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Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize: Fianlists | Gizmag
John Payne
02 Sep 2014
“Qualcomm is offering a US$10 million prize purse in the hope of stimulating the research and development of precision diagnostic equipment, seen by many as essential in a world where healthcare...
Drone developers consider unavoidable obstacles | NYTimes
John Payne
02 Sep 2014
With the recent demonstration of a drone-based delivery system by Google, the tech industry’s enthusiasm for the devices seems undimmed — but some issues will be difficult to solve.Source:...
Bankers beware: City ‘will soon be run by robots’
John Payne
01 Sep 2014
“Robots will be running the City within 10 years, rendering investment bankers, analysts and even quants redundant, it has been claimed. ... Artificial intelligence is about to outpace huma...
Google Drones Lift Industry Hopes
Andra Keay
31 Aug 2014
Google's entry into the drone business brings financial and lobbying heft that should help the fledging industry overcome technical and regulatory obstacles.Source: online.wsj.comSee on Scoop.it - The...
Imagination Technologies releases MIPS single-board computer | LinuxGizmos
John Payne
30 Aug 2014
“The core of the 90.2 mm x 95.3 mm Creator CI20 SBC is its Ingenic JZ4780 system-on-chip, which integrates a pair of MIPS32 cores clocked at 1.2GHz, a PowerVR SGX540 GPU, and an IEEE75...
Japanese robots: Pepper gallery! | Akibaranews
Reno Tibke
30 Aug 2014
Japanese Robots: Pepper Gallery!Source: akihabaranews.comGALLERY: Pepper the robot, by SoftBank/Aldebaran#ROBOT #PEPPER #SOFTBANK...
NASA 3D prints rocket injector, initial tests successful | NASA News
Hallie Siegel
29 Aug 2014
Engineers just completed hot-fire testing with two 3-D printed rocket injectors. Certain features of the rocket components were designed to increase rocket engine performance. The injector mixed liqui...
Microsoft announces standalone 2nd gen Kinect sensor | Gizmag
John Payne
29 Aug 2014
“After Microsoft started offering the Xbox One without the Kinect sensorearlier this year to better complete with Sony's PS4, it was only a matter of time before a standalone Kinect wa...
SCENE IN TOKYO: Robotic Helper Climbs Stairs in Shinjuku Station
Reno Tibke
29 Aug 2014
SCENE IN TOKYO: Robotic Helper Climbs Stairs in Shinjuku StationSource: akihabaranews.comNo ramps? No elevators? No problem.See on Scoop.it - AI, NBI, Robotics & Cybernetics & Android Stuff...
Google’s self-driving cars still face many obstacles | MIT Technology Review
Sabine Hauert
29 Aug 2014
Impressive progress hides major limitations of Google’s quest for automated driving.Source: www.technologyreview.com...
Dyson video teaser points to big announcement on Sept. 4th | TechCrunch
John Payne
29 Aug 2014
“Dyson is teasing a big announcement for September 4, and it released a new video teaser to get people thinking about what might be unveiled. The video shows a lab as seen from the perspective o...
Google’s Secret Drone-Delivery Program “project wing” | the Atlantic
Ioannis K. Erripis
28 Aug 2014
After two years of development, the Silicon Valley company reveals to The Atlantic that it has substantial research effort into building flying robots than can deliver products across a city...
CSAIL study finds that human subjects prefer when robots give the orders | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
28 Aug 2014
http://youtu.be/GJ0Pmk_UDY4
New research coming out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) suggests that letting robots have control over human tasks in manufac...
New algorithm lets drones monitor their own health during long package-delivery missions | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
28 Aug 2014
In the near future, the package that you ordered online may be deposited at your doorstep by a drone: Last December, online retailer Amazon announced plans to explore drone-based delivery, suggesting ...
NASA’s “swarmies” robots would team up to explore alien worlds | Gizmag
John Payne
28 Aug 2014
“A collection of autonomous robots designed to scuttle around on distant planets looking for resources and materials in much the same way that members of insect colonies do on Earth are currentl...
