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Why Toyota Just Unveiled a Robot Baby in Aging Japan
Toyota Motor Toyota’s non-automotive venture aims to tap a demographic trend that has put Japan at the forefront of aging among the world’s industrial nations, resulting in a population contraction...
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Trump group did business with Iranian bank later linked to terror
A full version of this story was originally published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the Center for Public Integrity, non-profit, non-partisan news organizations based...
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Toyota launches 'baby' robot for companionship
A palm-sized robot that can hold conversations will go on sale in Japan next year, developer Toyota has announced. Kirobo Mini, who was 10cm (4in) high, had been designed to provide companionship, the...
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3-D printed robots with shock-absorbing skins
by CSAIL MIT Research & Innovation News October 3, 2016 Anyone who’s watched drone videos or an episode of BattleBots knows that robots can break – and often it’s because they don’t have the proper...
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Everything You’ll Find at the SuperConference
The 2016 Hackaday SuperConference is the ultimate hardware con. It will take place on November 5+6, 2016 in Pasadena, California. SuperCon is about hardware creation — everything at this conference is...
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What's Happening Now on Twitter
If it happens in the world, it happens on Twitter. Go right to the biggest stories in the world, no matter where you are. See the complete story come together through the best pictures, highlights, and...
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Synthetic biology meets bioprinting: enabling technologies for humans on Mars...
Human exploration off planet is severely limited by the cost of launching materials into space and by re-supply. Thus materials brought from Earth must be light, stable and reliable at destination....
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Daily Report: When Artificial Intelligence Goes to the Dark Side
Computers really are becoming like people: Just because they are smart doesn’t mean they won’t do awful things. As John Markoff writes, the kind of artificial intelligence that is capable of winning at...
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Democratic databases: science on GitHub
When the Ebola outbreak in West Africa picked up pace in July 2014, Caitlin Rivers started to collect data on the people affected. Rivers, then a PhD student in computational epidemiology, wanted to...
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How drones could save you from drowning
Drones could soon become a standard life-saving tool for lifeguards and rescue teams. Even just a few seconds in the water can mean the difference between life and death, and robots can fly much faster...
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What you need to know about CRISPR
Should we bring back the wooly mammoth? Or edit a human embryo? Or wipe out an entire species that we consider harmful? The genome-editing technology CRISPR has made extraordinary questions like these...
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Meet NASA's robot destined to mine Martian soil
It looks like the Curiosity rover won't be the only craft exploring Mars. NASA recently released a video of its latest Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot prototype going through its...
View ArticleABB and Microsoft partner to drive digital industrial transformation
ABB and Microsoft Corp. today announced a strategic partnership to help industrial customers create new value with digital solutions. Customers will benefit from the unique combination of the Microsoft...
View ArticleABB: Next stage of unlocking value
Shaping four focused, market-leading, entrepreneurial divisions: Shaping four focused, market-leading, entrepreneurial divisions: Electrification Products Robotics and Motion Industrial Automation...
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Autonomous Vehicles Need In-Cabin Cameras to Monitor Drivers
When Elon Musk unveiled his “Master Plan” for Tesla on the company’s blog, he argued for the electric car’s controversial Autopilot mode in stark ethical terms. It would be “morally reprehensible,” he...
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Deltu is a gaming robot with a personality
Interactive designer Alexia Léchot has built a delta robot with a ‘personality’ that interacts with humans through iPads. Deltu uses three moving arms, a couple Unity3d applications, and Arduino to...
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Robot Dance Party: Major Robotics Conference Coming to South Korea
Get ready: one of the world’s biggest robot research conferences, the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), is coming South Korea next week. The conference will be...
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An electro-mechanical drawing machine driven by music
We’ve been waiting to see what ::vtol:: (a.k.a. Dmitry Morozov) would come up with the next! The Moscow-based hacker artist has now created an electro-mechanical drawing machine. The Electropollock,...
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September fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures
September continued the big-money spree for funding robotic startups. 10 good-sized deals and three little ones. Almost $220 million (bringing the year-to-date total well over $1 billion)! Plus another...
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Simple robot roams around using just a ball motor
Robots don't have to be overly complex to perform more than basic tasks. Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created SIMbot, a human-sized cylindrical robot that gets around with only one...
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