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How long before AI systems are hacked in creative new ways? | MIT Technology Review
Kassie Perlongo
16 Dec 2016
Research points to ways that machine-learning programs could be tricked into doing unwanted things.
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Augmented reality set to overtake VR as new apps go live | New Scientist
Kassie Perlongo
16 Dec 2016
"You’re at work, flipping through emails that hang in mid-air. Graphs, text messages and pictures pop up on your desk, then disappear. Bored, you sit back and watch a jellyfish bob across the ceilin...
Google’s former car guru Chris Urmson is working on his own self-driving company | Recode
Alex Kirkpatrick
14 Dec 2016
When Chris Urmson announced he was leaving Google X’s self-driving car project, he wrote: “If I can find another project that turns into an obsession and becomes something more, I will consider my...
Feds: Cars must be able to talk to each other | USA Today
Alex Kirkpatrick
14 Dec 2016
U.S. auto-safety regulators on Tuesday proposed new rules requiring automakers to adopt crash-avoidance technology that allows all new vehicles to communicate with each other, a move that could help...
A Chinese Internet Giant Enters the AI Race | MIT Technology Review
Kassie Perlongo
12 Dec 2016
Senior editor Will Knight discusses Tencent's big push to build a formidable AI lab. Tencent provides the immensely popular mobile app WeChat along with games and entertainment content.
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Why would you want to buy a self-driving car? | Financial Times
Kassie Perlongo
12 Dec 2016
John Gapper, from Financial Times, explores why autonomous transport will become a utility bought by volume, like electricity and water.
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Projector robot moves, learns, alters shape | The Japan Times
Alex Kirkpatrick
09 Dec 2016
Cerevo Inc. said Friday it has launched a shape-changing home projector robot that can turn ceilings, walls and floors into displays...
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Forget drones: Google explores robot delivery | MIT Technology Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
09 Dec 2016
Legged robots from Boston Dynamics can navigate a home, and even deliver a parcel, using advances in manipulation and vision...
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MIT’s modular robotic chain is whatever you want it to be | IEEE Spectrum
Alex Kirkpatrick
08 Dec 2016
As sensors, computers, actuators, and batteries decrease in size and increase in efficiency, it becomes possible to make robots much smaller without sacrificing a whole lot of capability. There’s a ...
Drones can safely carry blood bags | Engadget
Alex Kirkpatrick
08 Dec 2016
Paramedics and rescue teams can't always afford to wait for blood supplies, especially when they're in remote locations where most vehicles would take too long (or can't visit at all). However, they m...
What is the difference between artificial intelligence and machine learning? | Forbes
Alex Kirkpatrick
07 Dec 2016
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are two very hot buzzwords right now, and often seem to be used interchangeably. They are not quite the same thing, but the perception that they ...
NASA is building a robot to refuel satellites in space | Gizmodo UK
Alex Kirkpatrick
06 Dec 2016
You would never buy a hundred million-pound computer without a repair plan, but that’s exactly what NASA does when it sends costly satellites into space. To ensure that its prized eyes-in-the-sky do...
Wall-jumping robot is most vertically agile ever built | Phys.Org
Alex Kirkpatrick
06 Dec 2016
Roboticists at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jum...
Uber Launches an AI Lab | MIT Technology Review
Kassie Perlongo
06 Dec 2016
"Uber AI Labs shows the company’s determination not to fall behind in efforts to develop self-driving vehicles."
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Artificial Intelligence Makes Strides, but Has a Long Way to Go | The Wall Street Journal
Kassie Perlongo
06 Dec 2016
"Creating systems that can be used for a variety of problems could take decades"
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How artificial intelligence and robots will radically transform the economy | Newsweek
Kassie Perlongo
05 Dec 2016
"Next time you stop for gas at a self-serve pump, say hello to the robot in front of you. Its life story can tell you a lot about the robot economy roaring toward us like an EF5 tornado on the prairie...
The Army’s looking into putting bacteria into its electronics | Ars Technica
Kassie Perlongo
05 Dec 2016
Army Research Lab scientists are collaborating with biologists.
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IoT Botnets Are Growing—and Up for Hire | MIT Technology Review
Kassie Perlongo
05 Dec 2016
"When anyone can make use of a burgeoning army of rogue connected devices for a fee, the threat of a crippled Internet is more real than ever."
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Amazon has a shiny new startup accelerator to advance conversational AI| TechCrunch
Alex Kirkpatrick
05 Dec 2016
Big tech companies have been creating accelerators left and right to evangelize their brands and get developers engaged with APIs and other open-source efforts. Today, Amazon joined the crowd by annou...
