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Edward Snowden’s New Research Aims to Keep Smartphones from Betraying Their...
In early 2012, Marie Colvin, an acclaimed international journalist from New York, entered the besieged city of Homs, Syria while reporting for London’s Sunday Times. She wrote of a difficult journey...
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Contaminated cell lines throw thousands of studies into question
If your house is infested with termites, passing it off as pest-free to buyers is a quick way to get hit with a lawsuit. But science journals face no such repercussions for marketing some decidedly...
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The Man Who Invented Intelligent Traffic Control a Century Too Early
On a cool December day in 1925, Charles Adler Jr. stood beside Falls Road, a state highway on Baltimore’s north side. He was there to test his latest invention: an electromagnetic apparatus that would...
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That Homeless Person You Just Helped Might Actually Be a Robot
This doesn’t mean you should stop being helpful or charitable to homeless people you encounter on the street—but if you see this guy, there’s something about him you should know. At a recent Maker...
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IAM Robotics Takes on Automated Warehouse Picking
There’s a small but growing handful of robotics companies trying to make it in the warehouse market with systems that work with humans on order fulfillment. Generally, we’re talking about clever...
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Where are the previous Robot Launch winners now?
by Andra Keay, Silicon Valley Robotics Business & Finance Learn July 21, 2016 Catch up with past winners: CleverPet (2015), Preemadonna/Nailbot (2015 runner-up), and Leka (2014). Will you be our...
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This biohybrid robot uses sea slug muscles to scoot around
To power a swarm of tiny robots, scientists are turning to the humble sea slug. A team of researchers at Case Western Reserve University has developed a small sea-turtle-inspired robot that moves a...
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It's No Myth: Robots and Artificial Intelligence Will Erase Jobs in Nearly...
With the unemployment rate falling to 5.3 percent, the lowest in seven years, policy makers are heaving a sigh of relief. Indeed, with the technology boom in progress, there is a lot to be optimistic...
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Rise of the Surgical Robots
Another story for a growing list of surgical robotics. Who’s the ideal surgeon? Someone savvy; someone skilled. Someone efficient and dexterous. To most people, that job description sounds like one for...
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Social robots: Programmable by everyone
Science News from research organizations Date: Source: Université du Luxembourg Summary: Social robots can be used in the educational or health system, where they would support trainers and therapists...
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Researchers create a tiny ‘Atomic’ hard drive that can store 500 terabits of...
Imagine if individual atoms could store data. Dutch researchers are working on doing just that, and can fit 500 terabits of data in a single square inch. That’s right: 500 terabits, or 62.5 terabytes,...
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Dirk, a Life-Like Homeless Robot, Is an Interesting Social Experiment
There were lots of big and amazing things at Maker Faire Nantes. Huge things that would catch your attention from across a crowd. Dirk, however, didn’t command that kind of attention. He slipped right...
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Scientists Built a Biological Computer Inside a Cell
MIT engineers have developed biological computational circuits capable of both remembering and responding to sequential input data. The group's work, which is described in this week's issue of Science,...
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Pepper gets another job
It's been a big year for the humanoid robot 'Pepper,' who recently landed a job in Pizza Hut locations in Asia, and announced a partnership with Honda's robot Asimo. Now, the ambitious bot can add life...
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Elon Musk’s OpenAI is turning warehouse bots from Fetch Robotics into home...
OpenAI is teaching warehouse robots to do your household chores. by Will Knight July 22, 2016 Inside a secretive AI nonprofit backed by Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley figures, a handful of robots...
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Tesla's Autopilot May Have Saved A Life
The driver of a Tesla reports that the Autopilot feature in his car stopped him from hitting a pedestrian last Saturday night, in Washington, D.C. The report was included in a message—with the driver’s...
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Where are the previous Robot Launch winners now? Catch up with past winners: CleverPet (2015), Preemadonna/Nailbot (2015 runner-up), and Leka (2014). Will you be our next Robot Launch winner? There’s...
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Spinphony turns cycling into music
Spinphony is a bike installation that was built in collaboration with 72andSunny‘s Google team and their Made with Code initiative, with hopes of inspiring teenage girls to take an interest in coding....
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