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One Million Faces Challenge Even the Best Facial Recognition Algorithms
Helen of Troy may have had the face that launched a thousand ships, but even the best facial recognition algorithms may have had trouble finding her face in a crowd of one million strangers. The first...
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Video Friday: Pneumatic RoboDog, Drone Crash, and Nao With Eyebrows
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your unibrowed Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two...
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Facebook Messenger has more than 11,000 bots
Facebook just moved one step closer toward making its bot ambitions a reality. Just months after introducing the first bots for Facebook Messenger at F8, the social network now counts more than 11,000...
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Fatal Tesla Self-Driving Car Crash Reminds Us That Robots Aren't Perfect
On 7 May, a Tesla Model S was involved in a fatal accident in Florida. At the time of the accident, the vehicle was driving itself, using its Autopilot system. The system didn’t stop for a...
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Robot monkey designed to transport small packages to dense, remote areas
Our Prototypes column introduces new vehicle concepts and presents visuals from designers who illustrate the ideas. Some of them will be extensions of existing concepts, others will be new, some will...
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Beyond BB-8: How the Sphero is helping students with autism learn
It may be best known for the BB-8, but Sphero's robotic toys have uses well beyond Star Wars. Aspect Hunter School in Sydney, Australia is a school for children on the autism spectrum. The school is...
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Here are all the crazy-advanced robots built by Google's Boston Dynamics group
Boston Dynamics, a robot group born out of MIT and currently owned by Google, makes absolutely incredible robots. From giant dog robots to ones resembling humans, these are definitely the most advanced...
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This is why your fears about artificial intelligence are wrong
Artificial intelligence will take over the world! Or so we’re told by the movies. We’re all doomed to become "house cats" if the machines so desire! Or so prominent experts like Elon Musk have warned....
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ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul
A multimillion-dollar funding drive is being readied to transform arXiv, the vastly popular repository to which physicists, computer scientists and mathematicians flock to share their research...
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This Bluetooth Star Trek Communicator would impress Spock
Leave it to Star Trek to make flip phones cool again. The Star Trek: TOS Bluetooth Communicator, which went on sale Wednesday, will make you feel like Captain Kirk every time you call your friends,...
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The Next Wearable Technology Could Be Your Skin
0 Technology can be awkward. Our pockets are weighed down with ever-larger smartphones that are a pain to pull out when we’re in a rush. And attempts to make our devices more easily accessible with...
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split your party and start a new one to save Britain
Dear Mr Cameron, As you know, you are responsible for the most disastrous development in the UK’s political and economic history since 1945. Your error has been far more serious than Eden’s at Suez....
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NASA Will Pay You $1.5 Million to Build the Next Rover
In June, NASA invited a small horde of robots and their makers to Massachusetts to compete for a chance to win as much as $1.5 million. The Sample Return Robot Challenge, one of NASA's Centennial...
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BMW partners with Intel to get autonomous cars on the road by 2021
BMW has already said it wants to get autonomous cars on the road by 2021, but the automaker doesn't have all the technological know-how to make that a reality. To get there, BMW today announced a...
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A spectacular survey of the distant universe
Astronomers at The University of Nottingham have released spectacular new infrared images of the distant Universe, providing the deepest view ever obtained over a large area of sky — showing more than...
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NASA Television
The High Definition Earth Viewing (HDEV) experiment aboard the ISS was activated April 30, 2014. It is mounted on the External Payload Facility of the European Space Agency’s Columbus module. This...
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Friendly microcontrollers, legendary resources.
Get ready to fly! Follow this well-illustrated, step-by-step tutorial to build your ELEV-8 V2 Quadcopter Kit. These instructions are for assembling the Parallax ELEV-8 Quadcopter Version 2 (#80200) in...
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YuMi
The new era of robotic co-workers is here. YuMi® is the result of years of research and development, making collaboration between humans and robots a reality. But it is also much more. ABB has...
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
share this page: This visual timeline shows our evolving view of Jupiter and some of the key milestones leading up to one of the most ambitious Jupiter missions yet: Juno. + view full size image SHARE...
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What's happening in robotics? Five trends to watch
Industrial robots used to be dumb, somewhat inflexible, and mostly blind - but also fast, precise and very efficient. As the cost of components, sensors and vision systems has been dropping,...
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