Inside the Robot-Run Genetics Lab of Tomorrow (Just Watch Your Step)
Biology, as human biologists will confess on bad days, is often just about moving tiny amounts of liquid around. This is kind of annoying if your genetic testing lab runs dozens of samples a day. But...
View ArticleExperts say restaurants of the future could be run almost entirely by robots
It must have seemed like a revolutionary idea to diners of the 1920s — people on roller skates delivering food straight to their driver's side window. Suddenly, the food that families were used to...
View ArticleDriverless tractor rolled out by Cache County robotics company
MENDON, Cache County — A Cache County company unveiled a piece of farm machinery Tuesday that could change work in the fields forever, and it is definitely not your father's tractor. Autonomous...
View ArticleVenerable brain-cancer cell line faces identity crisis
Biomedical scientists are often urged to check that their cell lines are not contaminated or mislabelled. But as a new study shows, any effort to authenticate a cell line is only as good as the...
View ArticleWhip-Tail Robot Learning to Manipulate Objects Like Indiana Jones
Robots are learning how to use tails in all sorts of different ways. U.C. Berkeley had that brilliant idea of using an active tail to control the orientation of a robot in mid air, and that basic idea...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Robotics
37.381470 -121.958351 Bring your bots! Toyota is bringing their humanoid HSR to show'n'tell. Missed Burning Man? Bots&Buddies is here :) Make it easy to find other 'Botsers' by bringing a robot,...
View ArticleDeals To Robotics Startups See An Uptick As One Company Joins The Unicorn Club
After a dramatic leap in deal activity of 156% in Q1’15 and another run-up to record-high deals the following quarter, robotics deal activity has slowed down in subsequent quarters. That said, 6 of the...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence will upend a lot, but you can stop worrying about...
Artificial intelligence will transform just about everything, but technologists should stop fretting that it’s going to destroy the world like Skynet. by Will Knight September 1, 2016 The odds that...
View ArticleDIY Smart House 2
Days ago we share our first smart house project, Personal Voice Assistant. Here share our new smart hourse project, make a humidifier, chich can connect to the Internet so that you can control it on...
View ArticleUh-oh! Crowdfunded social robot Jibo won’t now ship internationally
Jibo, a cutesy social robot pitched to crowdfunders in mid 2014 as ‘the world’s first social robot’ but since delayed and yet to arrive in the market some nine months after its original due date, is...
View ArticleFrom Printer to Plate: How Might 3D Food Printing Transform the Grocery Store?
3D printing, where a physical object is ‘printed’ from a three-dimensional digital model, has been developing since the1980s. Over the last decade the technology has been rapidly evolving. 3D printing...
View ArticleSwitzerland enlists robots to help deliver mail
Swiss Post, the national postal service in Switzerland, will test robots next month in three cities to deliver food and medicine. The robots, which are small, six-wheeled pods, travel slowly on...
View ArticleRobots 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...
View ArticleCould artificial intelligence help humanity? Two California universities...
Call it artificial intelligence with a human touch. This week, two California universities separately announced new centers devoted to studying the ways in which AI can help humanity. USC’s Viterbi...
View ArticleMake: Education Forum @ Maker Faire
None Loading your connections... 3 of your friends are going. Share it to get more people on board! Sara Haughty San Francisco, California Luke Picard London, United Kingdom Rick Vespucio Florence,...
View ArticleHow Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence
SAN FRANCISCO — For years, science-fiction moviemakers have been making us fear the bad things that artificially intelligent machines might do to their human creators. But for the next decade or two,...
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View ArticleA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just exploded at Cape Canaveral
According to numerous eyewitness reports, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just exploded while resting on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral. This rocket was set to launch on Saturday, September 3 on a mission to...
View ArticleSpaceX's Falcon 9 explodes on Florida launch pad during rocket test
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, meant to launch a satellite this weekend, exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The explosion occurred during a static fire test of the rocket's engines, NASA...
View ArticleSpaceX rocket explodes on pad during test, reports say
A SpaceX rocket expected to carry an Israeli satellite to space on Saturday appears to have exploded on its pad during a test Thursday morning, according to on the ground reports. NASA and SpaceX have...
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