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Whisker sensors could control the robots of the future
Rats and other whiskered animals use senses that we don’t yet possess. In addition to being able to run mazes and lick our faces to confirm we aren’t covered in BBQ sauce, scientists have confirmed...
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Do You Believe in God, or Is That a Software Glitch?
Think of the brain as a jam-packed sports arena and the voxels as all the fans. If you ask everyone in the stadium a bunch of questions, you might, by chance, see a pattern emerge, such as a cluster of...
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Robots and computers may soon know that what goes up will also, most likely,...
Machines must be able to predict how objects in the real world will behave. by Will Knight August 30, 2016 Children quickly learn to predict what will happen if they turn a cup filled with juice upside...
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Can you hear me now? 'Strong signal' from star sparks alien speculation
Very strong signal detected from star HD 164595, 94 light years away If artificial, signal could be evidence of a hugely advanced alien civilization Astronomers are training their telescopes on the...
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Building a robot to combat the invasive lionfish
by Kassie Perlongo Research & Innovation Learn August 30, 2016 Lionfish are invasive to the Atlantic Ocean and their voracious appetites are destroying coral reef ecosystems. RISE (Robots in...
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Drive.ai uses deep learning to teach self-driving cars "€“ and to give...
Startup Drive.ai is revealing its product and strategy for the first time, and the autonomous driving tech company is looking not only to create the best hardware and software to enable self-driving...
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How Driverless Cars May Interact With People
SAN FRANCISCO — There are plenty of unanswered questions about how self-driving cars would function in the real world, like understanding local driving customs and handing controls back to a human in...
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How Drive.AI plans to make self-driving cars a little less creepy
Stepping in front of a self-driving car is the automotive equivalent of a trust fall. You believe the car can see you and does not plan to run you down, but you can’t catch the eye of a driver, since...
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Robotic chemistry sets for the classroom
30 August 2016 Can chemistry education in schools benefit from the explosion of low-cost robotic devices, ask Laurie Points, Jonathan Grizou and Leroy Cronin. Could robotic chemistry sets lead to a...
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The Surprising Story of the First Microprocessors
Transistors, the electronic amplifiers and switches found at the heart of everything from pocket radios to warehouse-size supercomputers, were invented in 1947. Early devices were of a type called...
View ArticleSwarm robots can learn by simply observing
Science News from research organizations Date: Source: University of Sheffield Summary: It is now possible for machines to learn how natural or artificial systems work by simply observing them, without...
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You crawl into this 13-foot robot's chest and control it from inside
Japan is leading the way once again in making childhood dreams a reality with a human-piloted, walking robot. The Osaka-based Hajime Research Institute has built a 4-metre (13-foot) high, 300-kilogram...
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Centimeter-Level GPS Positioning For Cars
Superaccurate GPS may soon solve three robocar bugbears: bad weather, blurred lane markings, and over-the-horizon blindspots. These are things that cameras and LIDAR can’t always see through, and radar...
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Maybe Drone Privacy Shouldn't Be a Federal Case
Yesterday, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s new drone rules went into effect. While many drone enthusiasts were pleased to see some long-awaited progress on this front, the folks at the...
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Researchers Map Locations of 4,669 Servers in Netflix’s Content Delivery Network
When you open Netflix and hit “play,” your computer sends a request to the video streaming service to locate the movie you’d like to watch. The company responds with the name and location of the...
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Regulations on civilian drones in the US and Europe, what do they involve?
by Silvio Hänsenberger, Isabelle Wildhaber Aerial Opinions August 31, 2016 With new markets on the horizon, regulations governing civilian drones are currently being adapted in Europe and the US. What...
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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...
View ArticlePMI cohort will require data management on a massive scale
Print Email Reprints Share Few health data management efforts are as ambitious or challenging as the National Institutes of Health’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) Cohort Program. The landmark...
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Fuck the Banks, I'll Build My Own Damn House
Oh boy, there's a lot to say! My name is Sean, and I'm a 32 year old software developer. Most of my career has been in web development, but ever since I was a young lad slinging code in upstate New...
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Orders for Robots Hit Record in First Half of 2016
The North American automation industry has set new records to begin 2016, according to the Association for Advancing Automation. A total of 14,583 robots valued at approximately $817 million were...
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