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FIRST LEGO League Global Innovation
Use the search filters below to refine your search for a Semi-Finalist team submission. Click on the invention name for a description of the team and their innovative solution for TRASH TREKSM....
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11 talks to watch when you're stuck in a rut
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Cool Project: VEX IQ Smart Radio and iOS
Our friend, Simon Burfield, put together a fantastic tutorial on how to get the your VEX IQ brain transferring data with your bluetooth enabled smartphone using the VEX Smart Radio and ROBOTC. Who...
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Would You Trust a Robot Surgeon to Operate on You?
Inside the glistening red cave of the patient’s abdomen, surgeon Michael Stifelman carefully guides two robotic arms to tie knots in a piece of thread. He manipulates a third arm to drive a suturing...
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Wind generation pushes limits in extreme locations
A wind turbine is a complex structure made up of thousands of electrical and mechanical components that together have a simple function – to reliably and efficiently harness the wind to generate...
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Building a Nation of Makers
[OP-ED: How America Can Win the STEM Race] [READ: Non-STEM Fields Now Require STEM Skills] [PHOTOS: The Big Picture – May 2016]
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Blade Runner
After studying Alien in intimate detail, it’s time to look at the typography and design of Ridley Scott‘s other classic sci-fi movie, Blade Runner. Based on Philip K. Dick‘s novel Do Androids Dream of...
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This Is the Tech That Will Make Learning as Addictive as Video Games
0 The way we learn today is just wrong. Learning needs to be less like memorization, and more like…Angry Birds. Half of school dropouts name boredom as the number one reason they left. How do we get...
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Talking Machines: Fantasizing cats and data numbers, with Iain Murray
by Talking Machines Talk June 20, 2016 In episode twelve of season two, we discuss generative adversarial networks, take a listener question about using machine learning to improve or create products,...
View ArticleTen Years of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Ten years ago today, Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories went live. Happy birthday to us! We started Evil Mad Scientist way back in 2006 as a blog to help us document and organize our various hobby...
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Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan
MUNICH, Germany Europe's growing army of robot workers could be classed as "electronic persons" and their owners liable to paying social security for them if the European Union adopts a draft plan to...
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FAA announcement for sUAS met with industry excitement
by Diana Marina Cooper Aerial News June 21, 2016 This morning, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) released the highly anticipated rules governing the operation of small UAS (sUAS) for commercial...
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Custom Processor Speeds Up Robot Motion Planning by Factor of 1,000
If you’ve ever seen a live robot manipulation demo, you’ve almost certainly noticed that the robot probably spends a lot of time looking like it’s not doing anything. It’s tempting to say that the...
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Nanocones Boost Efficiency of Solar-based Water Splitting
The long list of attempts to use the sun to split water, and thus isolate hydrogen, has always had one big issue: energy conversion efficiency. Sure, solar-based water-splitting processes don’t yield...
View ArticleTesla Makes Offer to Acquire SolarCity
Tesla’s mission has always been tied to sustainability. We seek to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable transportation by offering increasingly affordable electric vehicles. And in March...
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Segway miniPRO is the personal transportation device you’ve been waiting for
The Ninebot by Segway miniPRO is not a hoverboard. Instead, it’s a true descendant of the original revolution in personal transportation, the Segway. Fifteen years ago, dungaree-wearing inventor Dean...
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Google Tackles Challenge of How to Build an Honest Robot
Google can see a future where robots help us unload the dishwasher and sweep the floor. The challenge is making sure they don’t inadvertently knock over a vase --- or worse -- while doing so....
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Can a Wall-Climbing Robot Teach Your Kid to Code?
This story was produced by the Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. In May, a few hand-size, hexagonal robots took over a...
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Google's AI researchers say these are the five key problems for robot safety
Google is worried about artificial intelligence. No, not that it will become sentient and take over the world, but that, say, a helpful house robot might accidentally skewer its owner with a knife. The...
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