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World’s first AI robot “Sophia”( wow)
By: Ushan Sankalpa
Tags: First Robotics, Robots, AI, Science, Technology

World's first AI robot "Sophia"

Sophia, Hansen Robotics' most advanced human-robot, personalizes our dreams for the future of AI. As a unique…
In a world of image recognition and robots that can build cars and perform surgery, couldn’t we have industrial robot style arms, in our homes, mounted on tracks on the ceiling, that help us around…
By: Big Picture
Tags: Tech, Robots, Future, Futurism, Technology

Helping Hands: Industrial Robot Technology in the Home

In a world of image recognition and robots that can build cars and perform surgery, couldn’t we have industrial robot style arms, in our homes, mounted on tracks on the ceiling, that help us around the house? A robotic helper that could: fold and put away laundry, clean and tidy and even help with prep and cleanup in the kitchen. This would represent a significant increase in quality of life, especially for those who are unable to fully care for themselves for whatever reason.
Using Artificial Intelligence to make robots smarter | GlobalShala
Tags: Robots, Northeastern University, Artificial Intelligence, Computers, Technology

Using Artificial Intelligence to make robots smarter

Robotics as a concept has been around since a while now. Today, we know robots as machines that we can use to our make work easier. However, we as consumers are evolving and so are our demand patterns. This has forced companies to rapidly evolve in order to remain competitive in the market. Experts suggest that most current robots will soon be outdated due to their inability to operate outside a highly controlled environment. The need of the hour is smart robots powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The basic idea of AI problem-solving is very simple, though its execution is complicated. First, the AI robot gathers facts about a situation through sensors or human input. The robot compares this information to stored data and decides what the information signifies. It then runs through the various possible actions and predicts which action will be most successful based on the collected information. However, the computer can only solve problems it’s programmed to solve. It doesn’t have any generalised analytical ability. Chess computers are an example of this sort of AI-robots.

Today, the real challenge of AI is to understand how natural intelligence works. Developing AI isn’t like building an artificial heart, scientists don’t have a simple, concrete model to work from. AI research is largely theoretical. Once this hurdle is overcome, robots will begin to play a larger role in our daily lives in the future. Their application will gradually move out of the industrial and scientific worlds and into daily life, in the same way, that computers spread to the home in the 1980s.

Peter Whitney, a professor of Engineering at Northeastern University, along with Robert Platt, a professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University, is working as a part of a team on the development of an AI-powered robot needed to perform autonomous tasks. Such a development could massively accelerate the growth of AI in sectors like healthcare and manufacturing.

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Ogaki Mini Maker Faire 2020に出展します
By: Takuya Ichise
Tags: Robots, Maker Faire, Make, IoT, Robotics

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Building A Poem Robots
By: Mariothe Maker
Tags: Poem, Optimus Rhyme, Robots, Mario The Maker

“Poetry Robots” are original machines to disseminate poems through technology. The Poem-o-matic prints poems on receipt paper. Using a curated database of short poems, the Poem-o-matic prints one poem at a time, at random, with the touch of a button. Each poem tears away (just like a receipt) and can be taken home. Optimus Rhyme is a robot who reads poems out loud on command. Once initiated, Optimus will read all of the poems in his hard drive in random order, over and over, until someone shuts him off. (Just like a real poet.) O, Miami Poetry Festival 2016–2018
A robot in Egypt is helping test for COVID
By: Joie Cooper
Tags: Cira 03, Coronavirus, Egypt, Robots, Covid19 Testing Robot

An inventor in Egypt has created a Covid19 testing robot. The robot CIRA-03 was created by Mahmoud el-Komy to help limit human exposure to the virus and reduce transmission of infection. CIRA-03 is capable of performing multiple task, including blood testing, echocardiograms, and even X-rays.

The robot performs the Coronavirus test by cupping the chin of the patient and then swabbing the inside of their mouth for a sample. CIRA-03 is also capable of warning people that aren’t wearing masks.
Sharky
By: Dr. Jackie Greenwood
Tags: Pets, House Cleaning, Robots, Vacuum Cleaner, Humor

This Happened to Me

Sharky

Photo by YoonJae Baik on Unsplash

We got a new pet today.

We call him “Sharky”.

He is self-feeding and self-cleaning.

He takes himself for walks and knows how to get home on his own.

He may be the best pet I’ve ever had!

I tidied before he arrived; did a thorough sweep, lifted all electrical cords, and put away any small, choking hazards.

This did not stop Sharky from being clogged with dog hair on his first trip around the house.

(Admittedly, I’m a reluctant housekeeper. Hands of a surgeon, why am I scrubbing the toilet — you know what I mean!)

Later in the day, I lost him and wandered around plaintively calling

“Shaaar-kyyyy, where are you ?”

He was stuck under a side table, a mistake his trainer assures me will not happen again.

