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Artificial Intelligence Experts Respond to Elon Musk's Dire Warning for U.S....
If you hadn’t heard, Elon Musk is worried about the machines. Though that may seem a quixotic stance for the head of multiple tech companies to take, it seems that his proximity to the bleeding edge of...
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Facts About Manufacturing
1 Bureau of Economic Analysis, Industry Economic Accounts (2012). 2 Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014), with estimate of total employment supported by manufacturing calculated by NAM using data from the...
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Europe’s most entrepreneurial country? Estonia (and Germany doesn’t make the...
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In the World of Tomorrow, Google Plans to Use AI to Do Everything
In Brief Google's artificial intelligence venture, DeepMind, has the potential to revolutionize the world we live in. By designing an intelligence capable of thinking for itself, Google is hoping to...
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Making the Machines that Replace Humans
MIAMISBURG, Ohio—A humanoid robot greets visitors to the Dayton-area offices of Yaskawa Motoman, a Japanese company that produces the machines being installed at thousands of factories around the...
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Giving robots a sense of touch
Eight years ago, Ted Adelson’s research group at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) unveiled a new sensor technology, called GelSight, that uses physical contact with...
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A sushi-delivering robot may soon roam the streets of Japan
Last month, Fast Company's Ruth Reader asked whether Blue Apron would even exist in five years. Perhaps we should shorten that down to two. Amazon has registered a U.S. trademark for what looks...
View ArticleGirls set AP Computer Science record…skyrocketing growth outpaces boys
Ten years ago, just 2,600 female students took the AP Computer Science Exam. Fast forward to 2017. Over 29,000 female students took an AP CS exam this year, which is more than the entire AP CS exam...
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Rovers to the Rescue: Robot Missions Tackles Trash
Everyone knows plastic trash is a problem with junk filling up landfills and scattering beaches. It’s worse because rather than dissolving completely, plastic breaks down into smaller chunks of...
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The 2017 Top Programming Languages
It’s summertime here at IEEE Spectrum, and that means it’s time for our fourth interactive ranking of the top programming languages. As with all attempts to rank the usage of different languages, we...
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AI Can Help Patients Recover Ability to Stand and Walk
Artificial intelligence software combined with a robotic harness could help spinal injury and stroke patients walk again. Clinical trials are underway. Rehabilitation programs for spinal cord injuries...
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For First Time On-Chip Nanoantennas Enable High-Bit Rate Transmission
An international team of researchers led by a group at the Australian National University (ANU) is the first to demonstrate ultra-fast transmission of information through an optical nanoantenna that...
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Trump warns Mueller against investigating his family's finances beyond Russia...
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Neuron transistor behaves like a brain neuron
(Phys.org)—Researchers have built a new type of "neuron transistor"—a transistor that behaves like a neuron in a living brain. These devices could form the building blocks of neuromorphic hardware that...
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China may match or beat America in AI
Its deep pool of data may let it lead in artificial intelligence AT THE start of this year, two straws in the wind caught the attention of those who follow the development of artificial intelligence...
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AP computer science exam takers double; here's why
Female, black and Latino student participation in Advanced Placement computer science exams has more than doubled in the past year, helped by the introduction of an AP course designed to introduce...
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Job Openings in FIRST Robotics Competition
I got a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT for this? Looking for a job that will sometimes require long hours and work on weekends? Wanting your hard work to be publicly scrutinized by...
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Afghan Girls’ Robotics Team Wins Limelight at Competition
Wai Yan Htun, 18, a member of Myanmar’s team who stopped to get the Afghans’ signatures on his shirt, said: “We love them. They’re like superheroes in this competition.” Colleen Elizabeth Johnson, 18,...
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Give robots an 'ethical black box' to track and explain decisions, say...
Robots should be fitted with an “ethical black box” to keep track of their decisions and enable them to explain their actions when accidents happen, researchers say. The need for such a safety measure...
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How to Control Those Extra Robotic Limbs You've Always Wanted
I am personally very excited to adopt a few extra robotic limbs, because I have a desperate need to improve my ski-boxing. Other people are probably interested in extra robotic limbs for less exciting...
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