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Tiny Humans, Tiny Tech, and the Close-up Magic of Maker Faire
I love so many facets of Maker Faire, but one of my favorite activities is seeking out the small and the often overlooked — the shy, lone presenter, the single card table with little more than a...
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Google says it is developing automated mosquito farms to battle Zika
How the search giant found itself breeding mosquitoes to try to stop the spread of the Zika virus. by Antonio Regalado October 6, 2016 At one of Alphabet’s campuses in Mountain View, California,...
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Calling All Educators: Blockly and S3 Robot Google Hangouts - Sign Up Today!
Educators! Sign up for a live tour of Scribbler 3 robot programming with our new BlocklyProp tool. Tuesday, October 18th, 12:00 PM PDT Tuesday, October 18th, 2:00 PM PDT Wednesday, October 19th, 12:00...
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This Week in Making: World Maker Faire Recaps, Halloween, and Drones
Last weekend was the World Maker Faire. This annual event held in New York is one of our biggest Maker Faires and this year did not disappoint. We covered it, and so did a lot of other people. There’s...
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Launched: A Synthetic Biology Factory for Making Weird New Organisms
Raising glasses of genetically modified beer, the synthetic biologists at Ginkgo Bioworks celebrated the launch of a new automated lab last month. By applying engineering principles to biology, and...
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These are three of the biggest problems facing today's AI
Speaking to attendees at a deep learning conference in London last month, there was one particularly noteworthy recurring theme: humility, or at least, the need for it. While companies like Google are...
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Charlie Rose interviews robot named Sophia in a report on A.I.
TV anchor Charlie Rose interviewed a robot named Sophia, during which she explained: 'I'm a complicated girl.' Complicated, indeed. Equipped with artificial skin, along with multiple cameras, a 3D...
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MakerBot Replicator Mini+ is the 3D printer you want, but it's not cheap
3D printing has not turned into the consumer revolution everyone expected. If you need proof, just look at standard-bearer MakerBot, a company conceived to bring 3D printing to the masses that is now...
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Some Tax Facts for Donald Trump
OMAHA, Neb.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Answering a question last night about his $916 million income tax loss carryforward in 1995, Donald Trump stated that “Warren Buffett took a massive deduction.” Mr. Trump...
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Cybathlon: Battle of the bionic athletes
Bionic arms, robotic legs, powered exoskeletons, brain-controlled computer interfaces and supercharged wheelchairs - all took centre stage to compete at this weekend's Cybathlon. Dubbed as the world's...
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'Robot Wars' is coming back for another season
The Robot Wars reboot, it's fair to say, went a little better than the new-look Top Gear. While Chris Evans and chums were panned by petrolheads -- leading to dismal ratings and the departure of its...
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How China's biggest search engine aims to fix a huge crisis in health care: A...
For Melody's artificial intelligence, Baidu drew on data from a number of public and private sources, including medical textbooks, medical websites — which have gathered a vast array of back and forth...
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Ada Lovelace Day: Why we're still talking about her
The discussion of women in technology goes back to before the industry existed. Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), is marked on...
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Barack Obama: America will take the giant leap to Mars
Barack Obama: Space program shows America's boundary-pushing curiosity. We do what's possible before anyone else He says next step is to reach for Mars: learn to build new habitats that can sustain...
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This Ada Lovelace Day, Don't Forget The Women You Know in STEM
Today is Ada Lovelace day, a day in which we honor women in tech. For many of us, this day ends up being a bit of a history lesson. We look back through the years and celebrate those women who have...
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Stanford's New Spiny Grippers Will Help RoboSimian Go Rock Climbing
Over a decade ago, Stanford roboticists started experimenting with ways of using arrays of very small spines to help climbing robots grip rough surfaces. These microspine grippers have been used on all...
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Launching the Women in Robotics network
Women in Robotics is a new international professional community. If you are a woman who works in robotics, or who aspires to, we are inviting you to join! Harvard Business Review cites recent studies...
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25 women in robotics you need to know about – 2016
by Andra Keay, Kassie Perlongo, Sabine Hauert, Hallie Siegel Politics, Law & Society Views October 11, 2016 In celebration of Ada Lovelace Day, we’ve compiled our fourth annual ‘25 Women in...
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The Future of Surgery Is Robotic, Data-Driven, and Artificially Intelligent
0 As far back as 3,500 years ago ancient Egyptian doctors were performing invasive surgeries. Even though our tools and knowledge have improved drastically over time, until very recently surgery was...
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Blooming Flower Lamp Will Test Your 3D Printer
[ossum] has a baby on the way. He admits that he got a bit carried away, brimming with parental excitement. What resulted is a fully articulated LED WiFi lamp that blooms and glows dramatically in the...
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