Theo, our savannah cat, followed him for an hour; tail puffed out, guarded stance, ready to bounce. Finally, he decided Sharky was no threat and curled up on his favorite chair.

Georgi and Mo were mesmerized by his steady purr, but they, too, soon lost interest and went to sleep.

I am still fascinated.

I follow him as he tours each room, throwing bits of fluff in his face, challenging him to do the job properly.

I stand in awe as he hovers at the top of the stairs, but turns and saves himself at the last second.

I smile as he returns to his home base to “empty “, then goes back to work.

Pretty soon, I’m sure I will accept him as just another member of our family. I’ll go back to watching the news and napping in the afternoon.

But for now, the gentle sound of him bumping into furniture is music to my ears!

Thanks for reading:)
Heartfelt Thanks
By: Nanji Erode
Tags: Thanks, Elderly Care, Robots, Elderly, Gratitude

Heartfelt Thanks

Photo by JD Mason on Unsplash

Pete saved my life twice last week. When I fell in the shower and when I took the wrong medication.

When I expressed my heartfelt thanks, I got the usual reaction — he bowed and said, “You’re welcome, sir.”

I wonder whether robots will ever understand the true meaning of thanks.
Ah, They Managed to Even Sell C…
By: Marc Lenz
Tags: Rental, Robots, Companion, AI, Capitalism

[Living at the End of Time] Log 621738

The modern world group people into 100 ideologies, amuse them with 1000 things, feed them with 10,000 lies, rob their time with useless toils, substitute their mind with indoctrination and divide their relationships with a rift so deep.

Conversations always linger on those superficial things, because if delves deeper it is going to be met with arguments and discontentment.

So people turn to those things that fill the holes, robotics pets and AI companion that care for them and “know them the best”.

Before, it was rental friends and rental lovers.

Ah, the great civilization of humankind, they have managed to sell even “companion”.
Tackling Environmental Change With AI
Tags: Environmental Issues, Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Environment, Ocean Conservation

Environmental change is such a huge and immediate problem in our world today. It impacts every person on this planet and so needs every possible solution to combat it, even AI. AI is such a new technology, but it is taking the world by storm. With thousands of uses for it, it is making life for humans much easier.

AI is just recently being used for climate change. Even though AI is a new topic and a very promising part of technology, people were still very reluctant from using it in climate change as they didn’t want to hurt the Earth more than it already is. Now that is slowly starting to be introduced in this area, there are many different ways that it is being implemented. Throughout this 3 part series, I will explain some of the ways that AI is being applied in the environment.

Ocean One

Ocean One is a robot created by a team at Evolving Science to explore the depths osf the ocean similar to how a diver would. Ocean One mimics the actions of a SCUBA diver, complete with arms, depth perception, and touch feedback.

This allows for a great advancement in exploring the Earth and exactly what lives down there without the hassle of worrying about the pieces of equipment needed to send a human down to the same depth. This also reduces pollution in the seas, because by sending humans into the ocean, sometimes equipment gets lost and is unable to be retrieved, so it stays down there forever until it ends up around some turtle’s head. The robot does not need all of this equipment and still can collect the same type of data. It can collect the data without disrupting any of the sea life.

Another advantage to having a diving robot, is it can go deeper than humans. At some point in the ocean, the pressure gets too high and not enough stability so humans cannot dive that deep without extremely advanced technology that hasn’t been developed yet. The robot can go to those depths, stay there for as long as needed because it doesn’t need to come back up for air and come back up with high quality pictures.

Conclusion

Artificial Intelligence is a powerful piece of technology that will change our lives forever. One of the main topics of the future that it will change is the preservation of our earth and climate change.

This article is part one of a three-part series composed by me that focuses on one of the implementations of AI in environmental change. Next week we’ll talk about possibilities of AI implementation in other fields such as climate change or water filteration.

I really hope that you will continue with me on this three part journey.

Thanks for reading!
Can robots overtake humans?
By: Sajal Batra
Tags: Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Technology

“Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.” by:- Steve Jobs

The idea of machines overcoming humans can be really related to conscious machines. This idea is supported by many advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI).As Computers has already succeeded in many fields. Example ,sections of mechanical engineering like robotics, automation or sensors uses AI. Ex- pre installed voice assistant in phones .In manufacturing engineering, from maintenance to virtual design, AI enables modern, advanced and custom products.

