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SAM Brings Much-Needed Robotic Assistance to Senior Living Facilities
Creating a successful robot company based around providing commercial services is not easy, although as of just the last few years, advances in robotics technology has at least made it possible....
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July fundings, acquisitions and failures
Despite all the high-profile billion-dollar acquisitions, eg: ARM by SoftBank, KUKA by Midea and Uber China by Didi Chuxing, M&A are down 19% this year according to both Forbes and CB Insights....
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Silicon Valley Robotics (Mountain View, CA) - Meetup
Silicon Valley Robotics promotes the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. We are a newly formed non-profit business association (501c6).We are also one of the largest, most...
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Robots for a sustainable future
by Jibo Environment&Agriculture Opinions July 15, 2016 Climate change is one of the greatest issues facing the world today. With temperatures rising to their highest point in 4,000 years due to...
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How the DNA Revolution Is Changing Us
This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you took a glance around Anthony James’s office, it wouldn’t be hard to guess what he does for a living. The walls are...
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Meet the Bots Reporting on the Republican and Democratic Conventions
This year at the Republican and Democratic national conventions, there are new reporters on the ground. Yes, surely, there are new human journalists (including the ones I’m leading from the University...
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3-D Printing a Better Prosthetic
In 1981, Ian Gregson popped into the prosthetics shop in a Vancouver hospital to buy a new leg. The shopkeeper took various measurements, then made a plaster cast of the amputee’s residual limb to...
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Neither Trump nor Clinton is addressing the biggest challenge to jobs:...
Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both promising to bring good-paying jobs back to America, but analysts say neither of them has addressed one of the biggest challenges...
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This exceedingly creepy robot moves on its own and will haunt your dreams
In case you aren’t already terrified that the robot revolution is around the corner, the Japan Science Museum is here for you. Late last week, the museum unveiled its latest installation, a human-like...
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Theranos seeks to quell doubts with new product, scant data
PHILADELPHIA — A long-awaited scientific presentation by Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Monday amounted to a plea and a promise: Forget the past. We’ll redeem ourselves soon. Holmes declined to...
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In-car cameras let autonomous vehicles track passengers as well as pedestrians
Powerful sensors and software have made autonomous cars impressively aware of their surroundings — but it isn’t just obstacles, pedestrians, and other cars that a vehicle’s AI needs to watch out for....
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Reach in and touch objects in videos with “Interactive Dynamic Video”
We learn a lot about objects by manipulating them: poking, pushing, prodding, and then seeing how they react. We obviously can’t do that with videos — just try touching that cat video on your phone and...
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China has actually built an elevated bus that travels above car traffic
If you’ve ever been surfing through random videos on Facebook or another social media site you’ve probably seen the concept video of that Chinese train/bus hybrid thing that can travel over cars (and...
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These robot spiders offer a glimpse into the future of 'swarm construction'
Spiders are creatures capable of producing feelings of both fear and wonder. Presumably, the distinction is how far away from your house they remain. Of course, after seeing these spiders, or...
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The ROSCon 2016 organizing committee aims for ROSCon to represent the entire ROS community, which is diverse and global. In addition to promoting technology that is open source, we also strive to...
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The Perfect Storm: Open ARM + FPGA Board
Playing around with FPGAs used to be a daunting prospect. You had to fork out a hundred bucks or so for a development kit, sign the Devil’s bargain to get your hands on a toolchain, and only then can...
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The Adventures of a Blissfully Unaware Bipedal Robot at the Grassy Wave Field
Every chance we get, we post videos highlighting the adventures of MARLO, the University of Michigan’s blissfully unaware bipedal robot. MARLO is totally “blind,” without cameras, lidar, or anything...
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Battery-Free Wearable Patch Can Help Monitor Health
A battery-free electronic patch that sticks onto skin like a temporary tattoo can be powered wirelessly by smartphones to help monitor health, researchers say. A variety of wearable technology is on...
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The White House requested input on artificial intelligence, and IBM’s...
The field of artificial intelligence is so huge, and the potential applications so numerous, that it would be folly to try to explain it all in one — no, wait, IBM just did. So back in June, the White...
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One Year on Earth
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