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Assemble a Robot Opponent for Air Hockey
Never be without a worthy adversary with the Air Hockey Robot EVO. It’s easy to set up and deploy, and it’s controlled by your Android smartphone. This open source robot can be scratch-built using...
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A Colonoscopy Robot and Other Weird Biomedical Tech From IEEE's Biggest...
A host of bizarre biomedical robots turned up at ICRA 2017, IEEE’s flagship robotics conference, which took place earlier this month in Singapore. We saw swallowable robots that poke the stomach with...
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Michelin's concept tire comes wrapped in "rechargeable" 3D-printed...
Aside from trotting out a new tread pattern every year or so, you might think there's not a lot manufacturers could do to improve the humble car tire. But advances in materials, sensors and...
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Japan’s answer to the Amazon Echo comes in ‘bear’ or ‘duck’
Western tech giants aren’t the only ones trying to get users to talk to their computers — Japanese messaging giant Line is also getting involved. Earlier this year the company announced it would be...
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Developers who use spaces make more money than those who use tabs
Do you use tabs or spaces for code indentation? This is a bit of a “holy war” among software developers; one that’s been the subject of many debates and in-jokes. I use spaces, but I never thought it...
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Quantum Networks in Space Closer to Reality
The dream of a space-based nigh-unhackable quantum Internet may now be closer to reality thanks to new experiments with Chinese and European satellites, two new studies find. Quantum physics makes a...
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How Women Mentors Make a Difference in Engineering
For some women, enrolling in an engineering course is like running a psychological gauntlet. If they dodge overt problems like sexual harassment, sexist jokes, or poor treatment from professors, they...
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AI for Good Global Summit welcomes “new frontier” for sustainable development
by Politics-Law-Society News June 7, 2017 The world’s brightest minds in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and humanitarian action will meet with industry leaders and academia at the AI for Good Global...
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No more playing games: AlphaGo AI to tackle some real world challenges
by Politics-Law-Society Learn June 8, 2017 Humankind lost another important battle with artificial intelligence (AI) last month when AlphaGo beat the world’s leading Go player Ke Jie by three games to...
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Indoor drones make history on Broadway
by Aerial Articles June 14, 2017 For the first time on Broadway human and drone performances fuse to create a new form of artistic expression. The magic happened in Cirque du Soleil’s first musical on...
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Five rules for starting up in synthetic biology
Since the advent of life 3.6 billion years ago, the survival of all species has depended on rapid innovation at the genetic level. As a consequence, our planet has grown rich with evolved technologies....
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Global Innovation Index 2017: Switzerland, Sweden, Netherlands, USA, UK Top...
Geneva, June 15, 2017 PR/2017/808 Released jointly by WIPO, Cornell University, INSEAD and the 2017 GII Knowledge Partners, the Confederation of Indian Industry, PwC’s Strategy&, and the National...
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2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation: A summary
by Events Views June 15, 2017 It was a hectic but interesting week at the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Singapore. Here’s a brief recap of some of my observations and...
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New antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteria: First selective...
Science News from research organizations Date: Source: Rutgers University Summary: Scientists have discovered a new antibiotic effective against drug-resistant bacteria: pseudouridimycin. The new...
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What If (Almost) Every Gene Affects (Almost) Everything?
In 1999, a group of scientists scoured the genomes of around 150 pairs of siblings in an attempt to find genes that are involved in autism. They came up empty. They reasoned that this was because the...
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Today is the anniversary of the first woman in space
On June 16, 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. She orbited the Earth 48 times over a period of three days. Inspired by Yuri Gagarin who in 1961 became the...
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Video Friday: Valkyrie on Rough Terrain, Harvard Arthropods, and Flying...
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months;...
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多くの若い人より圧倒的に成長速度の速いおっさんと絶望的に遅いおっさんの違い
新しい技術が出てきたとき、大多数の若い人よりも圧倒的にスピーディーに使いこなすおっさんは珍しくない。新技術を習得する能力は、年齢よりも、「スキルを獲得するために必要なスキル」、すなわち「メタスキル」に大きく依存するからだ。...
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If you can’t explain something in simple terms, you don’t understand it
In the early 1960s, Richard Feynman gave a series of undergraduate lectures that were collected into a book called the Feynman Lectures on Physics. Absent from the book was a lecture Feynman gave on...
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An Artificial Intelligence Developed Its Own Non-Human Language
A buried line in a new Facebook report about chatbots’ conversations with one another offers a remarkable glimpse at the future of language. In the report, researchers at the Facebook Artificial...
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