Kurzweil Says Passion Projects Are the Best Way to Learn
0 According to Ray Kurzweil, learning by doing will become the means by which the next generation of children learns to participate in the world. Technology has already revolutionized education by...
View ArticleMan vs. machine: L.A. sheriff's deputies use robot to snatch rifle from...
An hours-long standoff in the darkness of the high desert came to a novel end when Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies used a robot to stealthily snatch a rifle from an attempted murder suspect,...
View ArticleRise of the Machines at Sea: The British firm building robot boats
RotM As the pace of automation gathers speed – from the Internet of Things to factory floors – there's a lot going on quietly but efficiently in robot boats, in particular, with Portchester-based ASV...
View ArticleSequencing DNA in space
Ever since the first strands of DNA were sequenced in the 1970s, researchers understood the profound significance of analyzing genetics for a wide range of medical and biological research. DNA...
View ArticleWhat artificial intelligence will look like in 2030
by Leah Burrows, Harvard SEAS Politics, Law & Society Opinions September 16, 2016 Artificial intelligence (AI) has already transformed our lives — from the autonomous cars on the roads to the...
View ArticleResistance in Motion: What You Should Know About Variable Resistors
Adjusting the volume dial on a sound system, sensing your finger position on a touch screen, and knowing when someone’s in the car are just a few examples of where you encounter variable resistors in...
View ArticleAutonomous Vehicle Competition at SparkFun Electronics
The SparkFun Autonomous vehicle competition is an annual race between home-made autonomous vehicles. If you're a robot builder, be sure to read up on the rules and enter your robot.
View ArticleSilicon Valley Robotics (Mountain View, CA) - Meetup
Silicon Valley Robotics promotes the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. We are a newly formed non-profit business association (501c6).We are also one of the largest, most...
View ArticlePutting Humans in Stasis is the Best Way of Getting Us to Mars
Humans are not designed for long-distance travel, which makes the roughly 55 million-kilometer trip to Mars a real hassle. It's hard enough keeping a few of us fleshy weaklings alive next door in low...
View ArticleMuseum of Modern Art
3,536 exhibitions online Opening date November 7–December 7, 1929 December 12, 1929–January 12, 1930 January 19–March 2, 1930 March 12–April 2, 1930 April 11–27, 1930 April 11–27, 1930 May 6–June 4,...
View ArticleTeen Creates App So Bullied Kids Never Have To Eat Alone
You're at a cafeteria, you've got your lunch ... and then you just don't know where to sit. You don't want to sit alone, but you also don't know who would be friendly and let you sit with them....
View ArticleWalmart Patents Robot Carts For Better Shopping
A shopping cart is mostly empty space. At the end of a shopping run, when the cart is brimming with groceries and goods, it becomes fully useful, but it isn’t until that point, and once it’s full, it...
View ArticleToyota Alliance with Robotics Foundation Behind Automaker’s Transition to...
Toyota’s research arm has forged an alliance with a robotics foundation to support both open source and proprietary tools to be used in the automaker’s robotics and automated vehicle initiatives....
View ArticleA police robot disarmed a violent suspect in Los Angeles County
Last week, on September 8th, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's department successfully used a remote-controlled bomb squad robot to snatch a rifle out from under an armed and violent suspect. The...
View ArticleDid Russian police arrest a robot?
It's a slow Friday afternoon, with not much tech news aside from Apple's iPhone 7 launch and an interesting freedom of information lawsuit. But then, surprise! There's a headline on Facebook that a...
View ArticleVideo Friday: Faceless Humanoid, Robot Inside Eyeball, and Marc Raibert on...
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months;...
View ArticleHow to live with robots
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View ArticleIn the Land of the Robot, Androids Are on the March
Meet Chihira Junco, a tourist greeter at a shopping mall in Tokyo. In her crisp blue button-down shirt, white blazer and pinstripe skirt, she stands in sensible pumps behind a counter in Aqua City...
View ArticleIt’s Not Creepy, It’s the Future
Your next financial adviser might be a centaur — not half-human, half-horse, but half-human, half-machine. You might have heard of centaurs in chess, where a person and a computer form a team that...
View ArticleFunctional areas where machine learning is applied first
The future of business process improvement is on making them intelligent. Machine learning is the driving force.Machine learning is on a steep adoption curve and making its inroads in our daily lives...
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