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If There’s Life on Europa, Robots Like These Will Find It
0 The exploration of Europa begins under the ice in Antarctica. That’s where a team of researchers, led by the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), has been testing a variety of robotic subs...
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Soon, our kids will have robot babysitters
A broad coalition of actors, writers, and directors connected to the "Star Trek" universe have their names attached to an open letter urging fans of the science-fiction franchise to vote for Hillary...
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NASA’s Gecko-Inspired Robots Can Climb Pretty Much Anything
Oh, space. You’re so hard to explore. Sometimes you bombard spacecrafts with hurtling rocks and deadly cosmic rays, and other times you’re so empty you don’t give astronauts a darn thing to hold on to....
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IBM Neuromorphic chip hits DARPA milestone and has been used to implement...
IBM delivered on the DARPA SyNAPSE project with a one million neuron brain-inspired processor. The chip consumes merely 70 milliwatts, and is capable of 46 billion synaptic operations per second, per...
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Twitch to start offering a virtual currency
Video game streaming site Twitch is to introduce its own virtual "currency", says its owner Amazon Game Studios. "Stream+ is a loyalty points system where players can earn points by watching streams,"...
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GOP Blocks Probes Into Trump-Russia Ties
Russian hackers are apparently trying to mess with our elections. But congressional Republicans are crippling any investigations—while their probes of Hillary Clinton continue.Suspicion is mounting...
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Demo: The Ekso GT Robotic Exoskeleton for Parapalegics and Stroke Patients
When Kevin Oldt crashed his snowmobile in January 2001, his doctors told him that his spinal cord injury meant he’d never walk again. He was devastated. So it’s with great satisfaction that he tells me...
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Video Friday: Deep Learning for Cars, Space Invaders With Drones, and...
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;...
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How the scary potential of AI brought tech competitors together
We are racing toward a future we barely understand. Our stuff will be smart, sometimes smarter than us. Our cars will be their own backseat drivers. Our doctors will get second opinions from silicon....
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This Huge Robot Will Drive Up and Build You a House [Video]
Categories Latest Popular Editor's Picks Community Debate Central Featured Future Health Science Singularity University Tech Video Central Video Post If There’s Life on Europa, Robots Like These Will...
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Mini quadruped robot may bound its way into your heart
RoboticsAlthough people are fascinated by quadruped robots such as those made by Boston Dynamics, it's unlikely that they'll ever be able to afford such complex machines themselves. Scale things down a...
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ROSCon 2016
That’s the weekend immediately preceding IROS, which is happening in nearby Daejeon, Korea. So if you’re planning your travel to IROS, just add a couple of days to the trip so that you can join us for...
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Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life
Over the past four years, readers have doubtlessly noticed quantum leaps in the quality of a wide range of everyday technologies. Most obviously, the speech-recognition functions on our smartphones...
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The future of robots: singing lullabies, testing motorcycles
Industrial robots have assembled cars and other machinery for decades, but a conference in San Jose this week showcased robots that are creeping into other segments of business and society. At the...
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A haptic glove so precise a surgeon could use it for training in virtual reality
Using this exoskeleton in a virtual environment, a baseball feels firm, and an egg light and fragile. by Simon Parkin September 30, 2016 The Dexmo glove, with its gleaming white carapace and jet-black...
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Us Navy Is Sponsoring Fish Robot Project To Help Develop Underwater Vehicles
Could studying the locomotion of fish be the key to developing more versatile underwater vehicles and robotics systems? The U.S. Navy appears to think so -- based on the fact that its Office of Naval...
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Replicable and measureable robotics research: Back to the basics of the...
by Fabio Bonsignorio Articles September 30, 2016 In general, as any robotics and/or AI PhD student knows very well, replicating the research results of other labs is quite difficult. The information...
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Kobi wins Siemens Pitchfire at RoboBusiness
The Kobi Company walked away with the $5000 check from Siemens’ next47 at the Silicon Valley Robotics Pitchfire at RoboBusiness for their 3 in one snow blower, leaf muncher and lawn mower. Another...
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Two Arduinos Become One
Arduino, the world’s leading open-source ecosystem for Educators, Makers and IoT developers of all ages, today announced that Arduino LLC (aka Arduino.cc) and Arduino srl (aka Arduino.org) have settled...
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Arduino.cc and Arduino.org Reconcile with Settlement Agreement, Become One...
Over the past couple years, one of the bigger stories in the maker movement has been the splintering of the Arduino brand into two competing groups trying to use the same name. The story has many...
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