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Sucking robot arm wins Amazon Picking Challenge
A robotic arm that combines a suction cup, a "two-fingered" gripper and a 3D depth-sensing camera has won Amazon's latest warehouse bot competition. Team Delft's machine triumphed over its rivals at...
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Amazon’s latest robot champion uses deep learning to stock shelves
Amazon has crowned the latest champion in its robotic picking challenge — an annual competition that look for robots that could one day work in the company's warehouses. It's basically American Idol,...
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How To Raise Brilliant Children, According to Science
Becoming Brilliant What Science Tells Us About Raising Successful Children Paperback, 314 pages | purchase Your purchase helps support NPR programming. How? Amazon Independent Booksellers "Why are...
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Exclusive interview with Autodesk about the CadSoft EAGLE purchase! @autodesk...
THE EAGLE HAS LANDED. We posted up last week (and in our daily “Maker Business newsletter @ adafruitdaily.com) that Autodesk PURCHASED CadSoft EAGLE, not just a one-seat license, the entire thing 🙂...
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See What Happens When Killer Robots Are Born in a Car Factory
Could you imagine a robot takeover beginning anywhere other than a major automobile factory? It only makes sense—car plants are already some of the most automated, robot-packed spots on the planet....
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Google's robot cars recognize cyclists' hand signals
Biking alongside manually driven cars can be a nightmare for both the biker and the driver. Bikers can be fast. They weave in and out of traffic and sometimes human drivers toe the line when deciding...
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Scientists are teaching robots how to hunt down prey
Intelligent robots are all well and good until they start learning how to hunt prey. That's exactly what a team of scientists at the Institute of Neuroinformatics at the University of Zurich in...
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Delivery robots to replace takeaway drivers in London trial
Your next Saturday night takeaway could be brought to you by a robot after a major food delivery company announced plans to use automated vehicles to transport meals. Europe's biggest online takeaway...
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Starship's self-driving robots to deliver Just Eat orders in London
In the coming weeks, six-wheeled robots developed by Starship Technologies will hit the streets of London to help deliver meals ordered from two of the UK's biggest food delivery startups. The company,...
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Germany wins world cup of robot football
As the old adage goes, football is a simple game; 22 men kick a ball about for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans win on penalties. But it appears the saying goes even when the game is being played...
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Tesla Autopilot Crash Exposes Industry Divide
The first death of a driver in a Tesla Model S with its Autopilot system engaged has exposed a fault line running through the self-driving car industry. In one camp, Tesla and many other car-makers...
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Supercapacitors Reach Into EV and IoT Applications
Supercapacitors have become ubiquitous at this point. They provide everything from back-up power for mobile phones to extending the battery life of devices that sometimes need quick bursts of power...
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This Walking Robot Looks Extremely Drunk
Like humans, robots often need to learn things the hard way. For super complex automatons, like Boston Dynamics’ Atlas, that can mean understanding the complexities of human bullying. But in the case...
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As Self-Driving Cars Hit the Road, Innovation Is Outpacing Insurance
Advances in self-driving car technology have gotten ahead of insurers’ ability to factor the systems into auto premiums. So at least for now, coverage for cars using self-driving technology works the...
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This 4-Foot-Tall Robot Transforms into a Car in Seconds
Over the last century or so, transforming robots have reached their way into popular culture through a variety of creative outlets — nostalgic mid-century animation, articulated plastic toys,...
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Tesla and Google Take Different Roads to Self-Driving Car
SAN FRANCISCO — In Silicon Valley, where companies big and small are at work on self-driving cars, there have been a variety of approaches, and even some false starts. The most divergent paths may be...
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Geta load of this, Chinese robot parks your car for you
SHENZHEN, China The dreaded act of parallel parking could soon become a thing of the past with Chinese inventors backing their new parking robot to take away the stress for anxious drivers. The...
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Uber Hired a Robot to Patrol Its Parking Lot and It's Way Cheaper Than a...
Uber drivers who pay a visit to the company’s inspection lot near Mission Bay in San Francisco will be met with a rather strange sight: a five-foot-tall, white, egg-shaped robot wheeling around the...
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An Open Letter to Jared Kushner, From One of Your Jewish Employees
Dear Mr. Kushner, My name is Dana Schwartz and I’m an entertainment writer at the Observer, the paper owned by your publishing company. On July 2, as I’m sure you’re aware (and have probably been...
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Your Smart Watch Can Steal Your ATM PIN
Mobile systems and cyber security expert Yan Wang doesn’t wear a smart watch. “It knows too much,” says Wang, an assistant professor of computer science at Binghamton University in Upstate New York....
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