How we’re solving the LIDAR problem
Sensors are a critical enabler for deploying self-driving cars at scale, and LIDARs (sensors that use laser light to measure the distance to objects) are currently the bottleneck. Existing commercially...
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Five months before unveiling his tax plan, President Trump claimed that it “is the biggest tax cut in history. This is bigger than Reagan. … This is actually bigger than Reagan tax cuts.” We warned...
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Canadians are working to get the world robot ready: Don Pittis
Sorry, science fiction fans. The replicants that do the dirty work in the new Blade Runner movie are not likely to be ready by 2049. But two Canadian women are world leaders in laying the groundwork....
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25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2017
by Views October 10, 2017 Ada Lovelace Day on October 10 2017 is a day to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and there was no shortage of women to feature on Robohub’s annual Ada...
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This Tiny Country Feeds the World
This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a potato field near the Netherlands’ border with Belgium, Dutch farmer Jacob van den Borne is seated in the cabin of...
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Could We Build a Blade Runner-Style 'Replicant'?
The new Blade Runner sequel will return us to a world where sophisticated androids made with organic body parts can match the strength and emotions of their human creators. As someone who builds...
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Mental health in the workplace
Work is good for mental health but a negative working environment can lead to physical and mental health problems. Depression and anxiety have a significant economic impact; the estimated cost to the...
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Computer virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet
A computer virus has infected the cockpits of America’s Predator and Reaper drones, logging pilots’ every keystroke as they remotely fly missions over Afghanistan and other war zones. The virus, first...
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How Technology Is Transforming the Way We Teach and Learn
Our education system is in need of reform. Most students are not taught to be self-motivated lifelong learners, nor do they come out of the school system with the skills, mindsets, and values required...
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The female code-breakers who were left out of history books
Over the last 100 years, women have had significant, high-level roles in breaking secret codes – from Nazi ciphers to the secret messages of Al Capone’s gang – but their contribution is only just...
View ArticleThe Rock Test: A Hack for Men Who Don’t Want To Be Accused of Sexual Harassment
Are you a man confused on how to treat the women you work with? Do you feel like if you can’t say or do *anything* you don’t know what to say or do at all? Well stress no more! This life hack will have...
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Culture Shock: Precious Microbe Collections Languish in Threatened Bio-Libraries
Freeze-dried and locked away in liquid nitrogen–filled vaults around the world are hundreds of thousands of microbial cultures. In the U.S. these living libraries include 91,000 bacterial and fungal...
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Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to celebrate and encourage women in the fields of science and technology. The day is named after Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace, born Byron. (You can see...
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An Arduino Mouse Wiggler!
If, for whatever reason, you need your computer to stay awake without changing its settings, that’s easy—just remember to shake your mouse back and forth intermittently! If remembering to do that over...
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ROSCon 2017
News The Program has been published. Registration is open: That’s the Thursday and Friday immediately preceding IROS, which is happening at the same venue, the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver,...
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3D printing brain scans helps doctors with a tricky diagnosis
When there’s a problem in the brain, it pays to be precise — every millimeter counts with something like a tumor or blocked artery. But it can be extremely difficult to understand the exact shape and...
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Kurzweil Claims That the Singularity Will Happen by 2045
Ray Kurzweil, Google’s Director of Engineering, is a well-known futurist with a high-hitting track record for accurate predictions. Of his 147 predictions since the 1990s, Kurzweil claims an 86 percent...
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AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society New Orleans, USA www.aies-conference.com As AI is becoming more pervasive in our life, its impact on society is more significant and concerns and issues...
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Vintage photos taken by the EPA reveal what America looked like before...
to news reports. At the same time, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has reportedly spent much of his term meeting with executives and lobbyists from companies and industries regulated by the EPA. Many...
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Modifying Your Own Genes Is Just An Injection Away–If You’re Feeling Lucky
“What we’ve got here is some DNA, and this is a syringe,” Josiah Zayner tells a room full of synthetic biologists and other researchers. He fills the needle and plunges it into his skin. “This will...
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