How can robotics bring real innovation to the warehouse experience?
E-commerce is challenging the retail environment in many ways from fitting rooms to customer relations. Then there’s the challenges before products even hit the store, as warehouses full of goods...
View ArticleVenture capitalist Marc Andreessen explains how AI will change the world
Recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and machine learning are enabling computers to understand the world and respond intelligently to it. Google is already embracing these technologies for...
View ArticleAmazon only needs a minute of human labor to ship your next package
With 22 years of experience in e-commerce and an obsession with efficiency, Amazon has brought remarkable optimization to the warehouses where it stores, packages and ships goods. On a typical Amazon...
View ArticleReflections of an "Old" Programmer
I'm a programmer, a few months shy of his 40th birthday. It's Saturday morning, my kids are home with my wonderful wife (who is pulling my weight on the domestic front), and I'm at a tech conference....
View ArticleFacebook's standalone VR headset feels like the future
SAN JOSE, California — For as far VR has come and as good as the experiences have gotten, there still aren't many options for those who don't have a high end PC. But during the keynote at Oculus...
View ArticleOmron's table tennis robot gets machine learning smarts
Omron's table tennis robot is getting smarter. At this week's Ceatec electronics show in Japan, the company has unveiled a new version that uses machine learning to assess the strength of an opponent...
View ArticleThe race to create the holy grail of domestic robots: a laundry-folding machine
Soon, evenings and weekends spent folding laundry could be a thing of the past. Laundroid, a sleek refrigerator-sized machine developed by Japanese company Seven Dreamers, has been designed to relieve...
View ArticleWe’re marching towards a mad Brexit. Someone must speak for the 48%
Among the multiple absurdities uttered by those who demanded Britain’s departure from the European Union is the claim that, since the sky has not yet fallen in, all those gloomy warnings from the...
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View ArticleCalibrated Prosthetic Socket for 3D Printed Arms
Become a member to follow this project and don't miss any updates A 3d printed socket that will allow for on-location calibration of replacement arms. This project was created on 08/07/2015 and last...
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View ArticleFREE Social Media Management Dashboard
Sign In To The Leading Twitter/Facebook Community Manager - It's Magical!! Commun.it Is The Easiest Way to Manage Your Social Community! Better Manage Your Twitter Relationships Focus on your...
View ArticleHow IIoT Will Transform Manufacturing
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is already transforming the manufacturing industry by enabling a dramatic rise in increasingly advanced, real-time measurements yielding more and more...
View ArticleHow a programmer used AI to keep talking to her friend after his tragic death...
When the engineers had at last finished their work, Eugenia Kuyda opened a console on her laptop and began to type. “Roman,” she wrote. “This is your digital monument.” It had been three months since...
View ArticleNow Is the Time to Ban Terminator-Like Robots
0 The United States has on its Aegis-class cruisers a defense system that can track and destroy anti-ship missiles and aircraft. Israel has developed a drone, the Harpy, that can detect and...
View ArticleClosing the Loop on the Artificial Pancreas
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first “artificial pancreas” – a device to continuously monitor and adjust insulin levels for individuals age 14 and older with Type 1...
View ArticleAn up-and-coming restaurant chain is offering a glimpse into a future where...
Vincenzo is a tall, gangly robot that works in the kitchen at Zume Pizza, a Silicon Valley-based pizza startup that delivers to Mountain View, California (home of the Googleplex). From 11 a.m. to 10...
View ArticleFactory robots are about to get a lot smarter, and more self-sufficient
Fanuc, a company that produces robot arms for factories, is trying to get them to learn on the job. by Will Knight October 7, 2016 The big, dumb, monotonous industrial robots found in many factories...
View ArticleGE and Caterpillar have invested in an autonomous robot startup
This story was delivered to BI Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. The Venture Capital arms of both GE and Caterpillar recently invested in Clearpath...
View ArticleHow Transformative Tech Can Bring Out the Best in Us All
We now live in exponential times. Technological ability is accelerating. Communication is instant. Interconnection is global. Great change is coming hard and fast. To navigate these conditions, we need...
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