ABB appoints Guido Jouret as Chief Digital Officer
Internet of Things pioneer to drive next level of ABB’s digital solutions Zurich, Switzerland, September 5, 2016 – ABB has appointed Guido Jouret, a pioneer of the Internet of Things, as Chief Digital...
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Batch of One: How AI & Robots Will Bring Manufacturing Home to the U.S.
59943 Imagine custom shirts and shoes at mass production prices with same day delivery; imagine turbine parts produced at the airport where and when they are needed; imagine a new tooth made while...
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Why An AI-Judged Beauty Contest Picked Nearly All White Winners
Beauty pageants have always been political. After all, what speaks more strongly to how we see each other than which physical traits we reward as beautiful, and which we code as ugly? It wasn’t until...
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What to Expect When the Robots Come for Our Jobs
At the end of 2014, Stanford announced it was going to play host to a 100-year-long study, proposed by computer scientist Eric Horvitz, on the effects of artificial intelligence on society and how...
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ABB Robotics
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Intel is buying the computer vision company that powers Tango and DJI’s drones
You might not have heard of Movidius — even though we said it was a chipmaker to keep your eye on back in March. It makes computer vision chips that allow devices to see and respond to the world around...
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Robot Macroeconomics: What can theory and several centuries of economic...
John Lewis. Advances in machine learning and mobile robotics mean that robots could do your job better than you. That’s led to some radical predictions of mass unemployment, much more leisure or a...
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Humanoid robots are helping travelers at a Tokyo airport
Visitors to Tokyo’s Haneda international airport this month may find themselves receiving assistance from EMIEW, a 90-cm-tall humanoid robot developed by Hitachi. Showing off its capabilities at a...
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Robot Sumo Wrestling Is Super Intense
The robotic versions of competitive sports are usually disappointing at best—but not when it comes to Sumo Wrestling. The human titans who try to slowly push each other out of a circular ring are...
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Star Trek's computer voice might be coming to Siri
In recent months, Apple has quietly touted the powers of Siri as the perfect digital assistant to help you navigate iOS. However, a tweet on Tuesday, from an official Star Trek-related account,...
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This self-driving startup wants to change the way robot cars make decisions...
From consumers to the experts, there’s still a lot of uncertainty about self-driving cars. Is the public ready for two-ton automobiles driven by software? Is Lidar — an expensive and often unwieldily...
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Carbon Nanotube Transistors Finally Outperform Silicon
Back in the 1990s, observers predicted that the single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) would be the nanomaterial that pushed silicon aside and created a post-CMOS world where Moore’s Law could continue...
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How will you make a difference?
None of us can change the entire world all by ourselves, but we can be the change we want to see. How will you make a difference? FIRST invites you to share a video telling us what you plan to do to...
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Tiny $7 IoT module packs WiFi, BLE, and sensors, runs FreeRTOS
Sep 6, 2016 — by Eric Brown — 1,235 views [Updated: 10PM] — SeeedStudio’s “ESP3212” COM taps Espressif’s IoT-focused ESP32 follow-on to the ESP8266 SoC, which uses a faster Tensilica LX6 MCU and adds...
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Mercedes backs a startup to shape the future of delivery drones
Mercedes-Benz probably isn't the first name you associate with delivery drones, but it's committing to those robotic couriers in a big way. The automaker has invested in drone logistics developer...
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Mercedes 'mothership' will transport robot workers to deliver packages
Robots need rides, too. Enter the Mercedes-Benz “Robovan.” Starship Technologies, maker of squat six-wheeled robots that deliver packages to businesses and homes, said Wednesday it is working with...
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How to Teach Computational Thinking—Stephen Wolfram Blog
Computational thinking is going to be a defining feature of the future—and it’s an incredibly important thing to be teaching to kids today. There’s always lots of discussion (and concern) about how to...
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Meet Octobot, a Breakthrough In Robotics Inspired by the Octopus (Video)
The video above from Harvard's Wyss Institute introduces the remarkable Octobot. And it's as adorable as it is squishy. Which is to say, very. But it's the squishiness that makes Octobot so remarkable....
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This is how 3-D bioprinting companies are transforming drug development
Let’s face it, cells generally like having company, forming communities with other cell types to make complete tissues. However, quite often, researchers isolate cells from their 3-D environments,...
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Double 2 Review: Trying Stuff You Maybe Shouldn't With a Telepresence Robot
At CES in January, Double Robotics announced the Double 2, a major upgrade to their super skinny telepresence platform that features better stability and turbo speed. It looked cool, but we didn’t get...
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