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John Maeda, Why Automattic?
At some point in my career, I stopped caring about Open Source. I don’t know exactly when. But I know that when I met Matt Mullenweg just a few months ago and he told me how much he cared about Open...
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Watch This Mind-Controlled Bionic Arm Touch and Feel
Melissa Loomis, a woman from Canton, Ohio who had her arm amputated in 2015 after being attacked by a raccoon, is pushing the envelope of next generation robotic appendages. Soft-spoken and funny, she...
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Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?)
Facial recognition makes sense as a method for your computer to recognize you. After all, humans already use a powerful version of it to tell each other apart. But people can be fooled (disguises!...
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Read Nikola Tesla's Drone Patent... From 1898
Nikola Tesla, the inventor, electric car company namesake, and beloved darling of the internet, had a great many visions in his mind. Among the more obscure: a patent for killer robots. And not just...
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IKEA Lantern Houses Full-Featured Weather Station
From plain and utilitarian to the sleek and professional, there are a lot of ways to build a multifunction weather station. We’d thought we’d seen it all here, but building a weather station into an...
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Maker Spotlight: DJ Sures
Name: DJ Sures City: Calgary, Alberta, Canada Day Job: Founder & CEO of EZ-Robot Robotics DJ is not actually a DJ. He’s a roboticist from Calgary who founded the company EZ-Robot. He first wrote an...
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Did a Solar-Powered Autonomous Boat Just Cross the Pacific Ocean?
I struggle to descend the stairs leading to the sandy beach at Half Moon Bay, California, awkwardly hefting the 60-pound solar-powered boat SeaCharger atop my shoulder. Amid the numerous...
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Talk to the (animatronic) hand!
Maker Shuang Peng has created a 13 DOF animatronic hand using an Arduino Mega, seven servo motors, and six air cylinders, along with a Leap Motion sensor for control. As briefly described on his...
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5 Reasons to Start a Robotics Competition Team
You may have seen our blog post from this past Friday on how to get a robotics competition team up and running but you may still be on the fence about whether or not to start a team. Some of the...
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Building as a modular gadget
In recent years, researchers and companies have been exploring new ways to improve buildings through analytics software, prefabrication, connected devices, new materials and construction automation....
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Ready for the Internet of Robotic Things?
You've likely heard of the Internet of Things (IoT). How about the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT)? The concept, first described a few years ago in a report by ABI Research, involves the ability of...
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Of prediction and policy
FOR frazzled teachers struggling to decide what to watch on an evening off, help is at hand. An online streaming service’s software predicts what they might enjoy, based on the past choices of similar...
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NASA Funds Plan to Turn Used Rocket Fuel Tanks Into Space Habitats
NASA is very good about being on the cutting edge of space exploration, but it's less good about making non-cutting edge space exploration efficient and cost effective. The agency is acutely aware of...
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Behold the Sushi-Making Robot of the Future
Robots have already changed our relationship with food pretty drastically. From bartending to brutally butchering chicken carcasses to tasting curry and even rescuing suicidal people with delivery...
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Happy 25th birthday, Linux
Linux will turn 25 years old on August 25, the day Linus Torvalds sent out his fateful message asking for help with a new operating system. “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be...
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The Robots Are Coming. Welcome Them
Aug. 22, 2016 7:15 p.m. ET Is it time to bow to our robot overlords? Last week analysts at Morgan Stanley, using data from an Oxford University study, predicted that nearly half of U.S. jobs will be...
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Human brain, robot brawn
That’s it. The summer Olympics are over for another four years. Whether you’re in to sport or not, it’s hard to avoid getting caught up in the drama at some point or other. The Olympics are a...
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Tiny robots move like caterpillars, powered by light
What if robots could be powered by light instead of bulky battery packs or movement-limiting power cables? That's the scenario that scientists at the University of Warsaw are envisioning. Researchers...
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People will lie to robots to avoid hurting their feelings, study says
If a robot has enough human characteristics people will lie to it to save hurting its feelings, a study has shown. The study, which explored how robots can gain a human's trust even when they make...
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Parrot's Disco Drone Lets You Take to the Sky in Immersive FPV
Parrot defined the consumer quadrotor with its excellent (and affordable) AR Drone, which was first announced at CES 2010. Since then, Parrot has been expanding its quadrotor lineup, with mini...
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