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Germany to require 'black box' in autonomous cars
BERLIN Germany plans new legislation to require manufacturers of cars equipped with an autopilot function to install a black box to help determine responsibility in the event of an accident, transport...
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Lawn Da Vinci is an open-source, remote-controlled lawn mower
Inspired by the one seen in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Blake Hodgson has built a remote-controlled lawn mower of his own dubbed ”Lawn Da Vinci.” The robotic machine’s frame is made from angle iron and...
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Reasons to Believe the A.I. Boom Is Real
Artificial intelligence is booming. But why now? Move over, social media and mobility: Silicon Valley has a next big thing, John Markoff writes , and it’s A.I. and robots. It is useful to think of them...
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Person walking dog encounters Boston Dynamics walking their robot
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Swiss E-Buses Charge As Fast As Lightning
People’s eyes glaze over after about one minute spent charging a battery, and that’s bad news for the guys who sell electric vehicles. So various schemes have been devised to shorten the wait. You can...
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Massage-giving robot rubs people the right way
As our population continues to get older, physiotherapists are going to be needed more than ever. It was with this in mind that Emma – or Expert Manipulative Massage Automation – was created. The...
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Build your own coin-operated Wi-Fi hotspot ticketing system
Reddit user “jeff122885” has come up with a fairly simple yet clever coin-operated ticketing system for his Wi-Fi network. The setup consists of a Ch-926 multi-coin acceptor, a MikroTik Groove, and an...
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SoftBank jumpstarts IoT by buying ARM for $32 billion
Today's announcement that SoftBank will spend $32 billion to acquire ARM Holdings means the Japanese firm is buying the most important company in the world of mobile processors for smartphones and...
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'Cyborg' robot built out of sea slug muscle and 3D printing
Watch out for our new roboslug overlords. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University have created a robot made from the muscle of a sea slug in a flexible 3D-printed polymer body. It's just under 5...
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AD9834 and the IoT beacon
Posted on Tuesday, July 19th, 2016 in RF by DP m0xpd writes: I’ve been playing with a new RF generator for the IoT beacon… Actually, I do myself a disservice, because I’ve done rather more than just...
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Wheeled Robot With Soft Rotary Motors Is 100% Squishy
There’s a reason why you don’t see rotary motors or joints in nature: at anything above the molecular scale, too much stuff has to be permanently attached to too much other stuff for any of it to be...
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Why did SoftBank buy ARM? To prepare for our robot overlords, of course
The Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank announced yesterday that it was buying the chip maker ARM for a whopping $31.4 billion in cash. There are some straightforward explanations for why this deal...
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Hackaday SuperConference: Call for Proposals
The 2016 Hackaday SuperConference is coming. Now is the time to submit your proposal for a talk or a workshop at the world’s greatest conference about hardware creation. The SuperCon is an unparalleled...
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Twitter just made it a lot easier to get verified
It will soon be a lot easier to get that coveted blue checkmark next to your name on Twitter. The company will soon have an official way for users to request a verified account via an online...
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Smart Sutures Integrate Microfluidics and Nanosensors
The role of nanomaterials in textiles has evolved from comparatively simple hydrophobic materials to the creation of textile electrodes that leverage graphene and the weaving of nanowires into t-shirts...
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Simple Beetle Robot Uses Smoking Soldering Iron
As robot projects go, [creative ideas km]’s isn’t going to impress many Hacakday readers. Still, as an art project or something to do with the kids, it might be fun. But the reason it caught our...
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Classic Circuits Are Revived as DIY Art
There are few authors whose handwriting is as well known as that of Forrest M. Mims. Many American engineers have vivid memories of his Mini-Notebooks and his larger work, Getting Started in...
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DIY Drones
Log files, Tuning, and Analysis of Log files • What are these slow loop errors? Monster X8 flying dog. Telemetry • this graph look okay? I kept getting "Weak Signal" warning Started by Roger Church in...
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Big Risks, Big Opportunities: the Intersection of Big Data and Civil Rights
Summary: Latest White House report on Big Data charts pathways for fairness and opportunity but also cautions against re-encoding bias and discrimination into algorithmic systems. Advertisements...
View ArticleABB technology improves energy efficiency in Renault-Nissan and Daimler’s new...
ABB will supply state-of-the-art, energy-efficient, low-voltage power distribution solutions to COMPAS (Cooperation Manufacturing Plant Aguascalientes), the new car manufacturing facilities of...
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