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Soft Robotics Commercialization: Jamming Grippers from Research to Product
All Issues In This Issue Previous Article Next Article About This Journal... To cite this article:Amend John, Cheng Nadia, Fakhouri Sami, and Culley Bill. Soft Robotics. December 2016, 3(4): 213-222....
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Double Robotics says it has sold 8,000 robots and generated $20 million in...
Double Robotics says there’s a big audience for its telepresence robots and thinks it has the numbers to prove it. In the past four years, the company said, more than 8,000 of its robots were sold...
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I Ran for Office and Won. Here’s How.
You—yes, you—should be running for political office. But what would it entail, exactly? Slate spoke to four first-time candidates who won their races in November about their experiences campaigning and...
View ArticleCatalia Health using social robots for health
Catalia Health is leading the surge in social robotics, with Mabu, their patient care management system. Catalia Health likes to be seen primarily as a health company that utilizes robots, rather than...
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New tool can help policymakers prioritize information needs for synthetic...
New technologies are developed at a rapid pace, often reaching the marketplace before policymakers can determine how or whether they should be governed. Now researchers from North Carolina State...
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Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
In recent days, the White House had signaled that Mr. Obama was seriously considering granting Ms. Manning’s commutation application, in contrast to a pardon application submitted on behalf of the...
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Industry Experts, Come Speak at RoboBusiness 2017!
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — RoboBusiness, the global congress of robotics and business, is accepting proposals from qualified presenters for our 13th annual conference, which will be held on Sept. 27 and 28,...
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Human organs-on-chips: Harvard develops microchips lined with living cells to...
Biological engineers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering have invented a microchip that can be lined with living human cells in order to revolutionise medicine,...
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Engineering is the bottleneck in (Deep Learning) Research
Warning: This a rant post containing a bunch of organized thoughts. When I was in graduate school working on NLP and information extraction I spent most of my time coding up research ideas. That’s what...
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Japanese toilet industry agrees to standardize complex bidet controls
The Japan Sanitary Equipment Industry Association, a consortium of companies producing plumbing products including Toto, Panasonic, and Toshiba, has agreed to unify the iconography used on the often...
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Velodyne Plans a Lidar Megafactory
After years of dominating the market for automotive lidar thanks to the simple fact of being in it first, Velodyne is now shaking off new contenders by expanding a megafactory in San Jose, Calif. This...
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Soft Robot Hugs Your Heart to Keep It Pumping
An engineer, a cardiac surgeon, and a graduate student walk into a bar. Three years later, they emerge with a funnel-shaped robot that enfolds the mammalian heart, then actively compresses and twists...
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Wearable Sensors Spot Lyme Disease
Stanford professor Michael Snyder was flying to Norway for a family vacation last year, wearing a Basis smart watch (since discontinued), a RadTarge radiation monitor, and iHealth, Scanadu, and Masimo...
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‘He has this deep fear that he is not a legitimate president’
In the days immediately after the election that shocked the world, POLITICO Magazine convened the group of people who know Donald J. Trump better than anyone outside his family. We asked his...
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Untethered One-Legged Hopping in 3D Using Linear Elastic Actuator in Parallel...
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This Isn't a Robot (Produced by RadicalMedia)
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Virtual Reality on the Cheap? Try These Apps on Your Phone
AT last week’s annual International CES, one of the largest technology conventions, virtual reality goggles were hyped as a way to get a taste of the immersive 3-D technology. Yet many people may be...
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$250 million awarded to new Advanced Robotics Manufacturing Innovation Hub
by Business & Finance Views January 18, 2017 Headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, the new institute is made up of governments, industry, academia, and non-profit organizations from across the country....
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Get Ready to Love Math With This Sweet VR Calculator
“Our universe isn’t just described by math, but it is math in the sense that we’re all parts of a giant mathematical object.” – Max Tegmark I knew virtual reality was going to make mathematical...
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Is Trump Writing His Inaugural Address From a Mar-a-Lago Receptionist’s Desk?
Earlier today, Donald Trump tweeted what he said was a three-week-old picture of himself writing his inaugural address from a desk in his Palm Beach mansion Mar-a-Lago, or, sorry, the “Winter White...
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