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Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Website UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering The Contextual Robotics Institute at UC San Diego invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in robotics. The Institute is...
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This robot teach can teach you how to code by climbing on walls
Some robots make people feel like climbing the wall, and other robots climb the walls themselves. Root a new code-teaching robot is the latest in a long line of teaching bots designed to inspire...
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This Robotic Tank Wants To Kill Mosquitoes With A Laser
Flyswatters are a primitive tool from a more primitive age. Anyone wanting to go to war against mosquitoes in the 21st century needs lasers. No, really. Lasers. Even lasers on tiny anti-mosquito tanks....
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Device Mimics Environment of Mouth With Living Human Cells to Study New Oral...
Colgate-Palmolive has partnered with Draper, an engineering firm, to develop a platform that models human gum tissues to help them develop new oral care products. The device is based on Draper’s human...
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Even With Rising Wages, Robot Revolution Skips Restaurants
Clamshell grills are making burger flipping obsolete at McDonald’s, Johnny Rockets and other burger chains. Digital kiosks, tabletop tablets and mobile phones are taking orders at eateries like Panera,...
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Tiny Fabric-Clinging Robots Are A Fashion Statement
If there’s one thing missing from modern fashion, it’s a flashy accessory that feels like a giant bug is crawling on the wearer at all times. Thanks (?) to the work done by researchers at MIT and...
View ArticlePresident Obama, Please Save Chelsea Manning
Dear President Obama: Chelsea Manning is my friend and hero and I am worried she will not survive much longer. I first met Chelsea on August 22, 2013— the day she announced to the world that she is a...
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For the ‘new yellow journalists,’ opportunity comes in clicks and bucks
“CAN’T TRUST OBAMA,” he writes as the headline, then pauses. His audience hates Obama and loves President-elect Donald Trump, and he wants to capture that disgust and cast it as a drama between good...
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Microsoft Spends Big to Build a Computer Out of Science Fiction
SAN FRANCISCO — There is a growing optimism in the tech world that quantum computers, superpowerful devices that were once the stuff of science fiction, are possible — and may even be practical. If...
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Artificial intelligence can lip-read better than a trained professional
A pair of new studies show that a machine can understand what you’re saying without hearing a sound. by Jamie Condliffe November 21, 2016 Lip-reading is notoriously difficult, depending as much on...
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How to Program a Quadruped Robot with Arduino
Legged robots are the great! They can handle tough terrain much better than their wheeled counterparts and move in more varied and animalistic ways. However this makes legged robots more complicated,...
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Building 8-Bit Bots
Editor's Pick The Vintage Computer Federation is the world’s largest group of collectors and restorers of historic computing systems. Member activities include hands-on exhibitions conducted at all...
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Indium Selenide Takes on the Mantle of the New Wonder Material
Is there a research institute with a more distinguished pedigree in graphene research than the University of Manchester? There certainly haven’t been any that have “gone all in” the way Manchester has...
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Trump to scrap Nasa climate research in crackdown on ‘politicized science’
Donald Trump is poised to eliminate all climate change research conducted by Nasa as part of a crackdown on “politicized science”, his senior adviser on issues relating to the space agency has said....
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Want to Know if the Election was Hacked? Look at the Ballots
You may have read at NYMag that I’ve been in discussions with the Clinton campaign about whether it might wish to seek recounts in critical states. That article, which includes somebody else’s...
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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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Taking Pattern Libraries To The Next Level
By Vitaly Friedman No thorough conversation about the front end today can end without mention of pattern libraries. Sometimes a pattern library appears in the form of a living style guide, or as a...
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Synthetic Proteins Click on DNA Repair, Give Snaps of Early Cancer
More » November 21, 2016 Fleeting expressions and gestures can be more revealing than static poses, which is why candid snapshots are often valued more than formal portraits. Yet snapshots of cancer...
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Why Cambridge could lead the way in synthetic biology
Does the natural world hold the key to solving some of society’s big problems? A team of Cambridge University students that has just won an international prize thinks so. The student team was awarded a...
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Make a CHIP Robot with the $9 C.H.I.P. Computer: HowTo DIY a $9 Robot
In this tutorial we’ll show you the easiest way to make a CHIP robot. Starting with C.H.I.P. is very simple, and making a CHIP robot can be done easily with the GoPiGo Robot kit. In this tutorial we...
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