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Lithium battery failure wipes out DARPA robot at NASA
It's not just Samsung that has problems with combusting batteries, as NASA's office of Safety and Mission Assurance has just revealed. The body has announced that NASA centers have seen at least four...
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An adorable toy robot is teaching kids how to code
He can walk, do a funky dance, and even play soccer. Developed by the British robotics company Robotical, Marty the robot is supposed to be simple enough for children to program. Kids can write the...
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The delicate balance between brilliance, safety and arrogance
Silicon Valley and other technology centers have their share of brilliant minds. Some of them have similarly outstanding egos. A few of those have very short fuses. Such is the story of George Hotz....
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Are there secret “Westworld” robots?
The premise of HBO’s “Westworld” takes a long-standing tradition in science fiction and turns it on its head. This isn’t a case of creatures created by man acting up and threatening the earnest...
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What Drones Did for the Sky, Robot Subs Are About to Do for the Sea
The next drone revolution is happening underwater. Just as flying drones have changed from expensive specialist tools to mass-market million-sellers in a few short years, their aquatic counterparts are...
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Automated pumpkin patch to scare trick-or-treaters!
Using eight jack-o’-lanterns and an Arduino Mega, “CrankyCoder” built his own automated pumpkin patch. CrankyCoder’s favorite holiday, as well as his family’s, is Halloween. After creating a skull that...
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Smoking machine helps researchers study lung disease
It’s pretty hard to smoke at Harvard University unless you are a small rubber block full of lung cells at the Wyss Institute. Then, it’s totally OK, because it’s in the name of science. This block,...
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Oakland middle-schoolers use hip-hop to tell the story of Henrietta Lacks
Henrietta Lacks. Born 1920. Black Virginian, tobacco farmer, steel worker. Cancer patient. Poor. At Johns Hopkins, 1951, while Lacks was being treated in the “colored” ward, a doctor passed on samples...
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Why 23andme Killed Its Next Generation Gene Sequencing Project
Gene sequencing startup 23andme has abandoned plans to develop a next generation sequencing technology, CEO Anne Wojcicki said on Wednesday. The company currently offers consumers information about...
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IBM's Watson AI Recommends Same Treatment as Doctors in 99% of Cancer Cases
In Brief Watson recommended treatment plans that matched suggestions from oncologists in 99 percent of the cases it analyzed and offered options doctors missed in 30 percent of them. AI could be...
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Soon fixing your robot will be as easy as fixing your car
The Robot Operating System, better known as ROS, is an open-source operating system for robots. NASA uses it. Surgical robots are programmed with it. Industrial robots, like the kinds used to...
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A Short List of Books for Doing New Things
Andrew Ng has quite the modern resume. He founded Coursera, a wonderful website that gives anyone with Internet access the ability to take high level university courses on almost any topic. He founded...
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Root: A robot for all ages to learn coding
by Zee Dubrovsky Education & DIY Robohub Crowdfunding Partner October 31, 2016 Robohub Crowdfunding Support a Kickstarter campaign to crowdfund Root: the coding robot for all ages! Root is a robot,...
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Feds Preach Cybersecurity to Car Makers
The U.S. traffic safety agency has firmly nudged carmakers into tightening their standards for cybersecurity. And if the nudge fails, then enforceable rules will surely follow. For now, though, the...
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Robot Farmers Are Teaming Up With Drones to Conquer the Fields
Not content with automating everyday urban living, robots are now taking to the rural countryside to assist farmers with their everyday tasks. What’s more, these armies of bot companions are buddying...
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The Secret to Small Drone Obstacle Avoidance Is to Just Crash Into Stuff
Roboticists are putting a tremendous amount of time and effort into finding the right combination of sensors and algorithms that will keep their drones from smashing into things. It’s a very difficult...
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Silicon Valley Robotics
to 37.797493 -122.402702 Bonus! Kiki Jewell will be bringing her Tikitron cocktail robot to Happy Hour. A meetup for women working in robotics or who want to be. Hosted by our great mates Modbot - who...
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A Group of Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With...
The greatest miracle of the Internet is that it exists—the second greatest is that it persists. Every so often we’re reminded that bad actors wield great skill and have little conscience about the harm...
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This Huge Robot Will Drive Up and Build You a House [Video]
Categories Latest Popular Editor's Picks Community Debate Central Featured Future Health Science Singularity University Tech Video Central Video Post If There’s Life on Europa, Robots Like These Will...
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Soft Wearable Robotic Glove Made With Empathy, Science and Assistive...
FashNerd has the scoop on this soft robotic glove. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), around 15% of the world’s population are physically impaired to some degree. In order for those with...
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