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Driverless Cars Will Be Part of a $7 Trillion Market by 2050
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I would spend $10K to furnish my apartment with MIT’s robot furniture
Back in 2014, MIT debuted CityHome, a solution for tiny living spaces with the ability to pack several home necessities into a single, movable modular unit. Today, the concept — now renamed Ori...
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Condoms were provided by the school nurse without question. Sex education taught us the dangers of venereal diseases and unwanted pregnancy, but it also focused on fun stuff like masturbation. For a...
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SoftWear Automation raises $4.5 million to build robots that sew
Remember the good old days when cartoon robot toys were all the rage? Maybe you were a Transformers kid or maybe you were into Microbots. And, if you were very lucky, you got to experience to joy of...
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A Hybrid of Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Is Spawning New Ventures
Machine learning, the field of AI that allows Alexa and Siri to parse what you say and self-driving cars to safely drive down a city street, could benefit from quantum computer-derived speedups, say...
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Tertill: A weed whacking robot to patrol your garden
by Environment-Agriculture Learn June 13, 2017 Franklin Robotics has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Tertill, their solar-powered, garden-weeding robot. Robohub Crowdfunding Tertill lives in your...
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Harvard scientists use simple materials to create semi-soft robots
At the beginning of the decade, George Whitesides helped rewrite the rules of what a machine could be with the development of biologically inspired “soft robots.” Now he’s poised to rewrite them again,...
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These Freaky Robots Were Built From Drinking Straws and Inspired by Spiders
Emulating spiders and bugs, and using drinking straws as basic building blocks, a research team from Harvard University has developed a type of semi-soft robot capable of standing, walking, and even...
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Harvard team constructs insect-inspired robots from drinking straws
Rigid steel-and-plastic robots have their place, but some applications require a softer touch. Already in development are light-powered tiny caterpillars, chemical-powered squishy octopi, and a robot...
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High-speed light-based systems could replace supercomputers for certain ‘deep...
A team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere has developed a new approach to deep learning systems — using light instead of electricity, which they say could vastly improve the speed and efficiency of...
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Stanford Robots Load a Hovering Drone, Solve a Marble Maze, and More
Robots that sketch, play ping pong, solve mazes, and attempt to juggle strutted their stuff at the annual demo day for Stanford’s Experimental Robotics class. Each year, Professor Oussama Khatib’s...
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Wireless Power to Moving Electric Vehicles Closer to Reality
Wireless charging of moving electric vehicles is one step closer to hitting the road, Stanford University researchers say. Such technology could also help charge mobile devices, medical implants, and...
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Women in Robotics
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Four-Armed Marimba Robot Uses Deep Learning to Compose Its Own Music
The Georgia Tech Center for Music Technology, led by Gil Weinberg, has a reputation for doing incredible musical things with robots, with a mix of creativity and technical expertise in robotics and AI....
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This summer, students have the opportunity to learn how to program robots using a free copy of Robot Virtual Worlds programming software (www.robotvirtualworlds.com). The course is led by a live...
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Infographic: Google Leads the Race for AI Domination
Artificial Intelligence Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, is the company’s biggest event of the year. One of the main talking points at this year’s conference will likely be...
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2017 is the year of artificial intelligence. Here’s why
A recent acceleration of innovation in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made it a hot topic in boardrooms, government, and the media. But it is still early, and everyone seems to have a different view...
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DIY Robocars
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The Most Exciting Drones Aren't in the Air
In July, three odd-looking, 23-foot-long sailboats will launch from a dock in Alaska's Dutch Harbor. They will meander the seas between the U.S. and Russia to track ice melt, measure the ocean's levels...
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Neural Implant Tech Raises the Specter of Brainjacking
The human mind is already pretty open to manipulation—just ask anyone who works in advertising. But neural implant technology could potentially open up a direct digital link to our innermost thoughts...
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