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Society set for head-on collision with driverless cars
Evangelists for driverless cars see a bright future coming down the road: thousands of lives saved, countless driving hours freed up, cityscapes transformed with traffic jams vanquished. But the new...
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Women hate Donald Trump so much they are even marching against him in Antarctica
Donald Trump is so unpopular that there are even women marching against him in Antarctica. The day after the inauguration of a president who bragged about grabbing women by their genitals, thousands...
View Article11 Habits of an Effective Teacher
I really appreciate teachers who are truly passionate about teaching. The teacher who wants to be an inspiration to others. The teacher who is happy with his/her job at all times. The teacher who every...
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STEM Education is Critical to a Vibrant Manufacturing Future
On behalf of Yaskawa Motoman, Roger Christian, the divisional leader of New Business Development for the Dayton, Ohio-based robotics company, shares an optimistic view of U.S. manufacturing's future....
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Mark Cuban publicly asks Trump to become the robotics president
One of the most outspoken critics of President-elect Donald Trump leading up to the election was Mark Cuban, tech mogul, owner of the NBA's Mavericks and Shark Tank co-host. Now Cuban has apparently...
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Waymo reveals completely homegrown sensor suite for Pacifica autonomous test car
Waymo CEO John Krafcik is delivering the keynote address at the North American Auto Show’s Automobili-D conference Sunday, and he’s revealing a lot about the new Alphabet company’s progress and tech....
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Europe calls for mandatory 'kill switches' on robots
European lawmakers have proposed that robots be equipped with emergency "kill switches" to prevent them from causing excessive damage. Legislators have also suggested that robots be insured and even be...
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Why It's So Hard For Robots To Get A Grip
Berkeley robotics professor Ken Goldberg is turning an empty coffee mug around and around in his hands. "Oh, it's so complicated for a robot to be able to make sense of that kind of data," he says,...
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The tiniest surgical robots are revolutionizing eye surgery
Machines that are capable of making precise operations inside the human eye will make it possible to perform entirely new procedures. by Simon Parkin January 19, 2017 Recommended for You Alexa Gives...
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The Touchy Task of Making Robots Seem Human—But Not Too Human
2017 is poised to be the year of the robot assistant. If you’re in the market, you’ll have plenty to choose from. Some look like descendants of Honda’s Asimo—shiny white bots with heads, eyes, arms,...
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Rogue Scientists Race to Save Climate Data from Trump
At 10 AM the Saturday before inauguration day, on the sixth floor of the Van Pelt Library at the University of Pennsylvania, roughly 60 hackers, scientists, archivists, and librarians were hunched over...
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Hundreds of elusive protein structures pinned down from genome data
“Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.” —“Scarlet Begonias,” The Grateful Dead When Robert Hunter (lyricist for many Dead tunes) wrote those lines,...
View ArticleThe Positive Reframe: Why Trump’s Inauguration is Not the Beginning of an Era...
“We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism. It is common to hear people say that the epoch of enormous economic progress which characterized the 19th century is over; that the...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson's Newest STEM campaign
Neil deGrasse Tyson weighs in on the Cosmic Perspective and how we can "Make America Smart Again" Neil deGrasse Tyson wants to "make America smart again," and he needs help from both STEM and non-STEM...
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This Robot Muscle Keeps Pig Hearts Pumping, May Save People Too
Warning: The above video and below images may be considered NSFW, and are not for the faint of heart. As great as it would be to tackle serious bodily injuries Tony Stark-style with an arc reactor,...
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Late Night with LRIG
APPLICATION Sponsored by the Laboratory Robotics Interest Group, European Laboratory Robotics Interest Group Don't miss this exclusive opportunity for exhibiting companies to present their latest...
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Image-processing algorithms could speed up the search for drugs to treat rare...
A startup uses algorithms that understand the anatomy of cells to discover new uses for existing drugs. by Tom Simonite January 24, 2017 Image: Cells modified to model spinal muscular atrophy, a rare...
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How regenerative agriculture and robotics can benefit each other
by Environment&Agriculture Views January 25, 2017 I’ve come around to the view that the best and most inclusive term for high-concept farming which is both sustainably productive and ecologically...
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Where Are the Software Engineering Jobs? In Cybersecurity
There are a million unfilled cybersecurity engineering jobs around the world, with that number expected to grow to 1.5 million by 2019. But where are the jobs, and what kinds of jobs are they? Job...
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City Solar Power Potential and Road Network Size Linked
Scientists could estimate a city's solar power potential by analyzing the size of its road network, a new study finds. Inspired by studies on the relationships between blood vessel networks and a...
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