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The Chinese version of Amazon is already using drones to deliver stuff to...
BEIJING — In 2013, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos used a 60 Minutes segment to demonstrate his company’s newest innovation: a drone that he said would be capable of delivering packages to a customer’s doorsteps...
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Why cute robots are important for the entire tech industry
If robots are here to stay, they’re going to have to get smarter. Anki CEO Boris Sofman says that’s not going to happen overnight: Instead, we should be figuring out how to help them learn gradually....
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How to Build a Mind? This Theory May Guide Us Toward an Answer
From time to time, the Singularity Hub editorial team unearths a gem from the archives and wants to share it all over again. It's usually a piece that was popular back then and we think is still...
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Neuromorphic Chips Are Destined for Deep Learning—or Obscurity
Editor's Pick People in the tech world talk of a technology “crossing the chasm” by making the leap from early adopters to the mass market. A case study in chasm crossing is now unfolding in...
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7 Big Tech Trends That Are Changing the Way We Make Things
Manufacturing is dirty, dull, and outmoded. It’s a slow-moving industry stuck in the past as new technologies out of Silicon Valley threaten to upend it. Stereotypes are fun, and misleading. Let’s not...
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The Engineers of the Future Will Not Resemble the Engineers of the Past
Important innovations are on the horizon in a host of fields, including energy, medicine, transportation, robotics, and artificial intelligence. And engineers will play a key role in inventing the...
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Angled rotors let drone fly in any orientation (and play catch)
Conventional multirotor drones, be they quad-, hexa-, octo- (or even 18-rotor) copters, have all their rotors positioned on the same horizontal plane. Although they're still remarkably agile, this...
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Robots Wielding Water Knives Are the Future of Farming
Just after dawn in the Salinas Valley south of San Francisco, a raucous robot rolls through a field spitting clouds of vapor. It’s cutting lettuce heads with water knives—super-high-pressure beams—and...
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Google’s AI Building AI Is a Step Toward Self-Improving AI
Reaching the technological singularity is almost certainly going to involve AI that is able to improve itself. Google may have now taken a small step along this path by creating AI that can build AI....
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Incredibly Soothing Robot Makes Towers of Balanced Stones
Building things with robots is a nice idea, especially if robots are doing what they’re best at: predictable, repetitive tasks like you get with bricklaying. When humans build structures, however, we...
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The Brain as Computer: Bad at Math, Good at Everything Else
Editor's Pick Painful exercises in basic arithmetic are a vivid part of our elementary school memories. A multiplication like 3,752 × 6,901 carried out with just pencil and paper for assistance may...
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Nanogenerator Gets More Flexible and Transparent
Just last week, a research team in South Korea that devised a way to improve the electrical output of the triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) developed by researchers at the Georgia Institute of...
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Can We Copy the Brain?
Editor's Pick In the mid-1940s, a few brilliant people drew up the basic blueprints of the computer age. They conceived a general-purpose machine based on a processing unit made up of specialized...
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Can We Copy the Brain?
Trying to create consciousness may be the path to understanding this most deeply mysterious human attribute A researcher imagines how true artificial intelligence will change the world Modeling...
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Human-level AI Is Right Around the Corner—or Hundreds of Years Away
Editor's Pick Artificial intelligence is progressing rapidly, and its impact on our daily lives will only increase. Today, there are still many things humans can do that computers can’t. But will it...
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An Optimistic Take on Cybersecurity from Qualcomm’s Alex Gantman
The bad news: Engineers today are doomed to never fully understand their complex creations. The good news: Cybersecurity efforts, thanks to the natural evolution of technical things, are not doomed....
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Paul Allen just rolled out the world’s largest airplane, and he is ready to...
The initial construction of the massive airplane Paul Allen has been quietly building in the California desert is complete, and the vehicle, which would be the world’s largest airplane with a wingspan...
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Two robotic personalities in the news
Andy Rubin, who developed the Android operating system at Google and then went on to lead Google through multiple acquisitions into robotics, has launched a new consumer products company. Anthony...
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Draper's Genetically Modified Cyborg DragonflEye Takes Flight
In January, we wrote about a cybernetic micro air vehicle under development at Draper called DragonflEye. DragonflEye consists of a living, slightly modified dragonfly that carries a small backpack of...
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