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The First Church of the Singularity: Roko’s Basilik
By Jodi Schiller For those of us working in virtual and augmented reality, our days are spent thinking of better and better ways to create more lifelike virtual worlds. It’s easy for us to believe that...
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NASA just made all the scientific research it funds available for free
NASA just made all the scientific research it funds available for free There goes our weekend. NASA just announced that any published research funded by the space agency will now be available at no...
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Sorry, driverless cars are not in your near future
It’s time for some real talk about self-driving cars: they're not coming around any time soon. You won’t find a bigger fan of the technology than me. I love robots, autonomy and artificial...
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Nasa just made all its research available online for free
Care to learn more about 400-foot tsunamis on Mars? Now you can, after Nasa announced it is making all its publicly funded research available online for free. The space agency has set up a new public...
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Human 2.0: Exoskeletons and Orthoses
interview by Audrow Nash Health & Medicine August 20, 2016 In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Hugh Herr, Director of the Biomechatronics Group at MIT. Herr talks about the accident that led to...
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5 Incredible Ways Scientists Are Merging Our Brains With Machines
0 I've been reading Ramez Naam's fantastic book "Nexus," which is set in a near-future where a powerful nano-drug allows human minds to connect together. In the story, a group of enterprising...
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This Cute Robot Is the Coolest Toy Since Furby
San Francisco A.I. startup Anki has a great reputation for making robot cars you can race with your phone. And considering all three founders got their start at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotic Institute,...
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“The strongest force propelling human progress has been the swift advance and wide diffusion of technology.” — The EconomistIn the year 1820, a person could expect to live less than 35 years, 94% of...
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Watch Segway's personal robot in action
What if you could have a personal robot helper that transforms into a self-balancing scooter? That's the appeal of the Segway robot, an adorable device which first debuted during CES. We were able to...
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NSA: ‘Can Somebody Good At Computers Help Us?’
FORT MEADE, MD—Explaining that things weren’t working right and he didn’t know why, visibly frustrated National Security Agency director Michael S. Rogers called a press conference Thursday afternoon...
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This robot can beat you at foosball
Robots. They just won't let us have anything. They're coming for our jobs. They're teaching our kids. Now, they're beating us at foosball. Researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in...
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Festo's Fantastical Flying Robots
At the USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C., Festo, a German industrial automation company, brought along some of its incredible robotic animals for a rare public display. We...
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Neuroscientists identify cortical links to adrenal medulla (mind-body...
Neuroscientists at the University of Pittsburgh have identified the neural networks that connect the cerebral cortex to the adrenal medulla — the inner part of the adrenal gland, located above each...
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Forbes Welcome
"It’s important to recognize yourself in others and be humble enough to know that everyone is living through their own revolution."
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A Robot Army To Build Solar Panels (On The Moon)
As the global headcount nears 8 billion, our thirst for kilowatts is growing by the minute. How will we keep the lights on without overheating the planet in fossil fuel exhaust? Alternative energy is...
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MIT robot helps deliver babies
Robots could eventually play integral roles in labor wards, according to findings from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Robots are currently employed in hospitals to carry...
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Why Some M&As Work Out So Well: OMRON-Adept
Some mergers and acquisitions are very beneficial to the business and technology of robotics while others are questionable or just plain strange? Amazon acquires Kiva. ABB acquires Gomtec and SVIA....
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Futurists predict whether humans could develop tender feelings for robots and...
Advances in robotics and AI are starting to gain some real momentum. In the coming decades, scientists predict robots will take over more and more jobs—including white collar ones, and gain ubiquity in...
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Interscatter communication enables first-ever implanted devices, smart...
University of Washington researchers have introduced a new way of communicating that allows devices such as brain implants, contact lenses, credit cards and smaller wearable electronics to talk to...
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Uber Debuts Its First Fleet of Driverless Cars in Pittsburgh
Near the end of 2014, Uber co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick flew to Pittsburgh on a mission: to hire dozens of the world’s experts in autonomous vehicles. The city is home to...
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