Robots, jobs and the human fear of change
When it comes to technology’s impact on the economy, there continues to be concern that robots and other advances will lead to unemployment. But what does history really tell us about the impact of new...
View ArticleNASA Wants SpacePoop Hackers
NASA is looking for a few good men and women to solve an upcoming problem. Astronauts will soon be venturing outward beyond Earth orbit. If the spacecraft cabin should depressurize then they’ll have to...
View ArticleWhy Ex-Hacker George Hotz is Giving Away Self-Driving Software
George Hotz, at 27 a past master of hacking, has outdone himself by giving away software that he says turns a modestly smart car into one that can more or less drive itself. He contends that it...
View ArticleThis Bricklaying Robot Can Build Low-Cost Houses In Two Days
A new bricklaying robot—designed to build an entire house in two days—was originally created to help meet labor shortages. But the robot can also cut construction waste and save so much money that it...
View ArticleDemo: The Ekso GT Robotic Exoskeleton for Parapalegics and Stroke Patients
When Kevin Oldt crashed his snowmobile in January 2001, his doctors told him that his spinal cord injury meant he’d never walk again. He was devastated. So it’s with great satisfaction that he tells me...
View ArticleSoon We’ll All Love Robots the Way Japan Loves Robots
0 Here is my hypothesis: Japan has a long ongoing love affair with humanoid robots. The love seems so strong that they are willing to accept faults and imperfections that to others make the robots seem...
View ArticleHow to Program a Quadruped Robot with Arduino
Legged robots are the great! They can handle tough terrain much better than their wheeled counterparts and move in more varied and animalistic ways. However this makes legged robots more complicated,...
View ArticleMake your own Power Meter/Logger
In this project I will show you how I combined an Arduino, an INA219 power monitor IC, an OLED LCD and a Micro SD Card PCB in order to create a power meter/logger that has more functions than the...
View ArticleFear of the Dark: Why Netflix's 'Black Mirror' Is Great Science Fiction
Legendary science fiction author Isaac Asimov once said, “The core of science fiction, its essence, has become crucial to our salvation, if we are to be saved at all.” With its aim to predict and...
View ArticleHome farming robot
Find out why Loading... Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Aug 2, 2016Many people of today's...
View ArticleFacebook’s advice to students interested in artificial intelligence
Math. Math. Oh and perhaps some more math. That’s the gist of the advice to students interested in AI from Facebook’s Yann LeCun and Joaquin Quiñonero Candela who run the company’s Artificial...
View ArticleLet’s Fight Back Against Poachers with a Robotic Rhino
Since 2010, poachers in South Africa have killed more than 5,000 rhinos. In Asia, two rhino species—Javan and Sumatran—are critically endangered. According to the World Wildlife Foundation, poachers...
View ArticleBuilding Beautiful Cell Phones Out Of FR4
Over on Hackaday.io, [bobricius] took this technology and designed something great. It’s a GSM cell phone with a case made out of FR4. It’s beautiful, and if you’re ever in need of a beautifully...
View ArticleTässä ovat it-alan 100 vaikuttajaa 2016
Listasimme Suomen it-alan vaikuttajat 14. kerran. Joka viides nimi listalla on uusi. It-alan merkittävimpien vaikuttajien listaaminen on ollut Tivin ja sen edeltäjistä Tietoviikon perinne jo vuodesta...
View ArticleInsideDNA looks deep into your DNA to determine the best drugs to cure what...
Using a computational platform and your DNA, bioinformatics startup InsideDNA aims to determine the right drug interaction for your body. The startup began three years ago as a cloud-based platform for...
View ArticleUber Bets on Artificial Intelligence With Acquisition and New Lab
SAN FRANCISCO — Uber envisions a future in which a fleet of vehicles can make the most complex maneuvers while carting passengers around without the help of a driver. To achieve that, cars will need to...
View ArticleA Brief Patent Primer
RepublishReprint This is a guest post from Mark D. Shtilerman1 and Joseph Eng Jr. Dr. Shtilerman is Senior Counsel at Deerfield Management, and Dr. Eng is Counsel at Hogan Lovells. Science and...
View ArticleWatch Boston Dynamics’ founder and his robot SpotMini join us on stage to...
What is Boston Dynamics? The easy answer for that: a company that makes crazy advanced robots that can walk — be it on two feet or four — better than just about any other robot in the world. We’ve seen...
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