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2017/2018 FIRST Song Parody Competition
FIRST is once again challenging our Community to help us #makeitloud during the third annual #FIRSTParody competition. We can't wait to see what you come up with this year! If you participated in prior...
View ArticleTesla crushes a bunch of supercars in a drag race
No matter how hard the gas guzzlers try, they still cannot win against a Tesla in a quarter mile drag race. Need proof? Check out the latest edition of Motor Trend's World's Greatest Drag Race, which...
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Monster X-ray laser offers glimpse into nano-world (Update)
The world's most powerful X-ray laser opened Friday in Germany, promising to shed new light onto very small things by letting scientists penetrate the inner workings of atoms, viruses and chemical...
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MIT Invented A New Kind Of Robot Memory
Alexa and Siri are good for some things, but their help only goes so far. You can order a new shirt or arrange a cleaning service through them, but you can’t ask them to wash the top you wore yesterday...
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Video Friday: Agility Robotics, Pancake Robots, and Metallica's Drone Show
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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Robots 'could take 4m UK private sector jobs within 10 years'
Four million jobs in the British private sector could be replaced by robots in the next decade, according to business leaders asked about the future of automation and artificial intelligence. The...
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Automated vehicles and the role of 5G
Fully automated vehicles (AVs) — commonly known as driverless vehicles — are quickly becoming a reality. A study issued by the World Economic Forum projects 10 percent of vehicles in the U.S. will be...
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10 cool robots at this year's RoboBusiness Conference
Robotics Robots: An amazing tour through the biggest collection ever assembled
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Blueye Robotics’ Pioneer could be an awesome drone for underwater tourism
Blueye Robotics recently unveiled the Blueye Pioneer, an underwater drone that consumers can navigate to as deep as 150 meters under the ocean surface — about eight times deeper than divers can...
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Futurist Ray Kurzweil Isn't Worried About Technology Stealing Your Job
White HouseLawyer Says Jared Kushner Used His Personal Email for Some White House MessagesImmigrationPresident Trump Adds North Korea, Venezuela and Chad to New Travel...
View ArticleABB to acquire GE Industrial Solutions
Acquisition will strengthen ABB’s #2 global position in electrification Non-core GE business with significant value creation potential within ABB Expands ABB’s access to the North American market...
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Helping Teens Find Purpose: A Tool For Educators To Support Students’ Discovery
Classroom educators know better than anyone else how much of learning is built on the strength of relationships in the room. When students like and trust their teacher, they learn better. That’s why...
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Will Privacy Survive the Future?
Technological progress has radically transformed our concept of privacy. How we share information and display our identities has changed as we’ve migrated to the digital world. As the Guardian states,...
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Cuban Embassy Attacks and The Microwave Auditory Effect
If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you may have seen a series of articles coming out about US staffers in Cuba. It seems that 21 staffers have suffered a bizarre array of injuries ranging...
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Disconnected by Disaster—Photos From a Battered Puerto Rico
Five days after Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, its devastating impact is becoming clearer. Most of the U.S. territory currently has no electricity or running water, fewer than 250 of the...
View Article$200 million a year for computer science
Today, the White House announced a $200 million per year commitment to computer science education in America’s schools. Unlike similar proposals in previous years, today’s action delivers funding to...
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Jack Ma: Manufacturing won't be main driver of job creation
Quotes ... words From Pence's interview: Pence: "There was some talk two, three weeks ago by some commentators that the most powerful military on Earth doesn't have the ability to take action to defend...
View ArticleThe Empire State Relief and Recovery Effort for Puerto Rico
VolunteerWYSIWYGNew Yorkers can support the men, women and children of Puerto Rico by volunteering at, or contributing to, one of the following organizations: American Red Cross: www.redcross.org...
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A new breed of scientist, with brains of silicon
EMERYVILLE, CALIFORNIA—If this is the biology laboratory of the future, it doesn’t look so different from today’s. Scientists in white lab coats walk by with boxes of frozen tubes. The chemicals on the...
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World's first 'molecular robot' capable of building molecules
Science News from research organizations Date: Source: University of Manchester Summary: Scientists have created the world's first 'molecular robot' that is capable of performing basic tasks including...
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