NVIDIA, Baidu Announce Partnership to Accelerate AI
SAN JOSE, CA - NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Baidu today announced a broad partnership to bring the world's leading artificial intelligence technology to cloud computing, self-driving vehicles and AI home...
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EU Developing Robot Badgers for Underground Excavation
These days, you can find capable and confident robots driving, flying, swimming, diving, out in space, and even boring through ice. What we haven’t seen a lot of are robots designed to dig underground....
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China’s e-commerce dynamo JD makes deliveries via mobile robots
by Consumer-Household Views July 5, 2017 China’s second-biggest e-commerce company, JD.com (Alibaba is first), is testing mobile robots to make deliveries to its customers, and imagining a future with...
View ArticleSimbe Robotics is disrupting the retail sector
Robots in the retail sector are starting to get industry recognition. The National Retail Federation named Simbe CEO Brad Bogolea a “Disruptor” on The List of People Shaping Retail’s Future for 2017....
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Multiple US Senators issue drone act to keep country competitive
U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., John Hoeven, R-N.D., Catherine Cortez Masto, D-NV, and Dean Heller, R-NV, introduced bipartisan legislation designed to advance the development of unmanned aircraft...
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Build4Scale with the Department of Energy
The Gate510View mapWe are pleased to announce a collaborative event with the Dept. of Energy focused on market feasibility and manufacturing. The Dept. of Energy is launching a new program, Build 4...
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Abundant Robotics aims to upset the apple cart
Each year, on average, there are 240 million bushels of apples in the U.S. that need to be picked. Backed by a $10 million investment from Google Ventures, Yamaha Motor Company, and others, Abundant...
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China's e-commerce dynamo JD makes deliveries via mobile robots
China’s second-biggest e-commerce company, JD.com (Alibaba is first), is testing mobile robots to make deliveries to its customers and imagining a future of a fully unmanned logistics system. Story...
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3D Electronic Nose Demostrates Advantages of Carbon Nanotubes
You’d think computers spend most of their time and energy doing, well, computation. But that’s not the case: about 90 percent of a computer’s execution time and electrical energy is spent transferring...
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What Happens When Carpooling Laws Suddenly Change? Chaos!
A natural experiment is what social scientists settle for when people, as is their tendency, fail to volunteer as guinea pigs. And one heck of a natural experiment happened recently in Jakarta, where...
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AI, people, and society
In an essay about his science fiction, Isaac Asimov reflected that “it became very common…to picture robots as dangerous devices that invariably destroyed their creators.” He rejected this view and...
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Roomba Inventor Joe Jones on His New Weed-Killing Robot, and What's So Hard...
iRobot’s Roomba robotic vacuum is, arguably, the most successful robot ever made. Over 10 million of them are cleaning floors all over the planet, and they’re doing so reliably and affordably and...
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Video Friday: DARPA's LUKE Arm, Human Support Robot, and Starting a Robotics...
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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Arduino Enigma Machine Simulator
Become a member to follow this project and don't miss any updates An Enigma Machine Simulator was created with an Arduino UNO and a Touchscreen LCD. Simulates Enigma I, M3, M4, the Plugboard and Uhr...
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These are the 22 best universities in emerging economies
While universities in the US and Europe have a strong grip on global rankings, they will do well to avoid becoming complacent. Universities in India, Russia and especially China are making big strides...
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Shut 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...
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My own private basic income
I have a private basic income – a small, regular cash income without means test or work requirement. It’s probably large enough to meet my basic needs. And I got it thanks to privilege, nepotism, and...
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Storytelling Online Course
$ 399.00 Course Description: Storytelling for Influence will help you create impact inside your organization. Whether you need someone to back your organization, invest in your idea, or get excited...
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Carbon nanotubes found safe for reconnecting damaged neurons
Multiwall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) could safely help repair damaged connections between neurons by serving as supporting scaffolds for growth or as connections between neurons. That’s the conclusion...
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Algorithm spots dodgy hearts better than an expert doctor
by Will Knight July 7, 2017 It might not be long before algorithms routinely save lives—as long as doctors are willing to put ever more trust in machines. Recommended for You The Self-Driving Project...
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