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World's first 'robot lawyer' overturns 160,000 parking tickets
A free online chatbot laywer has managed to overturn a staggering 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York City, saving users an estimated £2.9 million. The artificial intelligence bot was...
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Walmart and Five Elements Robotics Working on Robotic Shopping Cart
It’s been a few years since we first met Five Elements Robotics at RoboBusiness, where they introduced Budgee, a sort of robotic stuff-carrier that will follow you around with up to 22 kilograms of...
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Current Openings
In 2012 we launched the first Raspberry Pi computer. A low cost, credit-card sized computer that was developed to encourage more kids to learn how to code. Four years on, we’ve sold over seven million...
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China has an insatiable appetite for industrial robots
More than one in four industrial robot units sold worldwide last year were in China, according to a new report. With its vast manufacturing base, the country dwarfs other economies' demand for the...
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The Knowledge Jobs Most Likely to Be Automated
Which kinds of knowledge workers are at high risk of job loss thanks to smart machines? Usually we don’t love getting that question, because the answer isn’t the simple one interviewers are seeking....
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Watch This Freakishly Agile Dog-Bot Do the Dishes
Boston Dynamics, better known for the hulking robot brute known as ATLAS, has just revealed a considerably smaller creation that looks like a cross between a golden retriever and a baby giraffe. But...
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This Cute Robot Is the Coolest Toy Since Furby
San Francisco A.I. startup Anki has a great reputation for making robot cars you can race with your phone. And considering all three founders got their start at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotic Institute,...
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Robots come to each other's aid when they get the signal
Sometimes all it takes to get help from someone is to wave at them, or point. Now the same is true for robots. Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have completed work on an EU...
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Google updates Maps and Earth apps with super sharp satellite imagery
Google has updated its mapping applications with new, higher-resolution imagery from NASA's Landsat 8 satellite, the company announced today. That means Google Maps and Google Earth now contain far...
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Jibo Is Like Alexa and a Puppy Inside One Adorable Robot
If you ask, Alexa can tell you a joke and Siri will recite a haiku. Jibo will do that, and more: the new home robot can sense when you’re feeling down and try to make you smile. At 11 inches tall and...
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Microsoft’s CEO Explores How Humans and A.I. Can Solve Society’s...
Advanced machine learning, also known as artificial intelligence or just A.I., holds far greater promise than unsettling headlines about computers beating humans at games like Jeopardy!, chess,...
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A Video Sampling of National Maker Faire 2016
National Maker Faire pitched its bigtop for the second year on the University of the District of Columbia (UDC) campus last weekend as part of our nation’s Week of Making celebration. The Maker Faire...
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Meet Articoolo, the robot writer with content for brains
There is great writing. And there is content. And at this juncture in the internet’s evolution it seems very plain, Dear Online Reader, that you are mostly being served a tsunami of content —...
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella lays out 10 Laws of AI (and Human Behavior)
Taking a page from Isaac Asimov’s famous Three Laws of Robotics, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has drawn up six “musts” for the revolution in artificial intelligence that he sees coming, plus four musts...
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How Amazon Triggered a Robot Arms Race
An Amazon warehouse is a flurry of activity. Workers jog around a manmade cavern plopping items into yellow and black crates. Towering hydraulic arms lift heavy boxes toward the rafters. And an army of...
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Yesterday, with my fellow EU Commissioners, I attended the extraordinary session in the European Parliament. Some photos – particularly that of my right hand - and videos have spread on social media....
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Noble Gases Turn into a Light Up Rainbow with a Tesla Coil
Have you seen the century-old photo of Nikola Tesla wirelessly powering a light bulb? Two Colorado-based artists took this classic, mind-blowing experiment and made it Technicolor. Joe Pawelski built...
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Exoskeleton Could Quell the Tremors of Parkinson's Disease Patients at...
Parkinson’s disease brings on the shakes, and these tremors often get worse as the disease progresses. To prevent this symptom from interfering with patients’ daily lives, researchers in London have...
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The Godzilla of Solar Ovens
Constructed in 1949 in the citadel of Mont-Louis in the French Pyrenees, this double-mirror solar furnace [PDF] concentrated the sun’s rays to melt just about anything that wandered into its 3,000 °C...
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At ABB, passion begins with you
Sometimes, I think I must be a goofy person: Even after 35 years, I’m still fascinated by a device that doesn’t move. Sometimes I apologize to people that all I know is transformers, but I guarantee...
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