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China's Xpider robot is inspired by the magic of Pixar films
When the robots come for our weak human flesh during the Singularity, let's hope they're at least as cute as the Xpider, a robot being developed by a small team in Beijing. The developers, who were...
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Remote-controlled robots roam the office for the ultimate in telecommuting
BELLEVUE, Wash. – In a sixth-floor executive suite here, Deepak Savadatti’s robot has its own office with a view. Savadatti himself may be sitting in front of a computer hundreds of miles away, at his...
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Apparently People Trusted This Robot
Why would they give it lips?? Apparently, in order to make a robot as expressive as possible, researchers decided to give BERT2, a robot assistant a pouty pair of lips and wide eyes with... are those...
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Robotics M&A: Acquisitions Reach New High In 2015 Boosted By Flurry Of...
In 2012, Amazon bought industrial robotics startup Kiva Systems for $775M. The following year, Google went on an acquisition spree, buying 7 robotics startups, including Boston Dynamics and Redwood...
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3D Printer Hacked to Perform Fast and Cheap DNA Sequencing
Scientists at AI Biosciences, a company out of College Station, Texas, modified a 3D printer to perform automated nucleic acid extraction and DNA amplification, the crucial steps for DNA sequencing....
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M&As that Make Sense…and Why: OMRON and Adept
FAQs and System Test Sponsored by: Add to CalendarSome mergers and acquisitions are very beneficial to the business and technology of robotics while others are questionable or just plain strange....
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'Artificial atom' created in graphene: Scientists have created tiny quantum...
Science News from research organizations Date: Source: Vienna University of Technology Summary: When they are confined to a small space, the behavior of electrons can only be explained by quantum...
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Patent Judges Should Be Scientists, Too
Aug. 22, 2016 7:17 p.m. ET Patents are the lifeblood of biotechnology, the force that motivates companies to develop innovative medical treatments and bring them to market. The trouble is that these...
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3D Demonstrators Designed for Bigger, Lighter Auto and Aerospace Parts
Stratasys will be previewing demonstrations of next-generation manufacturing technologies at IMTS 2016 as part of its SHAPING WHAT’S NEXT™ vision for manufacturing. SHAPING WHAT’S NEXT builds on...
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The Robot Economy: Interview with Alan Winfield
by SPARC Politics, Law & Society Opinions August 24, 2016 Robots and their impact on the economy is on the forefront of everyone’s mind. Will robots increase productivity and jobs, improve society,...
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People will lie to robots to avoid hurting their feelings
In the future, it's possible that robots will be able to prey on our emotions. Or at least, behave in a way that makes us sympathetic towards them. Research carried out by the University College London...
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Behold the octobot—a fully autonomous, soft-bodied robot
While the current generation of industrial robots is primarily made of metal, the research community has been getting interested in the potential for soft-bodied robots. These have a number of...
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Flying Parrot's Disco Drone: An Enormous Amount of Almost Affordable Fun
Yesterday morning, Parrot announced everything that you get with its new Disco drone, and it’s more than just the drone itself: you also get Parrot’s Skycontroller 2 and Parrot’s Cockpitglasses, which...
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R2-D2 build
Posted on Thursday, August 25th, 2016 in DIY, robotics by DP Bithead942 blogged about his R2-D2 build: To really bring R2-D2 to life, I knew I had to do some great sturff with electronics. I started...
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REC Foundation
Greenville, TX – April 20, 2015 – Over the weekend, more than 850 teams from 29 nations gathered at the Kentucky Exposition Center to compete with custom-built robots during three days of intense...
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Lovelace & Babbage
Before you can vote for cool new LEGO set ideas, or submit your own you'll need to sign in with or register for a LEGO ID: Before you can perform that action you'll need to be logged into LEGO Ideas...
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Arduino Store USA
Arduino Zero is a simple and powerful 32-bit extension of the platform established by Arduino UNO. The Zero board aims to provide creative individuals with the potential to realize truly innovative...
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Self-driving Cars: From Research to Road
interview by Audrow Nash Automotive July 9, 2016 In this episode, Audrow Nash interviews Karl Iagnemma, a Principal Research Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the CEO of...
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Having conquered Chess and Go, the robots move to master Foosball
We’ve come a long way since the days of selecting a CPU player for the other Pong paddle, tank, or hand-to-hand combatant. Now the computers are taking it to us, in meatspace, and seemingly nothing no...
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WowWee CHiP is a hyper, engaging robot pet
In the 16 years since Sony introduced AIBO, the first robotic pet, consumer robotics has not exactly flowered. AIBO was a smooth-moving, shockingly intelligent and incredibly expensive product....
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