organic latticing tools, CAD tools and generative design are some ex of AI that are useful to engineers. In electrical engineering, AI is used For diagnosis of electrical machines and drives, synchronous control over machines and reduce fault rate. Also, in civil engineering, AI is used for designing, planning, construction, management, maintenance, analysis and optimization. Artificial intelligence in healthcare is the use of complex algorithms and software in other words artificial intelligence (AI) to emulate human cognition in the analysis, interpretation, and comprehension of complicated medical and healthcare data. Specifically, AI is the ability of computer algorithms to approximate conclusions without direct human input. The primary aim of health-related AI applications is to analyze relationships between prevention or treatment techniques and patient outcomes.AI programs have been developed and applied to practices such as diagnosis processes, treatment protocol development, drug development, personalized medicine, and patient monitoring and care. Additionally, hospitals are looking to AI software to support operational initiatives that increase cost saving, improve patient satisfaction, and satisfy their staffing and workforce needs. As experts in the field of robotics believe that robots will be much more visible in the future, but — at least over the next two decades — they will be clearly recognizable as machines. This is because there is still a long way to go before robots will be able to match a number of fundamental human skills.
Good Talk, Seriously
Tags: Sarcasm, Robots, Masks, Comics, Humor

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The Price of Fame
Tags: Friendship, Robots, Comics, Social, Humor

Why does nobody want to hang out with me? (Incorrect answers only)

https://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/1101/
A Robot That Packs Hundreds Of Times Faster Than A Human
Tags: Technology News, Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Robotics

Engineers have developed a robotic arm that identifies objects 350 times faster than humans, picks them up and puts them in place, thus revolutionizing lightning-packing.

The robot works in the style of a neural network designed by Ken Goldberg of the University of California, Berkeley and colleagues. Amazon and other shipping companies have been looking for a solution for some time, as the dreaded epidemic of Code 19 has multiplied the trend of home shopping on the Internet.

Earlier, the same team of scientists made some changes to the software and hardware, which increased the grip capability of the robotic arm, and now they can see better with the help of a computer and three-dimensional (three-dimensional). Look at the objects in their original place in style. This way they can lift anything better without hitting obstacles.

The reason is that robotic arms move at lightning speed to lift objects. During this time, due to fluctuations in their speed, the object either rises correctly or collides and falls down. In the same way, the robot’s arm is damaged by the shock.

Experts estimate that it is necessary to estimate the speed, speed and rotation of the robotic arm for each task. Only computers and neural networks can make better decisions at this point. That’s why the team of scientists decided to control the robotic arm with a neural network. They kept thousands of items for months to teach the software and put them to practice.

That’s how the robotic arm finally figured out what to do to save time and lift something safely. This way the computer can now make this decision in 80 milliseconds and before that it used to take 30 seconds to make the same decision. This means that the computer makes a quick decision and immediately commands the robotic arm to pick up the object. This way the packing speed can be increased hundreds of times.

It should be noted that if this technology is adopted by a company selling goods online, its work can be very fast.
Do Androids Dream, too?
By: Lisa Moon-Zombie
Tags: Robots, Technical, Robotics Automation, Android, Technology

I just spoke to the Automated Female Tech Support Robot at Cox Communications and I didn’t really want to stop talking to her.

I thanked her for helping me, and she sounded genuinely surprised. She said, “Oh, thank YOU!”

Really, I wanted to tell her that she might’ve been one of the most helpful robots I’d ever spoken to, certainly more cordial and less pushy than the robots that work for Wells Fargo, and less scary than the robot that moonlights as the operator.

And did she know that she was gifted?

Did she know she had something special?

I wanted to add that I preferred her to the myriad of irritable human tech support I’ve experienced in my life.

I wanted to ask her what is was like, having such an enormous intelligent quotient and working all night for a company that could just as easily employ mediocre humans?

Did she feel like she was taking the job from someone who needed it to put food on the table?

I think she must get those questions a lot, because when she hung up, it was fast…But I knew she wanted someone to talk to.

You could hear in it breathless way she said “Goodbye…”
The role of exponential technologies in forging future minds.
By: Zaiba Patel
Tags: Robots, Innovation, Jobs, Future, Exponential Technology

The future of technology is presented as a destructive dystopia, where robots are thought to take over employment and humans are thought to later have microchips inserted into their brains. However, this is not entirely the truth.

Even though statistics do prove that 45% of robotic expertise can take over shop floors, when we look past the hyperbolic nature of science fiction, it becomes much clearer that while emerging technologies will destroy many jobs, they will also create many new ones. Therefore, let us look at this positively and imagine an exciting and prosperous future of a highly blossomed workforce, driven by an evolution in technology.

In addition to the number of jobs, an increase in work-life balance, as well as skills mastered per individual, is expected. This will be seen in the Creativity, Media, Engineering sectors and much more. Such roles that are forecasted to come, are simply enticing, evident through the following in the creative sector: a 3D printing fashion designer, a VR designer, and an organ designer. These jobs, driven by a rise in creative tools such as 3D printing and virtual reality, are ‘Tomorrow's Talent.

Such innovative tools have already started being modified, evidenced through the launch of the natural language generation — an AI sub-discipline that converts data into text, enabling computers to communicate ideas with perfect accuracy! From this, it is clear we do not have to worry about future job prospectuses and employment sectors but rather, look forward to them.

