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‘Factories in space’ set the heart beating
Should humanity ever establish colonies in space, it will need the right equipment to survive away from Earth and its resources. The possibility of manufacturing beyond our planet has intrigued...
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Robots on the Rise
by Views October 20, 2017 NEDO, Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization, is a regular funder of robotic technology, has an office in Silicon Valley, and participates in...
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Andrew Ng: What AI Can and Can’t Do
Many executives ask me what artificial intelligence can do. They want to know how it will disrupt their industry and how they can use it to reinvent their own companies. But lately the media has...
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Google DeepMind: AI becomes more alien
Google's DeepMind says it has made another big advance in artificial intelligence by getting a machine to master the Chinese game of Go without help from human players. The AlphaGo program, devised by...
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A giant insect ecosystem is collapsing due to humans. It's a catastrophe
Thirty-five years ago an American biologist Terry Erwin conducted an experiment to count insect species. Using an insecticide “fog”, he managed to extract all the small living things in the canopies of...
View Article5-Hour Rule: If you’re not spending 5 hours per week learning, you’re being...
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none. Zero.” — Charlie Munger, Self-made billionaire & Warren Buffett’s longtime...
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Carnegie Mellon Solves 12-Year-Old DARPA Grand Challenge Mystery
Carnegie Mellon's Red Team went into the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge as the favorite to win. They'd led the pack in the 2004 event, and had been successfully running their two heavily modified...
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Engineering meets life sciences in synthetic biology
Synthetic biology aims to make biology easier to engineer. The field encompasses “the design and construction of new biological parts, devices and systems and the re-design of existing, natural...
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Too much information? The data-driven future of health
THE AGE of bioinformation did not arrive quietly. Advances in data sciences and life sciences deep in university laboratories and corporate R&D departments were accompanied by profound changes in...
View ArticleIt's time for a new C-Suite position: Chief AI Officer
AI is spreading to the enterprise at a phenomenal rate. According to a global survey of 260 large organizations conducted by market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Teradata, a data and...
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Why Peak Globalization Is the Path to a Sustainable World Economy
At some point in the future—and in some ways we are already seeing this—the amount of physical stuff moving around the world will peak and begin to decline. By “stuff,” I am referring to liquid fuels,...
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Liquid metal brings soft robotics a step closer
Scientists have invented a way to morph liquid metal into physical shapes. Researchers at the University of Sussex and Swansea University have applied electrical charges to manipulate liquid metal into...
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Finding the Telos of Technology
BY: There's a principle for evaluating new technology that receives less attention than it deserves. The principle might be phrased this way: The flagship is not the fleet. Which is to say, the best...
View ArticleYou can build your very own robots by learning the Arduino platform
Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission. Today's aspiring robot inventors have an advantage over droid-loving Anakin Skywalker and it comes...
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In our focus on the digital, have we lost our sense of what being human means?
Three decades ago I left Australia to study anthropology in America. That journey took me to the heart of Silicon Valley. My job was to put people back into the process by which technology is made....
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Workplace robots have had little impact on jobs in Germany
Robots might not be stealing our jobs after all – at least, not if you’re German. An analysis of more than 20 years of labour automation in Germany found no evidence that robots caused job losses in...
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Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks debunks AI hype seven ways
Joost Swarte by Rodney Brooks October 6, 2017 We are surrounded by hysteria about the future of artificial intelligence and robotics—hysteria about how powerful they will become, how quickly, and what...
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This ex-Googler is bringing self-driving excavators to construction sites
Bass knows the construction industry well from his 24 years at Autodesk, whose AutoCAD software is used by architects and engineers. He was impressed with the retrofitting technology and with the idea...
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Adidas is using robots to produce small-batch, local-market shoes
Shoemaker Adidas just rolled out the first of six local-market running shoes made in its so-called "Speedfactory" in Germany. The running shoe is designed for Londoners, and will be followed by five...
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