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Elon Musk: regulate AI to combat 'existential threat' before it's...
Tesla and Space X chief executive Elon Musk has pushed again for the proactive regulation of artificial intelligence because “by the time we are reactive in AI regulation, it’s too late”. Speaking at...
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MIT"€™s Cheetah 3 robot is built to save lives
The latest version of MIT’s Cheetah robot made its stage debut today at TC Sessions: Robotics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It’s a familiar project to anyone who follows the industry with any sort of...
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The Hackaday Prize
The world is staring down a lot of serious problems. Fixing problems is what you do. In 2015 the Hackaday Community will focus its creative efforts on solving serious issues. It's good for the planet,...
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Is consciousness just an illusion?
In an infamous memo written in 1965, the philosopher Hubert Dreyfus stated that humans would always beat computers at chess because machines lacked intuition. A few years later, Dreyfus rather...
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Food Industry Use of Robotics to Grow Sharply
Robots are increasingly moving into the primary side of the food industry, according to Sebastien Schmitt, robotic division manager at Stäubli North America. Automation is also enjoying steady growth...
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Wisconsin’s Voter-ID Law Suppressed 200,000 Votes in 2016 (Trump Won by 22,748)
Prior to the 2016 election, Eddie Lee Holloway Jr., a 58-year-old African-American man, moved from Illinois to Wisconsin, which implemented a strict voter-ID law for the first time in 2016. He brought...
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Forget Police Sketches: Researchers Perfectly Reconstruct Faces by Reading...
Picture this: you’re sitting in a police interrogation room, struggling to describe the face of a criminal to a sketch artist. You pause, wrinkling your brow, trying to remember the distance between...
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Plotting a Moore’s Law for Flexible Electronics
Editor's Pick At a meeting in midtown Manhattan, Kris Myny picks up what looks like an ordinary paper business card and, with little fanfare, holds it to his smartphone. The details of the card appear...
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Underwater Robots Learn a New Language, JANUS
For decades, global standards defining Wi-Fi and cellular networks have allowed people to exchange data over the air. But those technologies are worthless below the waves, and until now there have been...
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What an Artificial Intelligence Researcher Fears About AI
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. As an artificial intelligence researcher, I often come across the idea that...
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Ravens are so smart it’s actually kind of disconcerting, new study finds
A flock of ravens ravaging a carcass may technically be called an unkindness, but the real unkindness is using that term. Everyone is always hating on the smarty pants, but ravens are not terrifying....
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The Future Of Artificial Intelligence: Why The Hype Has Outrun Reality
Via Knowledge@Wharton, Robots that serve dinner, self-driving cars and drone-taxis could be fun and hugely profitable. But don’t hold your breath. They are likely much further off than the hype...
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THOR Transformer Drone Hovers and Cruises With No Compromises
Wings are great for crusing over long distances and carrying heavy loads, but they aren’t that great if your aircraft needs vertical agility. Rotors, on the other hand, are great for vertical agility,...
View ArticleThe limitations of deep learning
This post is adapted from Section 2 of Chapter 9 of my book, Deep Learning with Python (Manning Publications). It is part of a series of two posts on the current limitations of deep learning, and its...
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Reach Robotics closes $7.5M Series A for its augmented reality bots
After years of research and development, Reach Robotics has closed a $7.5 million Series A, co-led by Korea Investment Partners (KiP) and IGlobe, to bring its augmented reality bots to market in a big...
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News and commentary from AUVSI/TRB Automated Vehicle Symposium 2017
by Opinions July 18, 2017 In San Francisco, I’m just back from the annual Automated Vehicle Symposium, co-hosted by the AUVSI (a commercial unmanned vehicle organization) and the Transportation...
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Japan's zero-gravity space drone sends first pictures from ISS
Japan's space agency has released the first images taken by a drone it operates on the International Space Station (ISS). The so-called Internal Ball Camera drone was sent to take pictures and video of...
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Quantum simulator with 51 qubits is largest ever
A team in the US has created a simulator with 51 quantum bits – the largest of its kind so far. Mikhail Lukin at Harvard University announced the achievement on 14 July at the International Conference...
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MegaBet: Inside MegaBot's Journey to Launch a Giant Combat Robot League
The MegaBots shop is located in an easily overlooked industrial area one exit before the bridge that takes you from the suburban East Bay into the gleam of Silicon Valley. There are no visible windows,...
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Bringing neural networks to cellphones
In recent years, the best-performing artificial-intelligence systems — in areas such as autonomous driving, speech recognition, computer vision, and automatic translation — have come courtesy of...
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