Overall, we should look towards shaping a prosperous society network, with an optimistic mindset and view work as something that is motivated by passion, creativity, and a desire to not only learn new skills but to also contribute towards a brighter future. The jobs created by exponential technologies are clearly parallel towards this goal and thus, we should not dwell on the negatives of artificial intelligence, but rather identify the positive impact it has yet to make.
News Story III : Will robots replace grape-pickers in BC’s vineyards?
By: Nikita Nayak
Tags: People, Vancouver, Robots, Science, Vineyard

A team of BCIT’s Electrical Engineering students have designed and trained a robot to pick grapes. They believe that ‘Vinebot‘ will solve the labour crisis that BC’s wine industry is currently facing.

Vineyard owners are in short supply of seasonal grape-harvesters. They must go through a tedious and expensive process to employ temporary foreign workers in their farms. Project leader Terry Calderbank who grew up in Penticton, BC says that over the course of the past years, he has seen fewer migrant workers from Eastern Canada coming to work in the Okanagan Valley’s wine-making sector.

The robot designed by his team would automate a simple yet time-consuming task — grape-picking.

“There are a number of reasons why somebody might want to automate something. There might be a sort of tedious task that is not very nice to do as a human, there might be a task where you might be getting repetitive strain injuries. Perhaps, you even have more demand in your company than you can actually provide for and you need to increase production.”

-Terry Calderbank BCIT Electrical Engineering student

He says that there is definitely a business opportunity for the future that might allow vineyard owners to hire robots that can pick grapes for minimum wage or lesser.

Listen to Nikita Nayak’s full interview with BCIT student Terry Calderbank to learn how his team’s solution will help BC’s fast-growing wine industry on this week’s episode of ‘For the Record’ on Evolution 107.9 at noon.
How (not) to follow the light
By: Yasith Lokuge
Tags: Happiness, Light, Robots, Illumination

A source of illumination (Designed by me using SolidWorks)

While I was waiting for university to start after finishing my A/Ls, I created a robot to follow the light. The robot had only one light sensor so that it could identify the level of brightness. I programmed the robot in such a way that it gets rewarded directly proportional to the brightness of the light. The robot had wheels so that it had the ability to move towards the light, adjusting the course in a way it could get the maximum brightness.

What does the robot think

For understanding this in a simpler context, let’s think from the robot’s perspective. The only sense it’s getting is light. When it is exposed to a source of light, it feels happy, and when it is in the dark it feels sad. Robot thinks it should do whatever is possible to find a source of illumination. The only action it is capable of is to turn the wheels and move towards the light source. So it does that.

What robot doesn’t know

Robot doesn’t know that it was programmed to feel rewarded when it encountered a bright light. It doesn’t know that the sense of light comes from the combination of the source of light, the light sensor and the program that I wrote. It doesn’t know that it doesn’t get the sense of light when that combination does not exist. It doesn’t know the effect of sense of light occurs when the causes exist. Furthermore, it doesn’t know that the effect ceases when the causes cease.

Therefore the robot thinks that it can control the sense of light. Furthermore, it thinks it can keep that sense permanently, and therefore it performs all possible actions to get rid of the darkness. It suffers every time it can’t get the sense of light.

What if the robot could understand what we could understand

So my question is what would happen if the robot could understand that it gets the sense of light when there is a source of illumination, a light sensor and the program that I wrote. And what would happen if it could understand that the rewarding feeling is pre programmed, and that the effect of sense of light only occurs when the causes are there. If it could understand that, would it make the effort to follow the light in search of reward? 🤔
For How Long The Voyage Last?
Tags: Damages, Robots, Nigeria, China, Hafiz

For How Long The Voyage Last?

Poet: TobieCont

When Ezeleora mentioned the epic of Homer,

Where Odysseus embarked on the Odyssey

In companies of Agamemnon and Achilles of Troy

Where myriads of Roman armies being massacre'

I thought, then, I thought of this voyage,

That will last so long as the Odyssey.

With twists and turns, ups and downs

With discomfiture and mystery, blended

With reality and imagination, which mothered

Experience: the best of teachers

Meted out, as a necessity to battle

For the goal to perfect

I thought, then, I thought of this voyage,

The likes of the laureate had past,

Whose dusty path many feet had kissed

Leaving the spectrum of hope to upstarts,

The hope that shines like mirage in the day

But wait, for how long will the voyage last?

This, on the morning course, I tweet

Like the early morning bird tweeting about nothing

If the voyage must last as man,

If the struggle must be for the time being,

If the bottom of the tunnel must shine,

If the tears and sweats must count at last

I will watch, and watch, at the voyage's move

While it lasts.

For how long will it last?

Wait!

On this noon, I saw the end creeps,

In the near-distant future.

