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Why Every Leader Needs a Healthy Obsession With Technology
This article is part of a series exploring the skills leaders must learn to make the most of rapid change in an increasingly disruptive world. The first article in the series, “How the Most Successful...
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Agenda / Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
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Robots to the rescue in post-disaster recovery
euronews, Anne Devineaux: “This disaster scene is a simulation. We’re in Italy in a fire brigade training center. Today, robots are being tested by researchers. Their mission: to help the rescuers.”...
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Drones that drive
Being able to both walk and take flight is typical in nature — many birds, insects, and other animals can do both. If we could program robots with similar versatility, it would open up many...
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bit aesthetics
One of my favorite activities in mathematics is exploring simple rules that can create complex systems. Fractals, such as those generated by Lindemayer systems (L-systems), are a great example of this....
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Hacking Touch Screens to Count Pulses
Heart rate sensors available for DIY use employ photoplethysmography which illuminates the skin and measures changes in light absorption. These sensors are cheap, however, the circuitry required to...
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Digital substation helps New York guard against storm chaos
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Five reasons to attend TC Sessions: Robotics next week at MIT
Next week TechCrunch is hosting its first ever one-day event centered around robotics. Called TC Sessions: Robotics, there are still a few general admission tickets left which grant the holder access...
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Miniaturizing the brain of a drone
In recent years, engineers have worked to shrink drone technology, building flying prototypes that are the size of a bumblebee and loaded with even tinier sensors and cameras. Thus far, they have...
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I watched two robots chat together on stage at a tech event
I got a glimpse into the future world of our robot overlords today. It was nervy at times. I watched two robots go on stage at a tech event to “debate” the future of humanity with each other. The...
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Shed Pounds and Inches while Binge Watching Netflix
Feel like breaking out of your streaming-induced vegetative state but can’t seem to break the binge-watching cycle? Maybe you’re a candidate for this exercise bike that controls how much Netflix you...
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Binge-watch and burn calories with the Arduino-powered Cycflix
As entertaining as watching Netflix may be, you’re not burning a lot of calories while binging on your favorite shows. In order to do both at the same time, hacker “Roboro” modded a stationary exercise...
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Even Ordinary Computer Users Could Access Secret Quantum Computing
You may not need a quantum computer of your own to securely use quantum computing in the future. For the first time, researchers have shown how even ordinary classical computer users could remotely...
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Be part of the e-volution
The three drivers with the most votes will each receive one five-second ‘power boost’, temporarily increasing their car’s power from 150kw (202.5bhp) to 180kw (243bhp). Votes can be cast online at...
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Biased algorithms are everywhere, and no one seems to care
by Will Knight July 12, 2017 Opaque and potentially biased mathematical models are remaking our lives—and neither the companies responsible for developing them nor the government is interested in...
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Robots and AI are going to make social inequality even worse, says new report
Most economist agree that advances in robotics and AI over the next few decades are likely to lead to significant job losses. But what’s less often considered is how these changes could also affect...
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Off the Map: The Rough Road Ahead for Self-Driving Cars in China
Updated July 13, 2017 5:59 a.m. ET China is creating roadblocks for U.S. auto makers and tech companies to bringing self-driving cars to the world’s largest auto market. Citing national security...
View ArticleCAN VENTURE CAPITAL BE SAVED?
There are plenty of creeps in VC, but the problems run far deeper The stories are vile. Women entrepreneurs face sexual advances by the VCs they rely on to get their companies off the ground. They are...
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Disney offers a first look at Star Wars land
Disney has finally given a first glimpse into its highly anticipated Star Wars lands currently being built in California and Florida, unveiling a 50-foot wide 3D model of the area that will eventually...
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Video Friday: Water Drones, Sad Robot, and Self-Driving in Duckie Town
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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