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Watch: SNL’s skit of a Honda humanoid robot demo is spot on
“Saturday Night Live” aired a skit last night parodying a Honda showcase of its humanoid robots. The robots, played by actors, were obnoxious, loud, malfunctioning and demanded an untenable amount of...
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Few things are guaranteed to increase all the time: Distance between stars, Entropy in the visible universe, and Fucking business requirements. Many articles say Dont over-engineer but don’t say why or...
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The Robot Economy: Interview with Alan Manning
by SPARC Politics, Law & Society Opinions September 27, 2016 In today’s interview, we sat down with Alan Manning, Professor of Labour Economics at the London School of Economics. He is a leading...
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Industrial robots will replace manufacturing jobs
If you listen to the wrong people, the North American manufacturing industry is doomed. There is no denying that the U.S. and Canada have been losing jobs to offshore competition for almost half a...
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Writing the First Human Genome by 2026 Is Synthetic Biology's Grand Challenge
A “top secret" meeting of scientists was held at the Langone Medical Center on Halloween 2015. Their aim? To kickstart a new Human Genome Project and build a functional human genome from the base pairs...
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Your Guide to the Robot Revolution
Adorable, and also Benign Paro (2003) This therapeutic baby-seal robot makes eye contact and responds to a person’s touch and speech. Furby (1998) A hamsterlike toy robot that could gradually learn to...
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3 Gene Editing Approaches for Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a perfect candidate for gene editing. It is perhaps the best understood single-gene condition, due to a substitution of a single DNA base in the gene that encodes the beta...
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What Does It Take to Engineer a Liver?
This October, publicly traded bioprinting firm Organovo Holdings announced that it has begun work on 3D printing human liver tissue for direct human transplant. If that doesn’t make you squeal with joy...
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Development of a central nervous system axonal myelination assay for high...
Format: Abstract See comment in PubMed Commons belowBMC Neurosci. 2016 Apr 22;17:16. doi: 10.1186/s12868-016-0250-2.Lariosa-Willingham KD1,2, Rosler ES1,3, Tung JS1, Dugas JC1,4, Collins TL1,5,...
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SNL mocks malfunctioning Honda humanoid robots
Honda's humanoid robot Asimo can run, climb stairs, open bottles and serve food. But what happens if the friendly robot gets its wires crossed? In this video from the latest "Saturday Night Live," we...
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Physicists just discovered electrons behaving like light in graphene... but...
Physicists just discovered electrons behaving like light in graphene... but better Wha? Just when you thought graphene couldn't get any more awesome, physicists have for the first time spotted...
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Wikileaks: Julian Assange's internet access 'cut'
Wikileaks says an unidentified "state actor" has shut down internet access for its founder Julian Assange. The transparency activist has been claiming asylum at London's Ecuadorean embassy since 2012...
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Pittsburgh's AI Traffic Signals Will Make Driving Less Boring
Idling in rush-hour traffic can be mind numbing. It also carries other costs. Traffic congestion costs the U.S. economy $121 billion a year, mostly due to lost productivity, and produces about 25...
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How Analog and Neuromorphic Chips Will Rule the Robotic Age
This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE. When it comes to new technologies and products, we tend to...
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Silicon Valley Robotics
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Captures young curiosity by exploring real-world scientific challenges, learning teamwork, and working with motorized LEGO® elements Through exploratory research, hands-on construction, teamwork,...
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Robots 3D-printed with shock-absorber skins
MIT researchers developed a method to 3D print robots with soft, shock-absorbing materials that can be "programmed" to desired elasticity to protect bouncing bots, drones making hard landings, and...
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China has now eclipsed us in AI research
Humanity may still be years if not decades away from producing sentient artificial intelligence. But with the rise of machine-learning services in our smartphones and other devices, one type of narrow,...
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How to Use t-SNE Effectively
Step: Step A popular method for exploring high-dimensional data is something called t-SNE, introduced by van der Maaten and Hinton in 2008. The technique has become widespread in the field of machine...
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Design and Hacking Drilldown: SuperCon Badge
One can imagine a political or business conference without an interactive badge — but not a hacker conference. Does this make the case for hackers being a special breed of people, always having...
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