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The Neural Network Zoo
With new neural network architectures popping up every now and then, it’s hard to keep track of them all. Knowing all the abbreviations being thrown around (DCIGN, BiLSTM, DCGAN, anyone?) can be a bit...
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Teensy Projects
The Arduino has proved to be a great platform for electronics projects. The same goes for the Raspberry Pi. However, there are some projects that fall in the gap between these two options. Projects...
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Robotics Online
Font Size: A A A Robotics Industry News VIEW CATEGORIES News »More News »Back to Robotic Resources Robotic Industries Association (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) – The North American robotics market has set...
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MIT makes breakthrough in morality-proofing artificial intelligence
If the Halloween month has you feeling a bit puzzled and uncertain, maybe it’s because of the unsettling proposition that life-and-death decisions are increasingly placed in the hands of artificial...
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Omate’s Yumi robot is an Alexa-enabled tablet with wheels
We'll probably have robots in our homes one day. I don’t know if they’ll be our companions or just Roombas with animated faces, but a lot of companies seem to think they have an idea of what we want:...
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Robot surgeon can slice eyes finely enough to remove cataracts
See what it can do. A new surgical robot can make the micro-scale movements needed for a particularly delicate procedure: cataract surgery. Axsis, a system developed by Cambridge Consultants, is a...
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Intel invented a way for a single operator to fly hundreds of drones at once
Intel unveiled a tiny new drone today, the Shooting Star, designed specifically for light shows in the night sky. Weighing in at less than a pound, the small quadcopter is designed to fly in unison...
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How a robot could be grandma’s new carer
Sitting in a studio in Kensington, London, the designer Sebastian Conran walks me through a worst-case scenario. “Basically, what it’s looking for is a break in routine,” he explains, pointing to a...
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The current state of machine intelligence 3.0
Almost a year ago, we published our now-annual landscape of machine intelligence companies, and goodness have we seen a lot of activity since then. This year’s landscape has a third more companies than...
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Is it time to become exponentially human?
By Gerd Leonhard, Future-Thinker and Humanist, Zürich, Switzerland, November 7, 2016 Machines can increasingly mimic the human brain and may indeed soon outpace it in certain respects such as...
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The Top Five Unexpected Benefits of Robotics in the Classroom
By Aaron Maurer As teachers, we’re well aware that STEM education is essential in preparing students for today’s world of non-stop innovation. In my 13 years of teaching I’ve seen many curriculum fads...
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Media obsession with a bullshit email scandal helped Trump to the White House
The media’s coverage of the 2016 race didn’t win the election for Donald Trump, but it didn’t help. Back in September, Gallup presented the findings of an important research project that, in...
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Top 5 Ways President Trump Could Change U.S. Robotics
During the final weeks of the U.S. presidential race, we examined hints about automation in Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s public position papers. Now, let’s take a closer look at how...
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Finland Will Become the First Country in the World to Get Rid of All School...
Finland’s education system is considered one of the best in the world. In international ratings, it’s always in the top ten. However, the authorities there aren’t ready to rest on their laurels, and...
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This Magic Mirror Includes a Stylist #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi
This mirror is a little bit Clueless and a little bit Harry Potter and we dig it. From Fedor Bobylev on Hackster.io: Hello everyone. I’ve been following magic mirror projects and wanted to build one...
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Here's What 150 Experts Say About the Future of Robotics
Some of the top minds in the field have some advice for the next presidential administration on how to proceed with robotics. Last week, a group of 150 experts from Google, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin,...
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Video Friday: Robot Dance Contest, 500 Drones Flying, and Steady Humanoid
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months;...
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Osram's Laser Chip for Lidar Promises Super-Short Pulses in a Smaller Package
Those twirling banks of lasers you see atop experimental robocars cost plenty, wear fast, and suck power. The auto industry yearns to solve all those problems with a purely solid-state lidar set that...
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"Hitler's only kidding about the antisemitism" New York Times, 1922
"Several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to...
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