Walmart's robotics partner just raised $17.5 million to fund more store...
Get ready to see more robots cruising the aisles at stores. Bossa Nova Robotics just raised $17.5 million to help it build out its line of inventory-scanning retail robots. The funding round comes...
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The firm that can 3D print human body parts
Erik Gatenholm grins widely as he presses the start button on a 3D printer, instructing it to print a life-size human nose. It sparks a frenzied 30-minute burst of energy from the printer, as its thin...
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UK Biobank supercharges medicine with gene data on 500,000 Brits
by Antonio Regalado November 15, 2017 The long-anticipated release of genetic and health data on 500,000 British people last summer by a public consortium in the U.K. is generating a shock wave of...
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Elon Musk: The Architect of Tomorrow
It's mid-afternoon on a Friday at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and three of Elon Musk's children are gathered around him – one of his triplets, both of his twins. Musk is wearing a...
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Regeneron Genetics Center Surpasses 250K Exomes Sequenced, and Ramping Up
More » November 15, 2017 The Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) has surpassed 250,000 exomes sequenced since its creation three years ago—with a vision of sequencing up to double that number. RGC, a...
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TechShop Closes Doors, Files Bankruptcy
This morning we received word from Dan Woods, CEO of TechShop, that they are shutting down all locations effective immediately. We’ve been following the life, good times and troubles, of TechShop for...
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Biohackers are using CRISPR on their DNA and we can’t stop it
GENE editing is entering the mainstream. CRISPR, a cheap and easy technique for making precise changes to DNA, has got researchers around the world racing to trial its use in treating a host of human...
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TechShop shuts down all U.S. locations, declares bankruptcy
A bit of sad news for the maker community today: TechShop is shutting down nationwide. Founded in 2006, TechShop is (or, I guess, was) pretty much heaven for the adventurous do-it-yourself’er. Imagine...
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The 25 Best Inventions of 2017
To determine TIME’s annual unranked list, we consider hundreds of inventions from around from around the world. In the past, we’ve featured everything from the floating lightbulb to the desktop DNA...
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Super Low Tech Mario
Browsing around the depths of the Internet we came across a super low tech version of Super Mario from [Sata Productions]. The video presents a complete tutorial on how to make a playable, cardboard...
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Boston Dynamics’ ATLAS Robot Is Now a Backflipping Cyborg Supersoldier
10 minutes ago, I was cautiously optimistic that one day we’d live and work side-by-side with robots in perfect harmony. Then Boston Dynamics posted a video of its ATLAS humanoid robot performing...
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No big deal, Boston Dynamics’ Atlas can perform backflips now
It’s been a while since we’ve seen any updates to the Atlas robot after Alphabet sold Boston Dynamics to SoftBank in June. After unveiling a teaser of its SpotMini robot just a few days ago, the...
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Keystone Pipeline leaks 210,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota
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Opinion
Republicans in the House of Representatives have just passed a tax bill that would devastate graduate research in the United States. Hidden in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is a repeal of Section 117(d)(5)...
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I have a handful of “magic” phrases that have made my professional career easier. Things like “you are not your code” and my preferred way to say no: “that doesn’t work for me.” These are tools in my...
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Germany has way more industrial robots than the US, but they haven’t caused...
The rise of the robots, coming first for our jobs, then maybe our lives, is a growing concern in today’s increasingly automated world. Just today (Oct. 10), the World Bank chief said the world is on a...
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Robotics expert moves entire team to University of Washington, including...
Researchers inside the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering in Seattle are developing innovative solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. But...
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