The U.S. Media Is Completely Unprepared to Cover a Trump Presidency
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View ArticleHow drones will reshape the enterprise
Most people associate drones with troops and mad scientists tinkering around in their backyards. Thanks to technological breakthroughs — including longer and safer flights — and new federal guidelines...
View ArticleJapanese engineer sees evolution guiding next wave in robotics
What could be the next big thing in technology after the digital revolution? According to Chuo University engineering professor, the answer could come from Mother Nature. “Traditionally, people wanted...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Robotics
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View ArticleMicrosoft teams up with Elon Musk’s OpenAI project
OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research non-profit backed by Tesla’s Elon Musk, Y Combinator’s Sam Altman, a Donald Trump fan called Peter Thiel, and numerous other tech luminaries, is partnering...
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View ArticleEU Project Developing Symbiotic Robot-Plant Biohybrids
Flora Robotica is a project funded by the European Union whose goal is “to develop and investigate closely linked symbiotic relationships between robots and natural plants and to explore the potentials...
View ArticlePolySync launches open-source kit for autonomous car development
If you’re tired of waiting around to get an autonomous vehicle, PolySync’s Open Source Car Control Project (OSCC) development kit can be had for under $1000. Autonomous cars are still in their infancy,...
View ArticleThis Robot Can Fly a Plane from Takeoff to Landing
Developing an unmanned aircraft is a complex and expensive process, and even retrofitting manned aircraft for autonomous operation can be tricky. At KAIST in South Korea, researchers are testing a...
View Article5 Reasons to Start a Robotics Competition Team
You may have seen our blog post from this past Friday on how to get a robotics competition team up and running but you may still be on the fence about whether or not to start a team. Some of the...
View ArticleElon Musk thinks universal income is answer to automation taking human jobs
Tech innovators in the self-driving car and AI industries talk a lot about how many human jobs will be innovated out of existence, but they rarely explain what will happen to all those newly jobless...
View ArticleCould robots soon care for Sweden's elderly?
In particular it is thought that robots could be useful in helping to care for the elderly, a researcher from Umeå university explained. “In the short term we are working on research and development of...
View ArticleWhen an AI machine studied declassified State Department cables, it found...
AI might be able to determine why information gets either classified or declassified in error. by Emerging Technology from the arXiv November 14, 2016 The U.S. State Department generates some two...
View ArticleAir, land, and sea: ERL Emergency Robots competition dates announced
by Marta Palau Franco Events Articles November 15, 2016 The European Robotics League (ERL) is pleased to announce the dates for the major tournament of the ERL Emergency Robots competition. The 2017...
View ArticleGE acquires machine learning startup Wise.io
GE today announced that its GE Digital division has acquired machine learning startup Wise.io. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. Among other things, GE wants to have Wise’s team improve its Digital...
View Article20 incredible women leading the way to scientific advancement
The human capacity for curiosity, experimentation and innovation is limitless. But, on the path to scientific advancement, who’s leading the charge? As Science Week kicks off across Ireland, we kick...
View ArticleA.I. Experiments
Explore machine learning by playing with pictures, language, music, code, and more. Giorgio Cam Quick, Draw! The Infinite Drum Machine Thing Translator Bird Sounds A.I. Duet Visualizing...
View ArticleRobot flying taxi takes its first autonomous flight
Nine years ago, the Air Mule was an almost-believable concept: a flying robot taxi that could get people out of dangerous battlefields without endangering a pilot or crew. It was the exact sort of...
View ArticleGoogle’s Diane Greene says the singularity won’t arrive in her sentient lifetime
Google’s head of engineering, Ray Kurzweil, is known for espousing what’s known as the “technological singularity”: The idea that artificial intelligence will become so smart that it will take on a...
View ArticleTwitter suspends alt-right accounts
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter suspended a number of accounts associated with the alt-right movement, the same day the social media service said it would crack down on hate speech. Among those suspended was...
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