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Coffee Hacks
Hackers need fuel to hack. In general that fuel comes in the form of food, water, and caffeine. Not necessarily in that order. While soda or energy drinks will do in a pinch, the best hackers know that...
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The legacy of Willow Garage...The “PARC” for robotics
The robotic industries have been one of the hottest topics worldwide since there has been progressing from the traditional manufacturing applications to the non-manufacturing applications such as...
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Robots are the most likely to take the jobs of those who least expect it
Low-skilled workers with lower education levels are the most likely to be replaced by robots. The same group, however, is in the greatest level of denial that robotics will take their jobs, according...
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New ROS tutorials to simulate with TIAGo easily!
Would you like to try to command a robot? Do you have in mind robotics applications but don’t have a robot? Want to try TIAGo? PAL Robotics puts an accessible tool available for anyone that wants to...
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The Tell-tale Heart: Researchers 3D Print Organ-on-a-Chip
Researchers have used a 3D printer and six novel bioinks to build a “heart-on-a-chip” that can serve as a living organ for drug testing. The device, developed by a team of bioengineers out of Harvard’s...
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Open source no longer scares the enterprise
A study by Vanson Bourne for Rackspace reports that businesses are making big savings by using open source. In the survey of 300 organisations, three out of five respondents cited cost savings as the...
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Announcing the Robot Launch Shortlist
by Andra Keay, Silicon Valley Robotics News October 27, 2016 It’s time to showcase the Robot Launch semifinalists, or ‘The Shortlist’. Every week over the next month you will meet 9-10 very interesting...
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Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race
Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That’s basically what Facebook is doing nowadays. The...
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Video Friday: Russian Android, Swarm User Interface, and Robot Drone Man
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. After two weeks of amazing videos from IROS, we’re back with our regular Video Friday edition....
View ArticleAnnouncing the Robot Launch Shortlist
It’s time to showcase the Robot Launch semifinalists, or ‘The Shortlist’. Every week over the next month you will meet 9–10 very interesting robotics and AI startups from all over the world and you...
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Breaking the Multicore Bottleneck
Researchers at North Carolina State University and at Intel have come up with a solution to one of the modern microprocessor’s most persistent problems: communication among the processor’s many cores....
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Google’s AI creates its own inhuman encryption
What happens when you tell two smart computers to talk to each other in secret and task another AI with breaking that conversation? You get one of the coolest experiments in cryptography I’ve seen in a...
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A Cigarette-Smoking Robot for Better Lung Disease Research
For the good of humanity and medical research, Harvard scientists have invented a robot that smokes cigarettes. Well, calling it a robot may be a bit of a stretch—it’s more of a lab instrument. But...
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Swarms of tiny, cute robots will one day bring you your phone, like this
Robots are taking over factories and warehouses, but their next stop might be your desktop or kitchen counter. These tiny “Zooids” work together at high speed to act as tools, display information, or...
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Maker Spotlight: Jesse Stone
Name: Jesse Stone Home: Springfield, Missouri Day Job: Lewd Linens Facebook | Website | Instagram | Etsy How’d you get started making? Growing up in a very closed off church and a family in poverty...
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Samsung Isn’t the Only One with Lithium Ion Battery Problems. Just Ask NASA
On June 14, 2016, four researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were preparing to ship a waist-high, ape-like robot named RoboSimian off-site. They had built the bot to rescue people from dangerous...
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Battery Blows Up and Destroys NASA Robot
Lithium-ion batteries going boom have been in the news a lot recently because of Samsung's exploding Galaxy Note 7. But Samsung isn't the only one with an exploding battery problem. NASA's having its...
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Neurons from stem cells replace damaged neurons, precisely rewiring into the...
Embryonic neural stem cells transplanted into damaged areas of the visual cortex of adult mice were able to differentiate into pyramidal cells, forming normal synaptic connections, responding to visual...
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Eric: The UK's first robot
Eric, the UK's first robot, was originally built in 1928. He wowed crowds across the UK, Europe and the US, but then he disappeared. Thanks to the backers of our Kickstarter campaign, we recreated Eric...
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A.I. and robots aren't gunning for your job, White House economist says
Artificial intelligence and robots aren't coming for your job anytime soon, the U.S. White House's chief economic adviser says. Some technology experts worry about the economic impact of A.I.-powered...
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