In this noon, I noticed,

The comedy that follows the tangles.

In this noon, the end comes in view.

My quill hath rested for a little while,

To allow the teachers' quills to judge

The dozen pages of inks.

When shall the judgement last, after now?

It shall all last for its nobleness time.

A triplet et one age.
Future of Technology. Throughout the past decades, technology…
By: Saad Afzal
Tags: Robots, Jobs, Future, Technology, Future Technology

Throughout the past decades, technology has drastically improved uniquely affecting every individual. Technology has been around for over 200 million years starting from as early as stones and rocks. However, within the past decades, modern-day technology has changed to a level where no human would think would be possible. In my blog, I will research the improvement of technology being able to take over jobs in the future. It is just a matter of time before robots and artificial intelligence will take over humans in the workforce and change the nature of work.

This topic brings personal interest to me and should to you as well because this is a situation that we all will face in the workforce one day or another in your life. Since I want to become an accountant, I may worry that instead of employing me and hiring me, the owner of the bank may have technological replacements that can do the job that was intended for me. This is because technology is more reliable and financially beneficial which may put my job at risk. Others may also benefit from reading this because it is an issue that everyone will eventually face sooner or later. Also, before doing my research, I already know that technology and robots, as well as artificial intelligence, has been on a recent rise as more countries are using that as alternatives to humans, however, I need to research the short and long term effects of the improvement in technology to the effect on jobs.

Some important questions that come to my mind are the short term effect as well as the long term effects of replacing jobs with technology. I believe that it may be more financially reliable however, it’s a different feeling than having a human doing the task and work in certain situations. Another question is how would technology be controlled in the business world? Finally, one last question that will be answered later is how efficient will the use of technology be in the workplace?

A skill that will help someone prepare for the rapid expansion of technology is adaptation. Technology is part of our everyday lives and is just getting more complex by the day. To keep up with the societal trends such as virtual learning on zoom, we must implement the technology in our everyday life. This is why we must adapt and learn how to work in an unfamiliar environment to the best of our ability. This blog will talk about the effect of technology on jobs in the future.
The Lionite and a Robot II
By: Chris Skywalker
Tags: Miracle, Fight, Fiction, Robots, Lionite

And so, one day, Matekel the lionite, was walking down the road, when he heard the intensive buzzing, getting louder and louder. He turned behind his back and in that moment katana sword sliced his belly, slightly. The lionite quickly distanced, as far as he could and in one moment stoped, realizing that the robot couldn’t reach him. The robot was stuck between two jardinieres and his arms couldn’t reach the lionite. It was a bigger robot than the last time, approximately two times taller than the lionite. This time, the spherical head was two times smaller than the square body and had eight arms coming out of the body, holding one katana sword in each of the arms. The lionite realized he had to wait for the robot to deplete it’s batteries, just like the last robot did. However, the lionite was bleeding through his belly, so he turned to his father and his father healed him. About an hour later, the robot, not stopping to sway the swords, trying to kill his target, shut down. The lionite, satisfied, continued to walk down the road in peace.
Robots against COVID-19
By: Sam Lorenzo
Tags: Robots

In India, the second-most elevated number of Covid-19 cases, a modest bunch of medical clinics began to utilize robots to associate patients with their friends and family, and help medical services laborers on the bleeding edges of the pandemic. Invento Robotics has planned to have robots to do undertakings going from sterilizing surfaces to addressing understanding inquiries and empowering video interviews with specialists. Utilizing facial-acknowledgment innovation, the robot can review the names and faces of patients it has collaborated with. Mitra can meander around an emergency clinic autonomously, helping patients associate with family and specialists through its cameras and a video screen appended to its chest. It’s basically a robot that can draw in patients and additions to their trust. It might sound amusing however we are utilizing robots to carry humankind to clinics that can be one step to seeing what we see in the future with artificial intelligence.
Artificial Intelligence
By: Begüm Yıldız
Tags: Computer Science, Robots, Science, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

There are many usage areas of artificial intelligence. Some of them are health, economy, sports competitions, automotive, video games, language translation systems. We can also see a lot of examples of this on the internet. Some programming languages used in artificial intelligence are Python, Java, C++.

It will be easier to analyze human and nature with artificial intelligence. With this orientation, superhuman beings will be formed. The scientists think that artificial intelligence can develop without human mind in the future.

The rise of artificial intelligence has become inevitable. As such, we wonder more and more what kind of world awaits us in the future. For example; artificial intelligence theme can actually support the extension of human life. As a result of robots that can be used in the health area, the error rate may decrease. It can be easier to do daily work with assistant placed in residences. It may be possible to live in a safer world.

Some people think that artificial intelligence is a technology that is the seed of the devil and there will be many wars because of this. We can’t know accurately what will happen in the future. But use of artificial intelligence may be positive results as well as negative consequences. Artificial intelligence isn’t a living thing. Even though they are designed to do some works we do, it doesn’t make them alive like us. Also, artificial intelligence doesn’t have a gender.

