We Risk Building our Gender Biases Into Robots, warns Industry Leader
Robots risk perpetuating damaging gender stereotypes, Silicon Valley's robotics industry group's managing director has warned. "There is a lot of stereotyping starting to emerge in robots. When all...
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Retro Robot Hard Enamel Pins
$75.00 7 This project was successfully funded on This is only a draft that the creator has chosen to share. This is only a draft that the creator has chosen to share. Funding for this project was...
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Google translations get a major boost from artificial intelligence
Google just made a major upgrade to its Translate app. The company is now using a new technology called neural machine translation — which aims to make computer-generated translations more similar to...
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Researchers Just Solved One of the Biggest Problems in Synthetic Biology
In Brief Researchers have discovered that placing synthetic genetic circuits in liposomes prevents them from interfering with one another, while still allowing them to communicate. Not only could this...
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Les robots
De quels robots voulons-nous ? Pendant que la plupart d’entre nous en sont encore à se débattre avec nos smartphones, ou objets connectés pour les plus en pointe, des centaines de start-up et grands...
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TrotBot tackles rough terrain
by Ben Vagle Education & DIY Tutorials November 17, 2016 Hi, I’m Ben. I was a member of the team that developed a new walking mechanism, TrotBot, that we eventually scaled up to the size of a...
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Rise of digital DNA raises biopiracy fears
It’s possible to forget that genes grow on trees. Chinese wormwood, for instance, holds genes for enzymes needed to assemble the malaria-killing compound artemisinin. But increasingly, the world’s...
View Article[1611.04135] Automated Inference on Criminality using Face Images
Full-text links: PDF Other formats cs.CV < prev | next > new | recent | 1611 cs NASA ADS (what is this?) Abstract: We study, for the first time, automated inference on criminality based solely on...
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Terminally ill teen won historic ruling to freeze body
A 14-year-old girl who wanted her body to be frozen so she could be brought back to life, won an historic legal fight shortly before her death. The girl, who was terminally ill with a rare cancer, was...
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D1 Mini Matrix Shield
So, Adafruit has those nice 8x8 LED matrix backpacks, which use I²C for communication and are generally very cool to play with. They even have shields (FeatherWings) for their boards with them....
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Synthetic biology pulls CO2 out of the atmosphere
Volume 94 Issue 46 | p. 7 | News of The WeekIssue Date: November 21, 2016 | Web Date: November 17, 2016A suite of enzymes borrowed from humans, plants, and other life-forms can turn the greenhouse gas...
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Facebook Must Really Suck At Machine Learning
Facebook recently claimed it is hard[1] to differentiate between fake news[2] and real news. Given how similar fake news detection is to related problems such as search index spam, ads landing page...
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Video Friday: Self-Racing Cars, Robot Grumpy Cat, and Where's Keepon?
On a Friday morning nine (!) years ago, I published a post with just one video and one line of text on BotJunkie.com, the robotics blog I ran at the time before joining IEEE Spectrum. That was the...
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Nanoantenna Changes Direction of Light and the Prospects of Optical Computing
Russian and U.S. researchers have developed a technique whereby the direction of light can be manipulated using a novel optical nanoantenna. The researchers believe that this nanoantenna could help...
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China Is Building a Robot Army of Model Workers
Can China reboot its manufacturing industry—and the global economy—by replacing millions of workers with machines? by Will Knight April 26, 2016 Above: A robot arm moves circuit boards around for...
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Rise of the drones: from policing the streets to painting your house
If technology companies have their way, the buzz of a drone will soon be as ubiquitous as the glint of a smartphone screen. Facebook aims to deliver internet access from drones high in the...
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Barack Obama: Now Is the Greatest Time to Be Alive
When WIRED asked me to guest-edit the November issue, I didn’t hesitate. I know it’s the height of election season, and I happen to have a day job that keeps me pretty busy. But given the chance to...
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A Slow Ride Toward the Future of Public Transportation
It’s no accident that the bus is being tested in Helsinki, which has been at the forefront of efforts to use technology to rethink public transportation. Driverless buses like this one are being used...
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When bias in product design means life or death
During my Ph.D. studies, I developed a voice-activated human-robot interface for a surgical robotic system using Microsoft’s speech recognition API. But, because the API had been built mainly by...
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Still time for an election audit: Column
A Washington Post–ABC News poll found that 18% of voters — 33% of Clinton supporters and 1% of Trump supporters — think Trump was not the legitimate winner of the election. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,...
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