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The Google Karate Robot Used for Search and Rescue?

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Google pulled one of the best tricks in the history of science yesterday: it did not only build a hugely – sized robot, but it blessed it with the power of vertical position, movement and balance. The Google Karate Robot proves once again that Google is not only a visionary tech company, but that it can also turn its visions into reality.

The now Google – owned company Boston Dynamics has been working on this project since 2013. The Atlas Robot was revealed last year and it impressed everybody with its spectacular size, its human – like legs, composure and frame, but it stood up and moved just like a robot: unnatural and clumsily. It took Google and its partners an entire year to turn a chunk of metal into a futuristic superhero that can do a fine kick and a very complex series of actions.

The hottest news of the day is that the Google Karate Robot, as it was called in the last hours, managed to do what none other robot did before: it pulled a perfect Karate Kid – style crane, balancing on one foot atop a cinder-blocks stack, with its other knee bent to the chest and arms lifted in the shape of wings.

People wondered why was it necessary for Google to invest such amount of money, effort and intelligence in a metallic monster that can show off a few ninja – movie tricks, but it is more than tricks that Atlas comes up with. Imagine that it is hard for an untrained human to keep his balance on one foot, while standing on a pile of blocks.

Now imagine a 300lb robot can do this and much more: Atlas can also walk, climb stairs, avoid obstacles, bend and kick, turn and lift his head, raise its arms and flip them like a bird and make fluid moves with the help of its 28 joints.

The Google Karate Robot was built and upgraded to this state of technological art because he is a worthy contender in a competition: the DARPA Grand Challenge of this year will decide if Atlas is going to win, as last year, it came second in the same contest.

The main goal of Atlas is to prove to the world that it can respond in a human – like manner to disasters and to perform human – like actions of search and rescue. Its now new mobility and balance features make it an interesting alternative to human intervention, especially in those situations when people need to be rescued from disaster sites that can’t be accessed in full safety.

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Facebook Keeps Watching Us and Selling Us

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Yesterday we talked about a new social network, called Ello and how it is probably going to take Facebook’s place soon. Facebook is fast to fall out of grace with its users and something new is bound to take its place. Today, we learned another thing that will make many people either hate Facebook a little more or quit Facebook altogether: it seems that Facebook keeps watching us and selling our personal data to companies. It’s no news that Facebook does this, but this time, starting Monday, Facebook will implement Atlas, a new ad network that it purchased from Microsoft in 2013.

Facebook Keeps Watching Us

Facebook Keeps Watching Us

In 2013 Facebook paid $100 million for Atlas, a Microsoft-owned ad network that gathers personal information and uses it for targeted marketing. Have you ever noticed how as soon as you do a search on something, ads will start appearing about products related to your initial search? That’s what Atlas will be doing; to translate freely, that’s what Facebook will be doing.

Facebook promises that its users’ identities will be kept anonymous from advertisers and that only the most basic information will be revealed and sold. But much can we trust Facebook’s promises, when it is selling our information?

Atlas and Google AdWords have a lot in common. Erik Johnson, Atlas chief, revealed some information about the company in a recent statement and its people-based marketing, as opposed to using cookies:

People spend more time on more devices than ever before. This shift in consumer behavior has had a profound impact on a consumer’s path to purchase, both online and in stores. And today’s technology for ad serving and measurement – cookies – are flawed when used alone. Cookies don’t work on mobile, are becoming less accurate in demographic targeting and can’t easily or accurately measure the customer purchase funnel across browsers and devices or into the offline world.

Any thoughts on the fact that Facebook keeps watching us and selling us? Drop us a line in the comment section below.  

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