Intrinsitivity

HP and ASU demo bendable, unbreakable electronic displays – Engadget

Nearly four years after Arizona State University opened its very own flexible display center comes this, a prototype device that’s purportedly easy to manufactur, easy on the environment and practically as strong as Thor.

I imagine a future where entire walls of homes and organizations are covered with these or similar kinds of displays, allowing real-time interaction with virtual, and possibly actual, environments.

IEEE Spectrum: The Rise of the Machines

There are now 1 million industrial robots toiling around the world, and Japan is where they’re the thickest on the ground. It has 295 of these electromechanical marvels for every 10 000 manufacturing workers—a robot density almost 10 times the world average and nearly twice that of Singapore (169), South Korea (164), and Germany (163).

Realistic Robots Approach the Edge of the Uncanny Valley

Bristol’s Robotics Lab has been working on a similar project. They’ve just demonstrated a new prototype of a robotic head and face that can produce non-repetitive facial behavior designed to generate empathy by taking cues from the person speaking to it.