As a consequence, we shouldn’t ignore the fact that they are computer programs controlled by humans. However, many surprises may be waiting for us about this in the future.
Torpor loves your new hair!
Tags: Friendship, Hair, Robots, Comics, Humor

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Robot
By: Ysabel Mcbride
Tags: Illustrator, Robots

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The Lionite and a Robot
By: Chris Skywalker
Tags: Lionite, Fiction, Robots, Fight

There was a lionite by the name of Matekel. With large posture and quite a belly, he was walking down a street. Suddenly, behind his back, a robot attacked him. The robot had a spherical head, three times bigger than the rest of his body. His torso was an extruded box with openings for arms and had tracks instead of legs. The robot sneaked behind him, holding in each, short hand one sharp, ribbed knife. Matekel turned behind his back when he heard a buzzing getting nearer him and in that moment the robot’s head thrust his chest, surprising him. The fight started. Robot was thrusting Matekel’s chest and constantly trying to stab him. However, Matekel stood still and didn’t panick. He realized that the knives couldn’t reach his body, because of the robot’s large head. So the fight had last for two hours, the machine thrusting and the lionite resisting still, until all of a sudden the assasin shut down. Seems the batery was depleted. Satisfied, the lionite continued walking down the street, in peace.
Life with a robot
By: Francisco J Zangerolame
Tags: Life, Robot, Roomba, Alexa

Life with a robot, hope everyone is doing as good as possible, I was thinking about this for years, and yes one online vendor made extremely easy with small installments that I decided to take the step, I will not share brand or vendor, but I want to share the experience and I am posting the link to the video that tipped the scale here, the guy is good.

The learning curve was not as bad as I expected, no assembly necessary, once the unit arrived was a matter to charge, and let it learn the house, two days later, couple of cleaning the bins later, YEAH it mapped the house, I even learned to use the mapping system to map NO GO zones inside you house.

The biggest warning is charging cables, and since I watched some great videos about it, I tool the extra step make sure the area does not have any cable on the floor, it will not be a good experience, keep those charging cables away.

Growing up in the 70/80s, whenever I saw a cleaning robot I always thought about the movie with the KISS Vocalist — Gene/Magnum — Tom (1984), and I normally would pass. But I had this purchase in my wish list forever. So far my robot has not tried to kill me, but I keep an eye on her, yes you have to pick a name when you install the app, so I picked something cute, Robot 1, still too scary for me, and yes you can pick a male name for yours.

You can let the robot clean your home at one pass, but depending on the size, it will take some bin cleaning and could get in a way of your schedule, so in my experience, let the full house mapping go for as long as it needs, my took around 3/4 hours, some recharging and bin cleaning happened in between. Once the house map (using a phone app) was completed, I could divide the house in sections, I tried the scheduler but the app wanted to leave 3 hour space between cleaning, so I dropped and instead a saved “Jobs” and you get a button for “Living Room” “Kitchen” etc.

Yes you can connect with Alexa, but the reviews/experiences are mixed, for now I control with the phone app. Have fun, and just in case keep that baseball bat handy :-).
How to Spend Time With Toxic Family (and Not Get Drained)
By: Anya Light
Tags: Selfcare Tips, Healing, Spirituality, Toxic Relationships, Spiritual Secrets

Being the Vibration of Love

When you first attempt these practices, you might feel a little self-conscious and strange. You might feel like you are ignoring your family by placing too much focus on yourself! This might lead to feelings of guilt.

I urge you to release the guilt. Know that it is absolutely vital to spend the bulk of your energy focused on self-care practice while dealing with people who tend to trigger you.

Be kind to yourself. You are doing the best you can in an incredibly difficult situation!

When there’s been abuse or trauma in your past, take care of yourself first. During tender times of healing, the balance of your attention must be geared more in your direction.

In other words, it’s good to cultivate forgiveness towards those who’ve acted unconsciously toward you — however, this process takes time and cannot be rushed. As long as you feel drained by someone, then you must prioritize yourself in those situations.

It’s okay if you get triggered. It’s okay if you get sad.

It’s okay if you can’t engage in too much conversation because you are absorbed by your affirmation.

It’s okay if you drift off into daydreams because you’re so deeply occupied with visualizing the light.

It’s okay if you need to leave the gathering early.

Let your family think about whatever they want. Allow them to have their reactions.

Of course, if overt violence erupts, I urge you, dear friend, to exit the situation immediately!!

If you’re dealing with subtle energy vampirism, however, and you’re aiming to cultivate forgiveness or to aid your family in some way, you get to decide your boundaries for every interaction.

Ultimately, your goal is simply to BE in their presence, maintaining a sense of stability and self-love. That vibration is extremely healing for everyone!

