Inside Silicon Valley’s Robot Pizzeria
In the back kitchen of Mountain View's newest pizzeria, Marta works tirelessly, spreading marinara sauce on uncooked pies. She doesn’t complain, takes no breaks, and has never needed a sick day. She...
View ArticleThe British are frantically Googling what the E.U. is, hours after voting to...
The whole world is reeling after a milestone referendum in Britain to leave the European Union. And although leaders of the campaign to exit Europe are crowing over their victory, it seems many Britons...
View ArticlePrestigious innovation award caps successful week for ABB at Automatica 2016
Technologies to unlock the Factory of the Future were on customers' minds at the world’s largest showcase for robotics and manufacturing automation ABB presented an entire new range of products and...
View ArticleLet's count the ways this robot is fake
Watching the promo video above, you'd think that Andbot — a vaguely anthropomorphic "robot butler" on wheels — was the second coming of RoboJesus. Burning your breakfast? Andbot will tell you. Raising...
View ArticleInside Silicon Valley’s Robot Pizzeria
In the back kitchen of Mountain View's newest pizzeria, Marta works tirelessly, spreading marinara sauce on uncooked pies. She doesn’t complain, takes no breaks, and has never needed a sick day. She...
View ArticleArduino simulator puts you in the driver’s seat of a toy car
As part of their final project at EDN – Navàs, robotics students Rafart Jordi and Marc Thomas recently built an impressive Arduino simulator that captures video from a camera-equipped RC vehicle and...
View ArticleWorried About Self-Driving Cars? Guess What—There's Something You Can Do...
For three years I’ve been writing at least once a week about self-driving cars and I’ve recently noticed a shift in popular opinion. The wide-eyed optimism of seeing Google’s cute-as-a-button robot...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence’s White Guy Problem
ACCORDING to some prominent voices in the tech world, artificial intelligence presents a looming existential threat to humanity: Warnings by luminaries like Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom about “the...
View ArticleGeorge Will says he's leaving GOP over Trump
In a speech at a Federalist Society luncheon, he told the audience, "This is not my party" Will has been a harsh critic of Trump in the past Washington (CNN)Conservative commentator and columnist...
View ArticleICRA Exhibition (Part 2 of 2)
interview by Audrow Nash, Robots Podcast Events June 25, 2016 This is the second of two episodes where Audrow Nash interviews several companies at the International Conference for Robotics and...
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View ArticleFetch Robotics CEO Melonee Wise and her band of merry robots are coming to...
Remember Rosie from the Jetsons? That’s what Fetch Robotics is building, but instead of dealing with housekeeping and Elroy, the robots are designed for warehouses and e-commerce fulfillment centers....
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence Has a ‘Sea of Dudes’ Problem
Earlier this month, Bill Gates took the stage at the Recode conference to talk about philanthropy with his wife, Melinda. They discussed mobile payments, contraception, and billionaires giving away...
View ArticleNanoscientists develop the 'ultimate discovery tool'
The discovery power of the gene chip is coming to nanotechnology. A Northwestern University research team is developing a tool to rapidly test millions and perhaps even billions or more different...
View ArticleTend.ai applies the cloud and machine learning to co-working robots
Co-working robots are the near future of work. As long as we still need humans somewhere on the factory floor, we need robots that can safely operate next to those humans. The most famous example of a...
View ArticleThere are liars and then there’s Boris Johnson and Michael Gove
Where was the champagne at the Vote Leave headquarters? The happy tears and whoops of joy? If you believed Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, the Brexit vote was a moment of national liberation, a day...
View ArticleDomgy, the robot dog that hopes to breathe new life into AI pets
Man's best friend is about to get a major upgrade—but don't expect this dog to eat your homework. Roobo, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, recently pulled back the curtain on an artificial...
View ArticleSolar plane partner sees energy reforms in U.S.
As he follows the Solar Impulse 2 on its historic flight around the world, the CEO of one of the project's partners, Ulrich Spiesshofer, draws similarities between the challenges facing the aircraft...
View ArticleCRISPR Targets Cancer in First Human Trial
0 It’s happening: as early as later this year, the gene-editing power tool CRISPR could be used in its first ever human trial. On Tuesday June 21, an advisory panel from the National Institute of...
View Article"Vance Maker" and the Joys of Making with Kids
If you are a parent, you likely have experienced the great joys of teaching your kids making. I still remember lessons I learned from my dad (how to swing a hammer, how to properly stroke a cross-cut...
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