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New toolkit makes it easy to drag and drop your own robot
The old song tells us that leg bone is connected to the hip bone how are we to know if the articulated cam can connect to the brushless motor? There are, sadly, no songs designed to tell us how to...
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Europe regulates robotics: Summer school brings together researchers and...
by Politics-Law-Society Learn June 1, 2017 After a successful 2016 first edition, our next summer school cohort on The Regulation of Robotics in Europe: Legal, Ethical and Economic Implications will...
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May 2017 fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures
May 2017 had two robotics-related companies get $9.5 billion in funding and 22 others raised $249 million. Acquisitions also continued to be substantial with Toyota Motor's $260 million acquisition of...
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Apple’s Swift Playgrounds coding app now supports robots, drones, and toys
Apple today announced that its education programming iPad app, Swift Playgrounds, will soon support robots and drones. That means young kids and students will be able to write their own Swift code to...
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Why Rat-Brained Robots Are So Good at Navigating Unfamiliar Terrain
Editor's Pick If you take a common brown rat and drop it into a lab maze or a subway tunnel, it will immediately begin to explore its surroundings, sniffing around the edges, brushing its whiskers...
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Afghan Wireless Launches First 4G LTE Network in Afghanistan
In May 2017, Afghan Wireless announced a milestone—the company had launched the first 4G LTE service in Afghanistan. That service is now live in Kabul, and the company plans to extend 4G LTE to the...
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OneLogin password manager has been hacked, exposing sensitive customer data
Password manager and single sign-on provider OneLogin has been hacked, the company has confirmed. In a brief blog post, the company's chief security officer Alvaro Hoyos said that it had "detected...
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Researchers Invent New Method for Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation
When Edward Boyden and Nir Grossman at the MIT Media Lab in the spring of 2014 met for a brainstorming session, they made a list of every possible way one could artificially excite brain cells. They...
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Pinboard Acquires Delicious Pinboard has acquired Delicious. Here’s what you need to know: If you’re a Pinboard user, nothing will change. Sad! If you’re a Delicious user, you will have to find another...
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Aquatic Fixed-Wing Drone Could Lake-Hop Across Canada
Fixed-wing drones are the way to go for efficient flying, but they pose challenges for long term autonomy because of how demanding they are when it comes to takeoffs and landings. You need a nice big...
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What Intelligent Machines Need to Learn From the Neocortex
Editor's Pick Computers have transformed work and play, transportation and medicine, entertainment and sports. Yet for all their power, these machines still cannot perform simple tasks that a child can...
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Opinion: Raspberry Pi Merger With CoderDojo Isn't All It Seems
This past Friday, the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the CoderDojo Foundation became one. The Raspberry Pi Foundation described it as “a merger that will give many more young people all over the world new...
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Video Friday: Robot Dance Teacher, Transformer Drone, and Pneumatic Reel...
The week is almost over, and so is the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Singapore. We hope you’ve been enjoying our coverage, which has featured aquatic drones,...
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Sensing Technologies Driving Tomorrow's Solutions
Sensors Expo was featured once again in Tradeshow Executive Magazine as a Growth Leader! The rising market demand for sensor technology coupled with requirements for education and access to the latest...
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Why are there still so many jobs?
Here's a paradox you don't hear much about: despite a century of creating machines to do our work for us, the proportion of adults in the US with a job has consistently gone up for the past 125 years....
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Drones: Is the Sky the Limit showcases drone tech from earliest stages to now
Drones have become so mainstream that you may have considered getting one for a family member or a friend for their birthday. But this wasn't the case just a few decades ago, when drones were mostly...
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Quanta Magazine - Illuminating Science
cognitive scienceSpiders appear to offload cognitive tasks to their webs, making them one of a number of species with a mind that isn’t fully confined within the head. Millions of years ago, a few...
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Coloured light can be used to control how genetically-engineered organisms behave THE central idea of synthetic biology is that living cells can be programmed in the same way that computers can, in...
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Why You Should Take Your Kids To a Maker Faire
migrationDramatic Video Shows Dozens of Migrants Rescued From Burning Boat in the MediterraneanEducationHigh School Criticized by Betsy DeVos Fires Back: She 'Messed With the Wrong District'Books5...
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Robots Were Supposed to Take Our Jobs. So, Where Are They?
Lots of people think that the robots are coming to steal everybody’s jobs. I even wrote a whole thing about what would happen if they did. But another story is emerging from several recent papers and...
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