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SBC Bonanza: 40 products compared | LinuxGizmos
John Payne
01 Jan 2015
2014 brought us plenty of new open-spec, community-backed SBCs -- from $35 bargains, to octa-core powerhouses -- and all with Linux or Android support.Source: linuxgizmos.comSee on Scoop.it - Cultibot...
JPL enters RoboSimian in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals | Gizmag
John Payne
31 Dec 2014
“In October, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California unveiled a new and improved version of its RoboSimian robot. Called Surrogate, it has many advantages over its predecesso...
Offsetting lethal autonomy with empathy | CityAM
John Payne
27 Dec 2014
“The benefits of giving artificial intelligence a bigger role in the military are obvious – on the front line, machines, rather than human lives, would be put at risk (in the case of the a...
Drones deliver a raft of surprises in 2014 | Gizmag
John Payne
24 Dec 2014
2014 wasn’t the year that drones first entered the consumer lexicon, but it did see the notion of using these vehicles to our advantage become much more palatable. Let’s have a look at som...
Amphibious HexH2o drone shoots both aerial and underwater video
John Payne
24 Dec 2014
“…the HexH2o has several advantages over its smaller sibling [the QuadH2o]. For one thing, its extra props/motors offer some reassurance in the form of redundancy – if one of them f...
Fast Lightweight Autonomy (FLA) program to improve agility of UAVs | DARPA
John Payne
23 Dec 2014
“The program aims to develop and demonstrate autonomous UAVs small enough to fit through an open window and able to fly at speeds up to 20 meters per second (45 miles per hour)—while navig...
Fish ‘drives’ aquarium on wheels | Inhabitat
John Payne
20 Dec 2014
Studio Diip's "Fish on Wheels" holds the title of the world's first self-driving car for fish.Source: inhabitat.comSee on Scoop.it - Cultibotics...
What happens to society when robots replace workers? | Harvard Business Review
John Payne
20 Dec 2014
“The technologies of the past, by replacing human muscle, increased the value of human effort – and in the process drove rapid economic progress. Those of the future, by substituting ...
AI may be dominant ‘life’ in cosmos | Motherboard
John Payne
19 Dec 2014
The NASA scientists, philosophers, and futurists who believe that the aliens we meet most likely won't be a life form at all.Source: motherboard.vice.comSee on Scoop.it - Cultibotics...
Curiosity finds active organic chemistry on Mars | Gizmag
John Payne
18 Dec 2014
“Drill samples taken from an area called "Cumberland," which was once mudstone comprising an ancient Martian lakebed, have yielded the first definite proof of the existence of organic chemicals ...
Reaction to the Sony hack incommensurate with real damage/threat | Motherboard
John Payne
18 Dec 2014
“Peter W. Singer: ‘There's two layers to it now. There's the definition of terrorism and the reaction to it, which has been a combination of being both insipid and encouraging to fut...
Four-legged robot claimed to be world’s nimblest | Wired UK
Hallie Siegel
15 Dec 2014
This agile, four-legged robot is the StarlETH -- one of five designs shortlisted for the Total ARGOS challenge, a €500,000 (£400,000) prizeSee it on Scoop.it, via Robotics...
Electronic skin can sense the direction in which it’s being touched | Gizmag
John Payne
13 Dec 2014
“We've already seen artificial skin capable of sensing touch and prosthetics that sense texture, but now a group of Korean scientists has come up with a stretchable electronic ski...
The 2015 3D Printer Guide | 3D Hubs
John Payne
13 Dec 2014
Looking for the best 3d printers? The 3D Hubs 2015 3D Printer Guide answers it, and while doing so it digs deep and reach far beyond what today's 3D Printer Reviews reveal. 2,279 3D printer owners hav...
iRobot Create 2 arrives | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
12 Dec 2014
“Just like with the first Create, the new Create is a Roomba with most of its guts ripped out. It’s based on a refurbished 600 series Roomba, which makes it cheap, but it’s also as r...
Retail robots: The droid at till no 7 | BBC
Andra Keay
11 Dec 2014
Source: www.bbc.comHow robots like OshBot, Budgee, Pepper, Jibo will reshape retail, with insights from Rob Nail at Singularity U. (and some from me too)See on Scoop.it - The Robot Times...
4 cores at 1.5 GHz, SBC for $35 | LinuxGizmos
John Payne
11 Dec 2014
Hardkernel's $35 "Odroid-C1" SBC runs Android or Ubuntu on a 1.5GHz quad-core Amlogic SoC, and boasts 1GB RAM plus quasi-RPi-compatible 40-pin expansion.Source: linuxgizmos.comSmall SBCs just official...
