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Silicon Valley Robotics
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...
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China’s bid to be a DNA superpower
Six years ago, China became the global leader in DNA sequencing — and it was all down to one company, BGI. The Shenzen-based firm had just purchased 128 of the world's fastest sequencing machines and...
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Why It’s So Difficult to Determine the Environmental Effects of Nanomaterials
Imagine your future self-driving car. You’ll get so much more work done with extra time in your commute, and without a driver, your commute will be safer. Or will it? During your first ride, you...
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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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DT10: Medicine. An installment of the Digital Trends’ weekly series that...
In the summer of 2008, I noticed a mole on my arm that seemed to be getting bigger. It was hard to tell, though. I wasn’t sure if it had actually grown — or if I was just freaking out and being a...
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Memristors Could Be a Boon to Brain-to-Prosthesis Communication
Inside the brain, many neurons fire so that the body will perform a single action. Unfortunately for amputees, this brain activity is usually for naught. But researchers have been working on improving...
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De novo assembly and phasing of a Korean human genome
Although massively parallel sequencing approaches have been widely used to study genomic variation, simple alignment of short reads to a reference genome cannot be used to investigate the full range of...
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Google wanted to sell intelligent robot arms (but didn't)
Google (and parent company Alphabet) build a lot more hardware than fancy new smartphones and AI assistants -- it's just that a lot of it doesn't make it out of the lab. Take these advanced robotic...
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A 3D-printed reimagined Game Boy prototype
With a shape reminiscent of a Game Gear, revised controls and hardware, Anthony Campusano’s rig looks extremely fun! As reported on 3DPrint.com, Campusano’s Game Boy-inspired prototype was quite the...
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MFG DAY
Gallery ACE celebrated its third MFGDAY event with more than 500 students from local middle, high, and trade schools – as well as our regional community colleges. Read More Success Stories by GOED...
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Adorable doglike robot can climb fences and open doors
The Ghost Minitaur is the latest iteration of terrifyingly cute agile legged robots. I for one welcome our doglike robot overlords. report this ad The Minitaur is joystick-controlled right out of the...
View ArticleThe Real Reason Women Quit Tech (and How to Address It)
Women are more than twice as likely to quit the tech industry as men (41% vs 17%). Why is this happening? A study of 4,000 women who had recently changed jobs found that the #1 reason women leave...
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MIT is 3D printing custom robot bumpers
Robots are many things to many people — including expensive and, shall we say, imperfect. Put those latter two together and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. But researchers at MIT are hoping to make...
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Can we open the black box of AI?
Dean Pomerleau can still remember his first tussle with the black-box problem. The year was 1991, and he was making a pioneering attempt to do something that has now become commonplace in...
View ArticleIntroducing Cartographer
From Damon Kohler, Wolfgang Hess, and Holger Rapp, Google Engineering We are happy to announce the open source release of Cartographer, a real-time SLAM library in 2D and 3D with ROS support....
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Powered arm prosthesis race at Cybathlon
by Linda Seward, NCCR Robotics Research & Innovation Articles October 7, 2016 This week, the world’s first Cybathlon will take place in Zurich, Switzerland and today we present to you the second of...
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Video Friday: One-Legged Hopper, Mini Humanoid, and Robot Heads
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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Saya: Big ambitions for Japanese 'digital daughter'
Last year a new Japanese celebrity burst onto the scene. But "Saya" was a different kind of star, because she is the product of a Tokyo computer lab. And like all "parents", her creators have big...
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Cows with human genes could quickly pump out drugs for disease outbreaks
Cattle that can crank out human antibodies are being tested as a first line of defense against infectious diseases. by Emily Mullin October 4, 2016 During the most recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa,...
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