Advanced robot can understand how humans THINK
The latest generation of artificially intelligent robots took centre stage recently at the 2016 World Robot Conference held in the Chinese capital Beijing. But one of the stand out devices was a robot...
View ArticleLightbulb made of modified E. coli fuses biology and electronics
It could soon be possible to make a light source out of bacteria. So says a group of students from Newcastle University in the UK who are attempting to combine electronic engineering and synthetic...
View ArticleWeed Growers Are Racing to Register Their Strains on the Bitcoin Blockchain
When you walk into a dispensary in any one of the 25 states where medicinal and/or recreational marijuana is legal, you’ll likely see display cases lined with a dozen or more strains of weed. Many of...
View ArticleTeach Xemo to Move
interview by Abate De Mey Education & DIY October 30, 2016 In this episode, Abate De Mey interviews Jeff Sprenger, founder of the startup Xemory in Vermont, USA. At Xemory they are developing a...
View ArticleRobots and AI won't cost you your job anytime soon
MIT Technology Review's EmTech conference is all about looking to the future of tech and what's more futuristic than artificial intelligence? If you are up to date with the latest news on AI, or maybe...
View ArticleDonald Trump's companies destroyed or hid documents in defiance of court orders
Over the course of decades, Donald Trump’s companies have systematically destroyed or hidden thousands of emails, digital records and paper documents demanded in official proceedings, often in defiance...
View ArticleRussia admits it is preparing an army of robots and drones to fight its wars
RUSSIA is preparing an army of robots and drones to unleash on its enemies Vladimir Putin has ordered his military to modernise and create “intelligent weapons”, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister has...
View ArticleRecent advances in artificial intelligence are stunning—but they do not...
Even the simplest jobs require skills—like creative problem solving—that AI systems cannot yet perform competently. October 31, 2016 Not a day goes by when we do not hear about the threat of AI taking...
View ArticleRobot Dance: Thriller
Find out why Loading... Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Oct 31, 2016Our robots got spooky...
View Article慶應大ら、熱エンジンの効率を最大限に上げると出力がほぼゼロになることを証明 ~熱力学に新たな原理が付加
古くから推測されていた熱エンジンと効率向上と出力の大きさとの間にはトレードオフの関係があることが慶應義塾大学理工学部の齊藤圭司准教授と、東京大学大学院総合文化研究科白石直人氏、学習院大学理学部の田崎晴明教授らの研究グループによって証明された。...
View ArticlePhysicists have achieved superconductivity in a non-superconductive material
Physicists have achieved superconductivity in a non-superconductive material Whoa. For the first time, researchers have achieved superconductivity - the phenomenon of electrical conductivity with zero...
View ArticleIt's Now (Temporarily) Legal to Hack Your Own Car
You may own your car, but you don't own the software that makes it work: that still belongs to your car's manufacturer. You're allowed to use the software, but in the past, trying to alter it in any...
View ArticleAmazon Alexa is now a small home robot thanks to Omate
As Amazon's Alexa voice assistant becomes smarter each day, it's also showing up in more form factors, with the latest being a small home robot courtesy of, well, a smartwatch brand. Omate's Yumi is,...
View ArticleCubetto is now available for purchase worldwide
Our good friends over at Primo Toys have just rolled out their Montessori-approved, Arduino AtHeart coding toy for children ages 3 and up. The Cubetto Playset, which you may remember from its...
View ArticleOctober fundings, acquisitions, IPOs and failures
October fundings for robotics-related startups totaled $306.75 million bringing the year-to-date funding figure very close to $1.5 billion. For acquisitions, three of the six companies acquired...
View ArticleSoft-bodied robot EATS living matter
It may not be a living, breathing robot, but UK researchers have created something pretty close. Robotics experts has developed a soft robot capable of consuming organic material for energy,...
View ArticleRFID + Camera + Lock = Smart Mailbox
A self-locking mailbox could someday flag down delivery drones and intelligently screen your driveway for intruders. Columbus State University computer scientist Lydia Ray presented the technology,...
View ArticleRobot builds a brick wall that a human bricklayer probably couldn't
Architecture has changed because of the computer; designers can do complicated parametric forms that would have been difficult to draw by hand and impossible to build. There were a few architects who...
View ArticleNew Research Center to Explore Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
The ethics center, called the K&L Gates Endowment for Ethics and Computational Technologies, is being established at a time of growing international concern about the impact of A.I. technologies....
View ArticleWhat's Happening Now on Twitter
If it happens in the world, it happens on Twitter. Go right to the biggest stories in the world, no matter where you are. See the complete story come together through the best pictures, highlights, and...
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