gallery. More »
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