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This AI startup wants to solve the hard problem of robots picking things up
If there’s one simple skill roboticists would love to steal from humans, it’s our ability to pick things up. Apples or eggs, pens or power drills; it doesn’t matter to us. Our hands are dextrous, able...
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2018 Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship application NOW OPEN!
In 2012, the Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship was established, in memory of long tenured and passionate FIRST supporter, distinguished pediatric oncologist, cancer pharmacologist and devoted...
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ANYmal: A Ruggedized Quadrupedal Robot
epal- interview by Industrial-Automation November 11, 2017 In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Marco Hutter, Assistant Professor for Robotic Systems at ETH Zürich, about a quadrupedal robot...
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Faster big-data analysis
We live in the age of big data, but most of that data is “sparse.” Imagine, for instance, a massive table that mapped all of Amazon’s customers against all of its products, with a “1” for each product...
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17-qubit chips have officially arrived, and so begins the quantum revolution
In Brief Intel's 17-qubit chip represents how close we currently are to incorporating quantum computing into our technology. Professors Andrew Childs and Fred Chong weigh in on quantum computing's...
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Where Self-Driving Cars Go to Learn
Last December, Uber clashed with California regulators when it tested its self-driving cars in San Francisco without permission from the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The company was quickly...
View ArticleAndrej Karpathy
I sometimes see people refer to neural networks as just “another tool in your machine learning toolbox”. They have some pros and cons, they work here or there, and sometimes you can use them to win...
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Weather Station Needs Almost No Batteries
While the ESP8266 has made its way into virtually every situation where a low-cost WiFi solution is needed, it’s not known as being a low-power solution due to the amount of energy it takes to run...
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Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos
There are few things social media users love more than flooding their feeds with photos of food. Yet we seldom use these images for much more than a quick scroll on our cellphones. Researchers from...
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Artificial intelligence aids materials fabrication
In recent years, research efforts such as the Materials Genome Initiative and the Materials Project have produced a wealth of computational tools for designing new materials useful for a range of...
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UV Sensitive Filament As A Persistent Display
Some of the hacks we feature are modifications of existing devices, others are ground-up builds of entirely new ones. And then there are the experiments, things that have to be worth trying because...
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Maria Goeppert-Mayer: The Other Nobel Prize Winner
Maria Goeppert-Mayer was one of only two women to win the Nobel prize for physics thus far, the other being Marie Curie. And yet her name isn’t anywhere near as well known as Marie Curie’s. She also...
View ArticleWalmart's robotics partner just raised $17.5 million to fund more store...
Get ready to see more robots cruising the aisles at stores. Bossa Nova Robotics just raised $17.5 million to help it build out its line of inventory-scanning retail robots. The funding round comes...
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Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
It's mid-afternoon on a Friday at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and three of Elon Musk's children are gathered around him – one of his triplets, both of his twins. Musk is wearing a...
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Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can’t stop it
GENE editing is entering the mainstream. CRISPR, a cheap and easy technique for making precise changes to DNA, has got researchers around the world racing to trial its use in treating a host of human...
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TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy
A bit of sad news for the maker community today: TechShop is shutting down nationwide. Founded in 2006, TechShop is (or, I guess, was) pretty much heaven for the adventurous do-it-yourself’er. Imagine...
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The 25 Best Inventions of 2017
To determine TIME’s annual unranked list, we consider hundreds of inventions from around from around the world. In the past, we’ve featured everything from the floating lightbulb to the desktop DNA...
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Super Low Tech Mario
Browsing around the depths of the Internet we came across a super low tech version of Super Mario from [Sata Productions]. The video presents a complete tutorial on how to make a playable, cardboard...
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Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS Robot Is Now a Backflipping Cyborg Supersoldier
10 minutes ago, I was cautiously optimistic that one day we’d live and work side-by-side with robots in perfect harmony. Then Boston Dynamics posted a video of its ATLAS humanoid robot performing...
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No big deal, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas can perform backflips now
It’s been a while since we’ve seen any updates to the Atlas robot after Alphabet sold Boston Dynamics to SoftBank in June. After unveiling a teaser of its SpotMini robot just a few days ago, the...
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Keystone Pipeline leaks 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota
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Opinion
Republicans in the House of Representatives have just passed a tax bill that would devastate graduate research in the United States. Hidden in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a repeal of Section 117(d)(5)...
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Germany has way more industrial robots than the US, but they haven’t caused...
The rise of the robots, coming first for our jobs, then maybe our lives, is a growing concern in today’s increasingly automated world. Just today (Oct. 10), the World Bank chief said the world is on a...
