Anki's Code Lab Brings Sophisticated Graphical Programming to Cozmo Robot
When Anki introduced Cozmo almost exactly one year ago, we started off with a bit of skepticism, and a feeling that Anki was going slightly overboard with the kinds of promises that it was making for...
View ArticleTeaching robots right from wrong
More than 400 years ago, according to legend, a rabbi knelt by the banks of the Vltava river in what is now known as the Czech Republic. He pulled handfuls of clay out of the water and carefully patted...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWhat Travis Kalanick could have learned from the woman running China’s Uber
Jean Liu is president of Didi Chuxing, the ride-sharing behemoth that dominates China’s market. Her dealmaking acumen and collaborative approach to competition is also the antithesis of former Uber CEO...
View ArticleShut Up About the Batteries: The Key to a Better Electric Car Is a Lighter Motor
Editor's Pick During the first decade of the 1900s, 38 percent of all cars in the United States ran on electricity, a share that declined to practically zero as the internal combustion engine rose to...
View ArticleHow to Select the Best Collaborative Robot
Trying to design a robotic application where the operator and robot need to work in the same space? The top 2 decisions when selecting the best collaborative robot are: How closely do the operator and...
View ArticleKellyanne Conway: Those on Medicaid who will lose health insurance can always...
On Sunday, while discussing the Senate's proposal to replace and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA, or "Obamacare"), White House counselor Kellyanne Conway told ABC's "The Week" that the people on...
View ArticleMIT professor: Why we shouldn’t be afraid of robots taking our jobs
Erik Brynjolfsson, the director of the MIT Center for Digital Business, explains how robots will enhance our future economy. They will not be taking our jobs, but instead helping to create new ones....
View ArticleOscar Mayer Made a Drone to Rain Hot Dogs Down on Humanity
As is currently en vogue for any company making a product that ends up in consumers’ hands, Oscar Mayer is expanding its Weinermobile fleet with a phallic flying drone that can (supposedly) drop a...
View ArticleThe robot that can pick up virtually any object
Media player Media playback is unsupported on your device Video Scientists at the University of California Berkeley have created a robot that has learnt to pick up virtually any object. The way the...
View ArticleDrive.ai raises $50M for retrofit kits to bring self-driving to existing fleets
Self-driving technology startup Drive.ai has raised a $50 million Series B funding round, led by NEA and with participation from GGV and previous investors, including Series A lead Northern Light. The...
View ArticleWant to Make Sure Your Teen Doesn't Exceed the Speed Limit? Tell Your Car to...
I’m sitting in a rented Ford Transit van driving down El Camino Real in Palo Alto. The driver, Marco Della Torre, suddenly floors the gas pedal. And nothing happens—the car just keeps smoothly rolling...
View ArticleWhy Do We Need Robots ?
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View ArticleMeet the Authors of a Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the...
Editor's Pick The spirit of Claude Shannon looms large over IEEE Spectrum, and indeed the entire modern world. His 1937 demonstration that Boolean logic and algebra could be implemented using electric...
View ArticleUC Berkeley Releases Massive Dex-Net 2.0 Dataset
Picking things up is such a fundamental skill for robots, and robots have been picking up things for such a long time, that it’s sometimes difficult to understand how challenging grasping still is....
View ArticleChina’s Big Tech Advantage Is Speed, Not Cost
China’s not just a copycat economy anymore; it has turned into a high-speed innovator. So says Ben Joffe, general partner of HAX, a five-year-old hardware accelerator and investor. And the rest of the...
View ArticleSmart algorithm automatically adjusts exoskeletons for best walking performance
Researchers at the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a new automated feedback system for personalizing exoskeletons to achieve optimal performance. Exoskeletons...
View ArticleCollaborative robots will fuel IoT market growth in the next few years
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. Overall robotics spending will climb to $13 billion in 2025, according to a new...
View ArticleAI to Ensure Fewer UFOs
Editor's Pick Is it a bird? A plane? Or is it a remotely operated quadrotor conducting surveillance or preparing to drop a deadly payload? Human observers won’t have to guess—or keep their eyes glued...
View ArticleVaccination: The Best Return on Investment
Editor's Pick Death due to infectious diseases in infancy and childhood remains perhaps the cruelest fate in the modern world and one of the most preventable. Measures needed to minimize this untimely...
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