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Edward Snowden’s Strangely Free Life
I, SNOWBOT For a man accused of espionage and effectively exiled in Russia, Edward Snowden is also, strangely, free. Photograph by Peter Bellamy Snowden attending a TED conference in Vancouver in 2014....
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Anki’s Cozmo robot is the real-life WALL-E we've been waiting for
While Cozmo sleeps, it snores. The small robot — shaped like a miniaturized bulldozer with a CRT monitor for a cockpit — sits in a charging dock, waiting to be awoken. Like Pixar’s adorably...
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Cozmo Is the Smartest, Cutest AI-Powered Robot You've Ever Seen
Boris Sofman taps his phone, and the robot on the conference room table in front of him wakes up. Not in that gadget-y way, like when a laptop screen turns on, though. The robot slowly raises its head...
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Google's SpotMini robot loads the dishwasher
Boston Dynamics' latest robot appears to be designed to help in the kitchen. The robotics business - which is owned by Google's parent Alphabet - has created a dog-themed machine that replaces the...
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Infographic: The Future of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Over the last 10 years, cars and flying drones have dominated the domain of autonomous vehicles. Underwater vehicles have lagged behind, despite the fact that they could open up an enormous amount of...
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Google launches Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform for teaching kids...
Google today announced Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform that allows developers, designers and educators to build physical programming experiences that can help kids (5+) learn to code. While...
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What's happening in robotics? Five trends to watch
Industrial robots used to be dumb, somewhat inflexible, and mostly blind - but also fast, precise and very efficient. As the cost of components, sensors and vision systems has been dropping,...
View ArticleSale of CadSoft
Go back Premier Farnell today announces that, together with its wholly owned subsidiary Celdis Limited, it has completed the sale of Cadsoft Computer GmbH (“Cadsoft”) and the assets used in connection...
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Anki's Cozmo: the Intelligent Robotic Toy You've Always Wanted, Maybe
Today, Anki, which made its splashy debut a few years back with their little autonomous racing cars, has announced a new robot toy called Cozmo. Cozmo is (according to Anki) “one of the most...
View ArticleNOAA Ocean Explorer: NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer: Live Stream 1 (540p)
From September 4 to October 7, 2014, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer will explore the largely unknown deep-sea ecosystems of the U.S. Atlantic coast. Our at-sea and shore-based science team will collect...
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Ethical Questions Loom Over Efforts to Make a Human Genome from Scratch
Printing genomes on demand could mean custom-built organisms, difficult ethical questions, and profits for a handful of companies. by Antonio Regalado May 25, 2016 Sponsored by The biggest beneficiary...
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Behind the Scenes at QM-2: Getting Ready to Test the World’s Largest Solid...
By Beverly Perry For two monumental minutes on June 28, the Space Launch System (SLS) solid rocket boosters — the largest ever built for flight — will fire up in an amazing display of power as...
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Google is making a toy system that teaches kids how to code
Learning to code usually involves sitting in front of a computer, memorizing commands, and carefully checking for syntax errors. But what if instead, coding was colorful, fun, and let you interact with...
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Why the World Is Better Than You Think in 10 Powerful Charts
0 When I published Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think in February 2012, I included about 80 charts in the back of the book showing very strong evidence that the world is getting better....
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The Supreme Court decision that's shaking up biotech
In biotech, your company is only as good as its intellectual property. And the Supreme Court on Monday left a whole lot of biotech entrepreneurs fearful that their inventions may not be worth all that...
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BBC’s new ‘Robot Wars’ resurrects your favorite wired warriors
Forget the disappointing refresh of Top Gear — the BBC comeback show we’re most excited about seeing cross the Atlantic is Robot Wars: the classic 1990s robot beat-em-up which took the format of...
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Artificial synapse said to rival biological synapses in energy consumption...
An artificial synapse that emulates a biological synapse while requiring less energy has been developed by Pohang University Of Science & Technology (POSTECH) researchers* in Korea. A human synapse...
View ArticleRemarks at the SASE Panel On The Moral Economy of Tech
Idle Words > Talks > The Moral Economy of Tech This is the text version of remarks I gave on June 26, 2016, at a panel on the Moral Economy of Tech at the SASE conference in Berkeley. The other...
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Scientists develop nanomachines to diagnose illness
Imagine you want to build an intricate work of architecture, like a castle. Now imagine that, once all its individual components are brought together, the castle builds itself automatically. Finally,...
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AI fighter pilot wins in combat simulation
An artificially intelligent fighter pilot system has defeated two attacking jets in a combat simulation. The AI, known as Alpha, used four virtual jets to successfully defend a coastline against two...
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