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Robotics expert moves entire team to University of Washington, including...
Researchers inside the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering in Seattle are developing innovative solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. But...
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The humanoid robot that can do a backflip
Media player Media playback is unsupported on your device Video Atlas, a humanoid robot developed by Boston Dynamics, is now able to perform backflips. From the section Technology Go to next video:...
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Lab-grown synthetic nanobots may officially end antibiotic resistance
Antibiotic resistance is a serious problem facing humanity. Bacterial infections, once treatable with a simple dose of antibiotics, now sicken and even kill patients. And today’s physicians are left...
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Stanford Algorithm Can Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than Radiologists
Stanford researchers have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can diagnose pneumonia from a chest x-ray better than a human radiologist can. And it learned how to do so in just about a month....
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Cobot: Collaborative Robot Central
Human workers give manufacturers flexibility, allowing companies to reap the benefits of automation while preserving the ability to fill special orders. The trick is to automate with the human, not...
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How the Robot Revolution Could Create 21 Million Jobs
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Stop Laughing at Those Clumsy Humanoid Robots
The humanoid robot, built like a linebacker with an oversized head, tiptoes on two feet through the dirt. It’s free of any wires. It’s unleashed—but it’s now wavering. It starts veering right, tilting...
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Italian doctor says world's first human head transplant 'imminent'
A controversial Italian doctor announced Friday that the world’s first human head transplant was "imminent" and that it would take place in China because his efforts to get backing for the project were...
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Way of the future: A new church worships an AI god
Anthony Levandowski, the former Google and Uber executive currently at the center of a bombshell lawsuit filed by Waymo, says he’s serious about starting a religion centered around super-smart...
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ANDROIDS through the eye of a 19th century wooden camera
by Articles November 19, 2017 Wanda Tuerlinckx and Erwin R. Boer have fused their scientific and photographic interests in robots and traveled the world since 2016 to visit roboticists to discuss and...
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How Robots Will Win Your Trust
What images come to mind when you think of robots? The lifelike replicas of Blade Runner? A favorite video game character or perhaps Aldebaran and SoftBank's quirky robot named Pepper? Although...
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There's a $100 million plan to make a synthetic spinal cord to end paralysis
In Brief Hugh Herr and his colleagues at MIT's Center for Extreme Bionics want to change what it means to be disabled. As part of a $100 million, five-year project, the researchers are working on...
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Why the rise of the robots won’t mean the end of work
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Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
Cable companies are famous for high prices and poor service. Several rank as the most hated companies in America. Now, they're attacking the Internet–their one competitor and our only refuge–with plans...
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The Origin Story of ROS, the Linux of Robotics
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. Ten years ago, while struggling to bring the vision of the...
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Wizards of ROS: Willow Garage and the Making of the Robot Operating System
Ten years ago today, an engineer at Silicon Valley robotics lab Willow Garage published a new code repository on SourceForge. The repository, made publicly available to anyone in the world who wanted...
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My Apology to Naomi Wu and the Make Community
Two weeks ago, I did something really stupid. I tweeted that Naomi Wu, @realsexycyborg, was not who she claimed to be, pointed to a conspiracy theory on that subject on Reddit. That would be wrong in...
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For the first time, a robot passed a medical licensing exam
In Brief Chinese AI-powered robot Xiaoyi took the country's medical licensing examinations and passed, according to local reports. Xiaoyi is just one example of how much China is keen on using AI to...
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Toyota’s latest humanoid robot can mimic your movements
Toyota has revealed its third generation humanoid robot, the T-HR3, which can be controlled and synchronized with the operator’s movements. The user wears data gloves and an HTC Vive VR headset that’s...
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You can virtually inhabit Toyota’s new humanoid robot
Toyota has a new, third-generation humanoid robot bears the charming name “T-HR3” and is designed to be a helpful and safe assistant to humans. It also features a so-called “master maneuvering...
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DARPA Seeking AI That Learns All the Time
Earlier this month a self-driving shuttle in Las Vegas patiently waited as a delivery truck backed up, then backed up some more, then backed right into it. Inconveniently for the roboshuttle’s...
View ArticleCEO of HQ, the Hottest App Going: If You Run This Profile, We’ll Fire Our Host
Every day, hundreds of thousands of people all over the world fire up their smartphones and log onto HQ, a live trivia app that has attracted enormous online buzz and been called the “Future of TV” in...
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DART: Noise injection for robust imitation learning
by Articles November 22, 2017 By Michael Laskey, Jonathan Lee, and Ken Goldberg In Imitation Learning (IL), also known as Learning from Demonstration (LfD), a robot learns a control policy from...
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