Why Isn’t the Tech Industry Doing Better on Diversity? It’s Google's and...
Three years ago, a software engineer at Pinterest, Tracy Chou, wrote a blog post calling for companies to release stats about the number of women in their tech workforces. Two years ago, thanks to the...
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37.783405 -122.399353 Sponsored by EATSA - hosted at PubNub! Now is definitely the time to bring your robot or robotics-related project since we'll have a lot of room for demos. Looking to hire or be...
View ArticleShould Engineers Start Thinking Like Field Biologists?
Editor's Pick I enjoyed Samuel Arbesman’s first book, The Half-Life of Facts, which was a discussion of the exponential pace of change, as exemplified by Moore’s Law, among other things. When I saw the...
View ArticleBiofabricate Body Parts with a Spiderwort CO2 Incubator
Spiderwort is a low cost open source CO2 incubator for mammalian cell cultures. Andrew Pelling originally built his own Arduino powered incubator for from garbage because the commercial ones cost over...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy
Summary: Today, the White House released a new report on the ways that artificial intelligence will transform our economy over the coming years and decades. Editor’s Note: Staff from the Council of...
View ArticleHow Stanford Built a Humanoid Submarine Robot to Explore a 17th-Century...
Back in April, Stanford University professor Oussama Khatib led a team of researchers on an underwater archaeological expedition30 kilometers off the southern coast of France, to La Lune, King Louis...
View ArticleNew Horizon 2020 robotics projects starting in 2017
by Research & Innovation News December 21, 2016 The list of the new H2020 project in robotics from Call 3 2016 and the call under Societal Challenges 2016 is ready. The 17 robotics projects funded...
View ArticleThe Long-Term Jobs Killer Is Not China. It’s Automation.
No candidate talked much about automation on the campaign trail. Technology is not as convenient a villain as China or Mexico, there is no clear way to stop it, and many of the technology companies are...
View ArticleExponential Growth Will Transform Humanity in the Next 30 Years
As we close out 2016, if you’ll allow me, I’d like to take a risk and venture into a topic I’m personally compelled to think about… a topic that will seem far out to most readers. Today’s extraordinary...
View ArticleWhite House taps Kamen, Manchester millyard for regenerative organ initiative
If the effort – which involves government, academia and industry – comes to fruition, it would involve the transplant of manufactured tissues and organs into patients, including injured American...
View ArticleThe future of robotics: 10 predictions for 2017 and beyond
What does the future hold for robotics? It's hard to say, given the rapid pace of change in the field as well as in associated areas such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. But one thing...
View ArticleHoliday robot videos 2016: Part 4
by Arts & Entertainment Articles December 22, 2016 Happy holidays! Have a holiday robot video of your own that you’d like to share? Send your submissions to editors@robohub.org. FZI Living Lab...
View ArticleThe 1959 Robot That Mowed the Road to Nowhere
Editor's Pick Apart from the flowers, the most exciting attraction at the 1959 Chelsea Flower Show in London was probably Queen Elizabeth II. The most exciting attraction for Queen Elizabeth herself...
View ArticleLooking towards service robotics in 2017
Sophisticated household robots are only just starting to show up in our lives, but all the building blocks for a veritable “Cambrian explosion” of robotics are there, as Gill Pratt described it when he...
View ArticleHack your Teddy Ruxpin with Arduino, Raspberry Pi and Alexa
If you had a Teddy Ruxpin in the ’80s and ’90s, you probably remember inserting special tapes and hearing him read stories to you. Whether you loved or hated the little bear, it was hard to forget his...
View ArticleWorld’s largest hedge fund to replace managers with artificial intelligence
The world’s largest hedge fund is building a piece of software to automate the day-to-day management of the firm, including hiring, firing and other strategic decision-making. Bridgewater Associates...
View ArticleIs the emphasis in your school on punishment and compliance or autonomy and...
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to this blog via e-mail or my RSS feed. I also am on Twitter. Thanks for visiting! When I was in high school, we didn’t have an ‘open campus.’ We were...
View ArticleWoman reveals she is in love with a ROBOT and wants to marry it
A French woman has revealed she is in love with a robot and determined to marry it. Lilly’s partner is a robot called InMoovator, who she 3D-printed herself and has been living with for a year. On her...
View ArticleEmacsは衰退しました
このページは、Emacs Advent Calendar が空いていたので、休日の暇な午前中を使って、こっそり駄文を仕込むものです。読んでも1ビットもEmacsの利便性は向上しませんので、その点をご覚悟とご了承の上、お読みいただければ幸甚です。 GNU Emacs が誕生してから、31年が経過しました。最初のUnixのEmacsである、Gosling...
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