Why Softbank Bought Boston Dynamics
Google has ended one part of its foray into robotics with a deal to sell Boston Dynamics, maker of the BigDog quadruped and Atlas humanoid robots, to Japanese mobile carrier SoftBank Corp., known for...
View ArticleGinkgo Bioworks CEO Jason Kelly: We’re Building the Microbe Design Industry
As part of our new book “What’s Your Bio Strategy?” we’ve interviewed dozens of entrepreneurs, business leaders and academics working on synthetic biology. The following is an excerpt from one of those...
View ArticleSingle-Layer 2D Magnets Are Here
Scientists from the University of Washington and MIT have demonstrated that a monolayer of a two-dimensional material can exhibit an intrinsic magnetism. This might seem like the latest in a series of...
View ArticleRow Bots Test Whether Human Rowers Have Been Doing It Wrong
There are two different ways to row a boat with a bunch of oars. You can either do it synchronously, with everyone pulling all together and at the same time, or asynchronously, with rowers pulling in...
View ArticleA capacitive touch Jankó keyboard
If you have even a passing familiarity with how to play a piano, you know that there are a bunch of long white keys, with a lesser number of black keys in a nearly-universal arrangement. On the other...
View ArticleFREE LEARNING - HELP YOURSELF
Extend, enhance and develop the functionality of Drupal with this essential guide to building Drupal modules. Combining the knowledge of six expert Drupal developers, you’ll learn everything you need...
View ArticleMore manufacturing jobs came back to the U.S. than left last year
In the long run, many academics and entrepreneurs think that automation and robotics are going to replace a significant percentage, if not the overwhelming majority, of manufacturing jobs. That’s...
View ArticleNanoparticles that chat back and forth could dispense medication
Two nanoparticles have communicated with one another to perform a task for the first time, paving the way for more complex nanomachines that could be useful in areas such as cancer treatment....
View ArticleSynthetic Biology: Next Wave of Disruption for Industrialization of Biology
Synthetic biology—a relatively new field that aims to make biology easier to engineer—is quietly disrupting traditional manufacturing methods, leading to the industrialization of biology and a global...
View ArticleAlphabet Just Sold Two Companies to a CEO Who Wants to Speed up the Singularity
In Brief SoftBank beefs up its robotics arsenal by acquiring Alphabet companies Boston Dynamics and Schaft. The purchase could help the company's CEO reach his goal of ensuring the Singularity happens...
View ArticleThe Robot-Human Alliance
June 11, 2017 4:39 p.m. ET Humans have been beaten by a machine again. Last month the world’s top-ranked player of Go, an abstract strategy board game, lost to Google’s AlphaGo program. This marked a...
View ArticleOne year later, here’s the state of the chatbot economy
“What’s the state of the global chatbot economy today?” That’s a question that I’ve been asked a lot lately, and one that I’m hoping to get more answers to by attending the second edition of Chatbot...
View ArticleThis robot-powered restaurant is one step closer to putting fast-food workers...
A secretive robotics startup has raised a new round of venture funding as part of its quest to replace humans with robots in the kitchens of fast-food restaurants. Momentum Machines secured over $18...
View ArticleExclusive: GE begins testing drones to inspect refineries, factories
SEATTLE General Electric Co has begun testing autonomous drones and robotic "crawlers" to inspect refineries, factories, railroads and other industrial equipment with an eye on capturing a bigger slice...
View ArticleOpinion
This year, Mr. Rodríguez returned to the parole board with the same faulty Compas score. He had identified an error in one of the inputs for his Compas assessment. But without knowing the input...
View ArticleThe Robot Academy: Lessons in image formation and 3D vision
by Education-DIY Learn June 13, 2017 The Robot Academy is a new learning resource from Professor Peter Corke and the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), the team behind the award-winning...
View ArticleTertill: The solar powered weeding robot for home gardens
$29,679 Funding Suspended Project Purged Back this project Favorite Share $29,679 Funding Suspended Project Purged Back this project Favorite Share Tertill is a solar-powered and weatherproof robot...
View ArticleWouldn’t You Like Alexa Better if It Knew When It Was Annoying You?
What could your computer, phone, or other gadget do differently if it knew how you were feeling? Rana el Kaliouby, founder and CEO of Affectiva, is considering the possibilities of such a world....
View ArticleSony Adds Toio Cubes to Its Arsenal of Strange Robotic Toys
From Sony, the company that brought you the amazing Aibo and the slightly less amazing Rolly, comes a new consumer robotic toy: Toio, a “toy platform” consisting of little robotic cubes on wheels. It’s...
View ArticleMechanical Turing Machine in Wood
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