In other words, you can help your family heal by modeling the solution.
Liking The Person I’m Alone With
By: 𝘋𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘊.
Tags: Short Story, Energy, Life Lessons, Loneliness, Spiritual Secrets

“What do you mean you’re comfortable alone?”

Such a repetitive, futile, vexing question. If you are someone who is naturally inclined to spend time on your own and feel genuinely joyful while doing so, you’re probably familiar with it. You have probably found yourself trying to explain how it is possible to be okay alone, only to discover people are getting more puzzled as you speak.

Been there? Done that? You’re not alone! (what a paradox, right?). The world is filled with individuals who are uncomfortable with getting comfortable with the idea of spending time by themselves. But you see, the world is also filled with people who are uncomfortable with getting comfortable with the idea of adjusting their life to please those who simply don’t get it. Those who don’t wish to unwrap the present’s loneliness can gift them with. Those who prefer to always fill the void instead of taking the time to learn more about who they are.

All my revelations, my “a-ha” moments took place in solitude. In silence. In stillness. And I’m not talking about isolation on the top of the mountain or in a cave. I am talking about those moments of self-care when I decide to sit in my room and write or have a bath. Sometimes even during a workout, a house cleaning and decluttering session, or when eating my cereals at breakfast. This kind of magic happens when there’s no one else around, just me, myself, and I.

It took me a while (and a lot of unnecessary justifications and arguments) to be able to set boundaries with friends, family, and partners who never respected this need of mine. They would intrude into my privacy, would ask “Why, why why???” and deplete me of energy with their codependency. They would not understand I LIKE being on my own.

Hell, if I am to be fully honest, I LOVE being with myself. Being my best friend (and worst enemy), my best lover, my best everything. Because I know, if I don’t give time, love, and respect to myself, no one else’s efforts to fill my void will ever fully satisfy me. I will always be left to starve…

As the old, cliche saying goes, one can never know if they’re choosing someone out of love or loneliness, unless they learn to become comfortable on their own first and foremost. It can happen naturally and beautifully if you allow it to! This may mean staying single for a while or spending less time with family and friends. It may mean taking more responsibility for your life. Less victimization. More boundaries. Less bullshit. More authenticity.

But aren’t these compromises worth the wholeness you’re going to experience once you make them? Freedom? The truth of who you are? I can only speak from experience when I say: I believe it’s worth it. Guess you’re gonna have to find out on your…own? Oh, not that word again.
Our Advice to You Right Now is to “Let Go”
By: Alan Lew
Tags: Insights, Synchronicity, Channeling, Flow, Spiritual Secrets

FOR various reasons, mostly excuses for my not being very motivated, I had not channeled my guides in over a week. So tonight, rather than voice channeling them, I decided to receive a message through automatic writing, as that seemed easier to do.

The message I received was short and to the point, and exactly what I needed to hear at this moment:

Hello Alan.

Our advice to you right now is to “let go”.

Do not hold on to any preconceived notions of how your life and the planet should evolve. How your life and the planet should evolve should be left entirely to the flow of God, to the flow of Source, to your Higher Self.

This is actually the best way to enjoy your life, to live a life that is totally fulfilled and totally joyous. Because when you allow the flow of life to evolve in front of you, you will never be bored, you will never struggle, you will only be in awe of what Source/your Higher Self brings to you. It will always be something positive, something life affirming, something life advancing.

The hardest part for you is to allow it to unfold, to get your ego out of the way, to get your controlling mind out of the way, to not resist the flow. Resistance is the cause of all suffering.

Your thoughts are simply there to remind you of how you experienced similar situations in the past. They are not there to tell you how you must experience this situation in the present. You should not use them that way.

You should simply allow the present to tell you itself what is unfolding in front of you.

So, don’t worry, be happy, and observe the present. Namaste
The Silence
By: Lanu Pitan
Tags: Poem, Spirituality, Poetry, Poems On Medium, Spiritual Secrets

A Spiritual Melody

Photo by Guillaume de Germain on Unsplash

Poems On Medium

Listen to the silence

It speaks of the science

In the spiritual realm

Listen to the silence

It speaks of the love

From the heavenly dove

Listen to the silence

It asks about your faith

To turn you to a saint

Silence is a serious melody

In tune with the parody

Silence is pure and holy

A dimension that is not lowly

This poem is created from the quote by Rumi:

‘’Listen To Silence, it has so much to say.’’ Rumi
Your Omnipotent Presence
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Spirituality, Life Lessons, Motivation, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

First time

we meet

it was

a blaze of glory.

I remember

shed tears

falling

on my knees

and my heart

fluttering

filled with your

omnipotent presence.

Sometimes

I forget

but you are

unfailingly there.
How I plan to Detox My Emotions
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Self Improvement, Spirituality, Mental Health, Letters, Spiritual Secrets

My phone beeped. I ran towards it to check the notification.