Robot wants to be more than new kid on the block | Sixth Tone
Alex Kirkpatrick
05 Dec 2016
On a recent Saturday evening on the outskirts of Shenzhen, in southern China’s Guangdong province, Aelos the robot was showing off his dance moves as he bopped to the beat of “Gangnam Style.”
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FarmBot nearing final design for initial production run | FarmBot.io
John Payne
03 Dec 2016
From the FarmBot.io newsletter: “Over the last few months we've been hard at work further refining the FarmBot Genesis hardware design and readying it for mass production. This process has included ...
This robot crosses rough ground like a human does | MIT Technology Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
02 Dec 2016
In a video found by TechCrunch, researchers from the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition Robotics Lab in Pensacola, Florida, show off a new set of control algorithms that allow the Boston Dyna...
SMP Robotics S5 PTZ security robot wins awards for Tech Tank and featured new product contests at ISC East Security Conference | PR Newswire
Alex Kirkpatrick
02 Dec 2016
SMP Robotics (http://smprobotics.com), a manufacturer of autonomous mobile robots, announced today that its S5 Security Robot has won two contests of the ISC East, Northeast's largest physical securit...
On course: Deals to drones companies to hold steady in 2016 | CB Insights
Alex Kirkpatrick
01 Dec 2016
Drones may still be having a land-grab moment. Startups in the category have already seen significant investment, with venture funding booming by 214% in 2015. And now the category is evolving beyond ...
How to fix Silicon Valley’s sexist algorithms | MIT Technology Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
01 Dec 2016
Computers are inheriting gender bias implanted in language data sets—and not everyone thinks we should correct it...
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DARPA creates space robotics consortium | Signal
Alex Kirkpatrick
30 Nov 2016
Recent technological advances have brought the on-orbit robotic servicing of satellites closer to reality. Now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has kicked off the Consortium for E...
Castable bulk metallic glass strain wave gears: Towards decreasing the cost of high-performance robotics | Nature
Alex Kirkpatrick
30 Nov 2016
The use of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) as the flexspline in strain wave gears (SWGs), also known as harmonic drives, is presented. SWGs are unique, ultra-precision gearboxes that function through the...
Robot suitcases coming to an airport near you | TheStar.com
Alex Kirkpatrick
29 Nov 2016
Self-moving suitcase has GPS, a fingerprint-activated lock, can charge your phone and carry your stuff.
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Mini robot delicate enough to perform cataract surgery | Reuters
Alex Kirkpatrick
29 Nov 2016
Video: mini robot designed to perform eye surgery.
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Robots muscle in on the job interview | FT
Kassie Perlongo
25 Nov 2016
"She specialises in interviewing candidates for sales positions. Although relatively new to the job, Matlda still knows more than those she grills and uses her arsenal of 76 questions with ruthless ef...
In the future, will farming be fully automated? | BBC
Kassie Perlongo
25 Nov 2016
"In the not-too-distant future, our fields could be tilled, sown, tended and harvested entirely by fleets of co-operating autonomous machines by land and air.
And they'll be working both day and ni...
‘MekaMon’ mixes biology and mechanics for mesmerizing robot battles | Forbes
Alex Kirkpatrick
20 Nov 2016
MekaMon’s eerily life-like robotic movement is unlike any other tech-toy I’ve seen. Combining video game and real world combat, these weaponised robot creatures come at a price ($329 each) but pro...
Graveyard shift: Zombie-like robot helps guard cemetery at night | Global Times
Alex Kirkpatrick
20 Nov 2016
A cemetery in Henan Province has hired on a new security guard that is not exactly alive. The humanoid robot, which the Chaoyang Cemetery in Luoyang says is intended to escort female employees while o...
Yann LeCun: The Next Frontier in AI (Unsupervised) | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
19 Nov 2016
Link to video on YouTubeThe rapid progress of AI in the last few years are largely the result of advances in deep learning and neural nets, combined with the availability of large datasets and fast GP...
Jibo Social Robot Won’t Ship in 2016 | Robotics Trends
Alex Kirkpatrick
18 Nov 2016
Jibo won't ship to customers in 2016. In an email update to its Indiegogo backers, CEO Steve Chambers says Jibo's second in-home beta test "shed light on some important technical challenges we must ov...
Cockroach robot flips itself with insect-inspired wings | IEEE Spectrum
Alex Kirkpatrick
18 Nov 2016
For the last several years, we’ve been following closely (and somewhat uncomfortably) the development of robot cockroaches. Depending on your perspective, it’s either good news or bad news that th...
