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RooBee One is an open-source SLA/DLP 3D printer
Aldric Negrier, a Portuguese Maker and owner of RepRap Algarve, has created an SLA 3D printer named RooBee One. Most desktop 3D printers that you’ll see in Makerspaces or advertised for home use drop...
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Google Tasks Robots with Learning Skills from One Another via Cloud Robotics
Robots are using shared data to learn skills much faster.Humans use language to tap into the knowledge of others and learn skills faster. This helps us hone our intuition and go through our daily...
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Artificial intelligence isn't the scary future. It's the amazing present.
The year 2017 arrives and we humans are still in charge. Whew! The machines haven't taken over yet, but they are gaining on us. Google's DeepMind AlphaGo computer program recently beat the world champ...
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Bett 2017: Call for volunteers in London!
Arduino Education empowers educators with the necessary hardware and software tools to create more hands-on, innovative learning experience. Later this month, we’ll be exhibiting our latest STEAM...
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Imagine New York City With 3000 Taxis Instead of 13,000
Large-capacity ride sharing services could replace 98 percent of taxi service in Manhattan, researchers report this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “We could drastically reduce...
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The robots are coming to CES, and we can't wait to meet them
There's nothing better at CES than discovering a robot on the show floor. Seriously, robots are cool. They are fun. And thanks to the newly released "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story," public sentiment...
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This 3D-printed bionic hand can replace or support a limb
3D-printed appendages are, as one might suspect, generally meant for those that are missing a limb. Moreover, there are many other people that might retain partial functionality of a hand, but could...
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China’s $9 billion effort to beat the U.S. in genetic testing
BOSTON — Lindsay Weekes knew something was wrong as soon as her son was born. Her pregnancy had been easy. The baby was a strapping 6 pounds, 12 ounces, with thick, curly black hair like his father’s....
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Home robot Kuri is like an Amazon Echo designed by Pixar
Domestic robots are sort of here, with self-driving and speakers that control your smart home, but Mayfield Robotics’ Kuri could be the first real home robot, combining mobility and true interaction...
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Mayfield Robotics Announces Kuri, a $700 Mobile Home Robot
For about two years now, Mayfield Robotics has been working on something. A robot, we’d heard. Something helpful for the home. Not a vacuum. No screen, but a face. Without much in the way of (public)...
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Amazon now has 45,000 robots in its warehouses
Amazon significantly expanded its army of warehouse robots over the course of 2016, according to a report by The Seattle Times. The newspaper — based in the same city as Amazon's global headquarters —...
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After Mastering Singapore’s Streets, NuTonomy’s Robo-taxis Are Poised to Take...
Editor's Pick Take a short walk through Singapore’s city center and you’ll cross a helical bridge modeled on the structure of DNA, pass a science museum shaped like a lotus flower, and end up in a...
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CES 2017: AR, VR, and IoT will be hot, 3D Printing Not
This week sees the annual consumer technology extravangaza that is the CES 2017 show in Las Vegas. Once almost an afterthought, technologically speaking, consumer electronics have become increasingly...
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Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic?
The central, overarching conflict of the first six Star Wars movies is that a democratic republic devolves into an authoritarian dictatorship. A key part of that political coup is Anakin Skywalker...
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CES 2017: Complete Coverage of the Best Emerging Tech
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Measure a magnet’s strength with this DIY Gauss Meter
You may know that a neodymium magnet is more powerful than something you usually find on a refrigerator, but by how much? Most people, even those willing to harvest magnets from disk drives, accept...
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Quantum computers ready to leap out of the lab in 2017
Quantum computing has long seemed like one of those technologies that are 20 years away, and always will be. But 2017 could be the year that the field sheds its research-only image. Computing giants...
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The whole philosophy community is mourning Derek Parfit. Here's why he mattered.
Derek Parfit, who died at age 74 on Sunday evening, was not the most famous philosopher in the world. But he was among the most brilliant, and his papers and books have had a profound, incalculably...
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I’ve left Twitter. It is unusable for anyone but trolls, robots and dictators
I deactivated my Twitter account today. It was more of a spontaneous impulse than a New Year resolution, although it does feel like a juice cleanse, a moulting, a polar-bear plunge, a clean slate...
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The Real Name Fallacy
By J.Nathan Matias People often say that online behavior would improve if every comment system forced people to use their real names. It sounds like it should be true – surely nobody would say mean...
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