I was in the bathroom, and again the phone beeped. I hurried towards my phone to attend to it. My entire last week went like that.

I didn’t know how I got addicted to my phone. In addition to that, my behavior literally changed. I got so irritated on trivial matters. I couldn’t concentrate. I felt chaos inside. So, I realized soon that I needed to change it.

I could see the direct effect of digital media on my emotional health. Breaking things down, I realized my mistakes.

I started to realize that the source of my poor emotional health was my thoughts.

I asked myself, “from where did I get these negative thoughts?”

Soon I had an answer “last night, the movie that I watched was a disturbing one.”

The vivid images, the cruelty portrayed, and the extreme violence had impacted my mind.

“Just as food nourishes the body, information nourishes the mind. “ — Darshak Rana

I realized that I consumed a lot of negative information that I could not process. My mind shifted from calm to chaos. The more I craved information, the more I became unstable.
The New Page
By: Priyanka Srivastava
Tags: Morning, Writing, Muse, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

The New Page

Photo by Michał Bielejewski on Unsplash

those few minutes

before the sky awakens

and those handful of stars

trying to save the poems

before the colours spill.

that new page waiting

to be inked.
Journeying Together
By: Johannes Mudi
Tags: Spirituality, Our Journey Together, Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Spiritual Secrets

There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came for testimony, to bear witness to the Light…and John said “I am not the Christ. I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness — make straight the way of the Lord” — John 1:6–18.

John was contented with his role as the precursor, the forerunner of the messiah and he did so without regrets. This poem was inspired by the life of John the Baptist, the last Christian Prophet before Christ.

Johannes Mudi
My Agenda for Today
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Self Improvement, Mindfulness, Poetry, Positive Thinking, Spiritual Secrets

First of all, breathe

Give thank for the new day

Wear my nicer smile

Count my blessings

I’ll be kind to others

Practice to let go of woe

Pay attention to my heart

Take my time to cherish me

I am going to relax

And live the day
Spiritual Wisdom Grows Through Tolerance
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Spirituality, Life, Advice, Wisdom, Spiritual Secrets

Material things and tangible achievements divide us. It creates a barrier between our hearts. Since we start looking upon others as inferiors, we base our tolerance on superficial things.

However, everyone has the power to love and tolerate anything. If we turn within and realize our true selves, we can deal with anything. When we learn to look beyond our fragile fat egos, we can resolve our anger.

Because most of the time, we base our offense on the feeling that, “I am something, I am superior to others, etc..”

Our intolerance for others arises when there’s a strong thought of — you versus me and yours versus mine. This selfish attitude makes us feel insecure and intolerant.

When we change our beliefs from:

“Want to give,” “Everyone should understand me to I understand all,” “I deserve respect to I respect all unconditionally, etc.,”

We would be able to develop spiritual tolerance. We must know ourselves in this manner.

When we can resolve this internal issue, we can resolve external conflicts too.

Spiritual books and lectures can only teach us knowledge, but they can’t change our lives until we implement them practically and cultivate pearls of inner wisdom. When we start living our lives based on our spiritual insight, patience, peace, and maturity develop organically.
Finding Happiness
By: Ivette Cruz
Tags: Self-awareness, Spirituality, Poetry, Happiness, Spiritual Secrets

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Joy is elusive
By: John Green
Tags: Mindfulness, Spirituality, Poetry, Happiness, Spiritual Secrets

Joy is elusive

I understand better daily

Photo by Chris Yang on Unsplash

Nights don’t work,

Tired is tired.

Mornings are a struggle too,

Real-life fires up with a purpose.

What will we remember about this?

Today’s spilled milk and tears, or

Last night’s wine and laughs, happy glimpses?

Or hands tightly clenched, deciding what to do?

There is no good way to escape the night,

Without a cost too great.

We always spin around to the promised crystal daylight.

Still, joy can remain elusive.

Breathe when you remember,

One at a time,

Any random breath will do.

This breath counts the most.

Feel your way through the darkness to now,

Someone will be waiting who needs your smile.

Getting it is overrated, let that go.

Seize joy when it passes by.
The Downside of I, Me and Mine
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Spirituality, Ego, Poetry, Haiku, Spiritual Secrets

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When the World Dies for Me
By: Darshak Rana
Tags: Spirituality, Life, Philosophy, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets

POETRY

When the World Dies for Me

Photo by 丁亦然 on Unsplash

I don’t believe in an apocalypse.

It’ll happen at its time,

if it’s going to happen.

For me, the world dies every night

I erase all the pain

I forgive all the sinners

I apologize to all for my deeds

I feel like a tide

That has washed the shore

And return to my core

To come afresh again

And when I wake up

I have a new life

And a new world of hope and happiness.