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DARPA Challenge Tests AI as Cybersecurity Defenders
Today’s malicious hackers have an average of 312 days to exploit “zero-day” computer software flaws before human cybersecurity experts can find and fix those flaws. The U.S. military’s main research...
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SwagBot to Herd Cattle on Australian Ranches
Australia, we hear, is a big place. All that space is nice to have if you’re raising cattle, except for the fact that you’ve got to keep track of them all somehow. For ranchers, this is a lot of work,...
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Autopilot was off when Tesla Model X in Pennsylvania crashed
The Tesla Model X that crashed in Pennsylvania on July 1 had autopilot disabled at the time, Elon Musk announced on Twitter. This info comes straight from the vehicle’s own logs. Tesla has been...
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How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground @makerio @DigiKey #DeskOfLadyada
Maker to Market Step 4 – Design— How Adafruit developed Circuit Playground, an educational board for makers. This Saturday @ 10PM EDT Now that you’re finally ready to move forward with your project,...
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Video Friday: Robotic Telepresence, Pepper Helper, and a Long Journey
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your melodramatic Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two...
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5 minutes to DIY your own Pokemon Go SAFETY BADGE!
Soon after Pokeman Go released, the safety issues of playing this game outdoor have drawn a lot of attentions. Players run on the street without watching traffic,even one of them fell down from bridge....
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How the Real Hackers Behind Mr. Robot Get It So Right
This week on the premiere of Mr. Robot, the hacktivist collective fsociety made good on its threat to bring down the evil E Corp. With a few strokes of the keyboard, a USB stick and a little social...
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Robot factories could threaten jobs of millions of garment workers
The jobs of nearly 90% of garment and footwear workers in Cambodia and Vietnam are at risk from automated assembly lines – or “sewbots” – according to a new report from the International Labour...
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Has the Workplace Robot Uprising Already Begun?
A few years ago, a burrito joint near my college campus installed computers so that customers could place their orders without ever having to make eye contact with a cashier. It was meant as a...
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Republican convention gets 'bomb robots' like the one used against the Dallas...
Robots like the one police used to kill the suspect in the July 7 shooting deaths of five officers in Dallas will be available to law enforcement in charge of security at next week's Republican...
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Artificial Intelligence Swarms Silicon Valley on Wings and Wheels
“Whenever there is a new idea, the valley swarms it,” said Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of Nvidia, a chip maker that was founded to make graphic processors for the video game business but that has...
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A Lesson In Marine Science At Girls Underwater Robot Camp
When kids gaze up at the moon -- many dream about becoming astronauts. But how many look to the sea for similar inspiration? The ocean covers more than seventy percent of the planet's surface and less...
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Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All
Last June, as dusk fell outside Tony Schwartz’s sprawling house, on a leafy back road in Riverdale, New York, he pulled out his laptop and caught up with the day’s big news: Donald J. Trump had...
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Obi robot arm gives disabled diners a helping hand
Robotic cooking aids are gaining traction in the modern kitchen, but the team behind Obi has a goal more noble than just cooking up a gourmet storm. This little robot arm is designed to empower people...
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DIY Motion Control Camera Rig Produces Money Shots On A Budget
Motion control photography allows for stunning imagery, although commercial robotic MoCo rigs are hardly affordable. But what is money? Scratch-built from what used to be mechatronic junk and a hacked...
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Arduino-Powered Bioreactors Make Home Experimentation Affordable
Over the years, microbiologists and bioengineers have used bioreactors for the study of microbes and production of bio products such as precursor chemicals for pharmacies. Bioreactors are the devices...
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U.K. med-tech startup raises $20 million to bring next-gen robotics to surgery
Cambridge Medical Robotics (CMR), a U.K. medical startup building next-generation robotic technology for minimal access surgery, has raised $20.3 million in a series A round led by ABB Technology...
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SAPVoice: Will Robots Kill Jobs?
By Michael Rander, Global Research Director, Future Of Work, SAP The advent of the digital economy, robots, artificial intelligence (AI), and process automation is already starting to drive a...
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Scientists Discover How Vagus Nerve Stimulation Treats Rheumatoid Arthritis
By selectively stimulating nerve fibers running from the brain to the spleen with electricity, researchers have successfully treated a small group of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Importantly,...
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Why Tactile Intelligence Is the Future of Robotic Grasping
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. The simple task of picking something up is not as easy as it...
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