New Horizons spacecraft awakens for close approach to Pluto | NASA
John Payne
07 Dec 2014
“After a voyage of nearly nine years and three billion miles —the farthest any space mission has ever traveled to reach its primary target – NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft came...
Foxconn robots unsuitable for iPhone assembly, new design coming | MacRumors
John Payne
06 Dec 2014
“Foxconn recently deployed robots to help assemble iPhones and other Apple devices, but so far the program may not be as successful as first anticipated. According to the Chinese econo...
Your food will be grown by robots | Fast Company
John Payne
06 Dec 2014
“The automation of agriculture is upon us. There are already dozens of robots churning around the countryside—chopping, weeding, digging, and pot-moving—and, in the future, there'll ...
Humorous MOSS video | Modular Robotics
John Payne
05 Dec 2014
What happens when you give puppies and kitten robots? Pure glee. Special thanks to our partners at 4 Paws 4 Life and MaxFund in Denver, Colorado for sharing their adorable, adoptable animals with...
FOCUS 30 Robotic Total Stations: Saskatchewan bridges in better shape | GeoConnexion
Hallie Siegel
05 Dec 2014
Building and repairing bridges is a continuing important task for Canada Bridge, a division of Minty’s Moving. In the often isolated regions that Scott Gullacher, engineer and project mana...
Hunting as a pack | The Economist
Andra Keay
04 Dec 2014
WHEN Sabine Hauert told a recent RE.WORK technology summit in London about injecting trillions of man-made smart devices, some as small as 10 nanometres (billionths...Source: www.economist.comFantasti...
Capturing the UK robotics opportunity
Andra Keay
03 Dec 2014
We live in an era of unprecedented change. Technological advancement is a key driver of this change, and robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) are set to make a huge impact on cross-sector innovation ...
Japanese Asteroid Probe Set to Launch Tonight | Slate
Ioannis K. Erripis
02 Dec 2014
The Japanese space agency JAXA is scheduled to launch a very important mission tonight: The Hayabusa 2 space probe, set to visit the asteroid 1999 JU3. This is a very ambitious mission: It will land o...
Fraunhofer developing flying inventory robots | Gizmag
John Payne
02 Dec 2014
The Fraunhofer Institute's InventAIRy Project is developing a new flying robotic drone that not only takes over the drudgery of stock taking, but also acts ...Source: www.gizmag.comSee on Scoop.it - C...
Hawking: AI could end human race | BBC News
John Payne
02 Dec 2014
“Prof Hawking says the primitive forms of artificial intelligence developed so far have already proved very useful, but he fears the consequences of creating something that can match or surpass huma...
Iowa professor developing robotic weeder | Iowa State Engineering
John Payne
02 Dec 2014
“Weeding has been a long-standing problem for many years because there is no silver bullet—there are just too many variables. And for organic farmers, their options are very limited. Their...
Technology pushes productivity, but at a steep price | NYTimes
John Payne
02 Dec 2014
“Equipment makers like John Deere and AGCO, for example, have covered their planters, tractors and harvesters with sensors, computers and communications equipment. A combine equipped to har...
Drones, planes, too close for comfort in Canadian skies | CBC Radio
Hallie Siegel
02 Dec 2014
The technology that is transforming everything from wedding photography to scientific research is becoming every pilot's nightmare. According to Transport Canada, there have already been 44 repor...
Deep Space Industries and Solid Prototype announce strategic partnership | DSI
Hallie Siegel
01 Dec 2014
Solid Prototype will be an integral part of DSI’s spacecraft design process, helping reduce costs and decrease turnaround time Houston, TX – December 1, 2014. Deep Space Indust...
CMU unveils lunar rover: “Andy” | Carnegie Mellon News
John Payne
01 Dec 2014
"Every extraterrestrial robot carries some DNA from Carnegie Mellon, but Andy would be the first true CMU robot to make the leap from Earth," said William "Red" Whittaker, professor of robotics and di...
New device could make large biological circuits practical | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
27 Nov 2014
Innovation from MIT could allow many biological components to be connected to produce predictable effects.See it on Scoop.it, via Robotics...
Antarctic sea ice mapping by underwater robot put to test | Gizmag
John Payne
25 Nov 2014
“Antarctic scientists have combined measurements provided by an underwater robot with existing satellite data to show that Antarctic sea ice may be thicker than previously thought. Their first-o...
First person flier: Parrot’s Bebop + VR | The Verge
John Payne
24 Nov 2014
“The best part of our demo session with the Bebop, however, was testing out an integration with headset technology that puts you inside the drone with a first-person perspective. We tried it out...
A fast-paced survey of 3D printing | DNews
John Payne
22 Nov 2014
“It seems like 3D printers can print just about anything, but is there any future in the world of printing? Trace examines how 3D printing is actively changing the world.”Source: www.youtu...
