Robot arm wins Amazon's tech award
A Dutch team of roboticists has won 2016's Amazon Picking Challenge. The team's mechanical arm proved superior to 15 rivals at moving dozens of different products between a box and shelves without...
View ArticleCould we upload a brain to a computer
People have always dreamed about going beyond the limitations of their bodies: the pain, illness and, above all, death. Now a new movement is dressing up this ancient drive in new technological...
View ArticleAmazon's robot worker challenge won by AI-powered suction arm
While humans are undoubtedly better than robots at all sorts of tasks, slowly but surely the bots are catching up. Helping narrow that gap is retail giant Amazon, which this past weekend funded a...
View ArticleThe robot monk offering Buddhist wisdom
A Buddhist temple on the edge of Beijing is the last place you would expect to find a robot. But the monks of the Longquan Temple have a robot monk called Xian'er. Through a touch screen held on his...
View ArticleWelcome to Jupiter
Scientists and space enthusiasts celebrated late Monday night as the spacecraft Juno successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit after five years and 1.7 billion miles of space travel. “We just did the...
View ArticleJuno Spacecraft in Orbit Around Mighty Jupiter
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA's Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had...
View ArticleThe Tesla Autopilot Crash Could Have Been Much Worse
Five days after the world learned that the driver of a Tesla on Autopilot had died in a crash, there are still a lot of unanswered questions. The first unanswered question—if we go in a strictly...
View ArticleTeam Delft Wins Amazon Picking Challenge
With warehouses full of robots that can move shelves from place to place, the only reason that Amazon needs humans anymore is to pick things off of those shelves and put them into boxes, and pick other...
View ArticleSimon Stålenhag Art Gallery
All art by Simon Stalenhag. Representation: Salomonsson Agency - alexia@salomonssonagency.se
View ArticleSoft Propeller
Become a member to follow this project and don't miss any updates DIP40 - Soft Propeller module, runs Parallax Propeller IP in FPGA + 2 Cortex A9 This project was created on 07/15/2015 and last updated...
View ArticleTI LaunchPad IRC bot
Become a member to follow this project and don't miss any updates An IRC bot written in Energia (Arduino/Wiring) for the TM4C129 "Tiva-C Connected LaunchPad" This project was created on 09/22/2015 and...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Robotics
Robotics is finally stepping out of science fiction and into service, if not in our homes, then at least in our hotels, hospitals, restaurants, warehouses, hardware stores and other retail outlets....
View ArticleNorth American Robotics Market Records Strongest Opening Quarter Ever
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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View ArticleRobots come to each other's aid when they get the signal
Sometimes all it takes to get help from someone is to wave at them, or point. Now the same is true for robots. Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden have completed work on an EU...
View ArticleWhat’s happening in robotics? Five trends to watch
by Frank Tobe Business & Finance Views June 29, 2016 Industrial robots used to be dumb, somewhat inflexible, and mostly blind – but also fast, precise and very efficient. As the cost of...
View ArticleBrilliant 10-year-old roboticist is youngest ever recipient of the Paris...
While most fifth graders are naturally focused on straight chillin', one is already on track to change the world. Ten-year-old roboticist Eva is the youngest person to receive Five by Five's Paris...
View ArticleThe Evolution of AI: Can Morality be Programmed?
In Brief Our artificial intelligence systems are advancing at a remarkable rate, and though it will be some time before we have human-like synthetic intelligence, it makes sense to begin working on...
View Article11 STEAM Snapchat Accounts to Follow
By Erin Winick and Alex Hanson Your Snapchat feeds are about to get STEAM-y (STEAM: that’s STEM, plus art). Username: sweorg Get the inside scoop from SWE conferences and events from around the world,...
View ArticleThe role of telepresence robotics in workforce inclusion
Earlier this year, MIT and the world lost the brilliant mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, author and “father” of artificial intelligence — the legendary Dr. Marvin Minsky. Among his myriad...
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