Tag: Robotics
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Kurzweil promised robot bodies, virtual avatars, and uploaded minds by the 2030s. Two of three arrived early — the third came through a door he half-missed.
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Alphabet’s TidalX has 51 US patents on cameras, anti-startling robot policies, and optical-flow water-current estimators. Salmon farms are the AV stack’s first profitable second act.
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A healthy boy was conceived in Guadalajara last year by a robot taking commands from New York, 3,700 km away. The patent record says the first robotic IVF lab is no longer hypothetical.
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John Deere put vision-and-spray on five million acres in 2025 and halved herbicide use. The patent trail behind it starts in 2017 and nobody in the tech press noticed.
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Kurzweil bet the Pentagon would field the first autonomous machines. Instead a taxi company did — and the guided bullet is still a patent, not a procurement line.
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2005 predicted 120-robot DARPA swarms for us. 2025 delivered drones that destroyed 87 percent of our Abrams fleet.
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Kurzweil’s 2005 warfare chapter got the shape right and the institutions wrong: FCS died, smart dust didn’t arrive, and Ukraine’s $500 quadcopters are the force he described.