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Did any April Fools’ Day robot pranks fool you?
Source: Google
April Fools’ Day brings out the pranksters and tomfoolery. Some companies (see: Google) step up their game each year! Here are a few robotics or techie related ones we spotted. Any others you enjoyed? Feel free to share in the comments!
Google Garden Gnome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNOllWX-2aE#action=share
Google Netherlands can now harness the country’s unused windmills to banish rain from the skies: “Google Wind … uses Machine Learning to recognise cloud patterns and orchestrate the network of windmills when rain is approaching.”
Virgin Trains launched a new contactless ticket system #Tickink
Amazon Echo for our pets: Petlexa
LOL Bot – The world’s first A.I comedian
Contiki’s “Artificial Intelligence Trip Managers” or ATITA
ING has come up with the “iTM”, a phone with a built-in 3D printer than can produce “cash notes on demand”
Image: IMG
Houzz has supplemented its mobile app with augmented reality. Why sell furniture when you can just blow it up?
Any others we missed?
