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Wal-Mart expands testing of robots to scan shelves
Long known for its human greeters, Wal-Mart Stores (NYSE:WMT) is now expanding the use of robots to make sure its shelves are properly stocked. The Arkansas-based retail giant disclosed yesterday plans...
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The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business
Money may not be able to buy love, but here in Japan, it can certainly buy the appearance of love—and appearance, as the dapper Ishii Yuichi insists, is everything. As a man whose business involves...
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A Clash of Cultures
There’s an Internet controversy going on between Dale Dougherty, the CEO of Maker Media and Naomi Wu (@realsexycyborg), a Chinese Maker and Internet personality. Briefly, Dale Doughtery tweeted a...
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Revealing the Subtext in DNA Sequences
Whenever the first copy of a book I’ve written arrives on my doorstep, I’m afraid to look at it. I still haven’t leafed through the 12th edition of my human genetics textbook, delivered more than a...
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Rian Johnson, Writer-Director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, to Create All-New...
For director Rian Johnson, Star Wars: The Last Jedi was just the beginning of his journey in a galaxy far, far away. Lucasfilm is excited to announce that Johnson will create a brand-new Star Wars...
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Innovative biology
The past several years have seen the rapid growth of “Do-It-Yourself” synthetic biology groups, according to the Brookings Institution's website. The Washington, D.C. based research group has reported...
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This AI startup wants to solve the hard problem of robots picking things up
If there’s one simple skill roboticists would love to steal from humans, it’s our ability to pick things up. Apples or eggs, pens or power drills; it doesn’t matter to us. Our hands are dextrous, able...
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Google's AI guru predicts humans and machines will merge within 20 years
Public perception of artificial intelligence technology, in 2017, seems to lie somewhere at the intersection of existential fear and cautious optimism. Yet there’s a growing movement of people who...
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A Tax on Robots Is a Tax on Jobs
Legendary baseball player and fractured linguist Yogi Berra is claimed to have said, “It’s deja vu all over again.” Well, when we look for the descendants of British Luddites – the early 19th century...
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The Dream of Regenerative Medicine Is Alive and Well
To Bob Hariri, the body is a machine. Hariri is a surgeon, entrepreneur, and biomedical scientist. But perhaps it’s his time flying jets that most strongly lends itself to such thinking. “I’ve been...
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Integrated circuits printed directly onto fabric for the first time
Researchers at the University of Cambridge, working with colleagues in Italy and China, have incorporated washable, stretchable, and breathable integrated electronic circuits into fabric for the first...
View ArticleNew method 3D-prints fully functional electronic circuits
Researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed a method for rapidly 3D-printing fully functional electronic circuits such as antennas, medical devices, and solar-energy-collecting...
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Watch: Ray Kurzweil Predicts When We’ll Be Able to Program Matter
Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, thinker, and futurist famous for forecasting the pace of technology and predicting the world of tomorrow. In this video, Kurzweil predicts when he thinks we’ll get...
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There's a $100 million plan to make a synthetic spinal cord to end paralysis
In Brief Hugh Herr and his colleagues at MIT's Center for Extreme Bionics want to change what it means to be disabled. As part of a $100 million, five-year project, the researchers are working on...
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2018 Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship application NOW OPEN!
In 2012, the Bart Kamen Memorial FIRST Scholarship was established, in memory of long tenured and passionate FIRST supporter, distinguished pediatric oncologist, cancer pharmacologist and devoted...
View ArticleEnhanced understanding of the microbiome is helping medicine
No guts, no glory WHEN, at the turn of the century, the first human genomes were sequenced, many biologists felt they had had delivered into their hands the keys to unlocking numerous puzzles about...
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ANYmal: A Ruggedized Quadrupedal Robot
epal- interview by Industrial-Automation November 11, 2017 In this interview, Audrow Nash interviews Marco Hutter, Assistant Professor for Robotic Systems at ETH Zürich, about a quadrupedal robot...
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[FoR&AI] The Seven Deadly Sins of Predicting the Future of AI
[An essay in my series on the Future of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.] We are surrounded by hysteria about the future of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. There is hysteria about how...
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Faster big-data analysis
We live in the age of big data, but most of that data is “sparse.” Imagine, for instance, a massive table that mapped all of Amazon’s customers against all of its products, with a “1” for each product...
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3 Dangerous Ideas From Ray Kurzweil
Recently, I interviewed my friend Ray Kurzweil at the Googleplex for a 90-minute webinar on disruptive and dangerous ideas, a prelude to my fireside chat with Ray at Abundance 360 this January. Ray is...
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