Robirds: Robotic birds of prey to terrorize real birds | WIRED
John Payne
28 Aug 2014
“Nijenhuis, a 27-year-old based in the Netherlands, is the mind behind Robirds, a line of robotic birds of prey. He’s hoping to sell them to the aviation and waste management industries un...
Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds
Andra Keay
27 Aug 2014
The five elements of cloud roboticsSource: medium.comGreat overview by Ken Goldberg See on Scoop.it - The Robot Times...
Five Myths and Facts About Robotics Technology Today – IEEE Spectrum
Andra Keay
27 Aug 2014
An investor discusses five pressing issues about the future of robots
Source: spectrum.ieee.org
Interesting insights from Shahin Farschi of Lux Capital, who also sees a lot of movement in the indu...
Autonomous mini helicopters hunt down invasive weeds from the air | Gizmag
John Payne
27 Aug 2014
“The sheer density of the rainforests in Australia's far-north creates a slight problem for local conservationists. With incursions by invasive plants posing a threat to the native flora, inacce...
Robots to help build aircraft | Phys.org
John Payne
27 Aug 2014
“Car manufacturers have been using stationary robots to help build their products for years, but airplanes are constructed differently, posing challenges to the use of robotics. ... Trying ...
Google is testing its autonomous cars in a ‘Matrix-style’ version of California
John Payne
27 Aug 2014
“Google has created what it calls a "Matrix-style," virtual version of California's road system that it's been using to test self-driving cars before sending them out onto the actual road, ...
What a drone-filled America could look like | The Verge
John Payne
27 Aug 2014
“The laws governing drone use in the US right now are relatively black and white. For the most part, you either can fly, or you can't — and there's no in between. That's really limiting fo...
Algorithm reduces computational load of drone ‘health’ monitoring | MIT
John Payne
26 Aug 2014
“MIT researchers have come up with a two-pronged approach that significantly reduces the computation associated with lengthy delivery missions. The team first developed an algorithm that enables...
Robo Brain learns “how to” from images and videos | Popular Science
John Payne
26 Aug 2014
“Robo Brain isn’t exactly feasting on the internet. That implies a level of choice, or agency. What’s happening to Robo Brain is closer to force-feeding, as researchers fro...
Autonomous cars 101 | Brad Templeton via Big Think
Robohub Editors
25 Aug 2014
http://youtu.be/1BylX2XwwAM
Brad Templeton explains how autonomous vehicles will be a major disruptive innovation arriving sooner than most are expecting. Templeton is Board Member and Former Chair...
How drones are emerging as a valuable conservation tool | Lian Pin Koh via Environment 360
Hallie Siegel
25 Aug 2014
Our first project was to find a cheaper way to monitor orangutan populations in Sumatra. Traditionally people have to walk the forest on foot and count the nests in the forest canopy, and from those c...
The cyborg workforce | GE Reports
Hallie Siegel
25 Aug 2014
A 2014 study from RobotEnomics suggests that implementing industrial robotics can increase a firm’s number of human employees. The EU recently invested €2.8bn in robotics research. The goal: boost...
In the future, will only robots celebrate Labor Day? | Forbes
Hallie Siegel
25 Aug 2014
What is different about the virtual robot revolution is not that jobs will be displaced in the short term, but that the robots (or algorithms) will do something different. They will amplify and not ...
Unbounded Robotics to shut down due to issues with Willow Garage spin-off agreement | IEEE Spectrum
Sabine Hauert
25 Aug 2014
The robotics community loses a promising startupSource: spectrum.ieee.org...
3 Latest news breaks in emerging tech
Corrina Underwood and TechEmergence
25 Aug 2014
Pediatric Robot Surgeon
According to a recent report from NASA, some of their engineers and a team of researchers from the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) have recently developed a robotic su...
The secrets Google wanted to keep about its self-driving cars | Quartz
Ioannis K. Erripis
25 Aug 2014
Google’s experimental self-driving cars have traveled more than 700,000 miles on California’s roads with nothing more serious than a fender bender, and that one while a human was...
Want a happy worker? Let robots take control.
John Payne
25 Aug 2014
"New research coming out of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) suggests that letting robots have control over human tasks in manufacturing is not just more efficient ...
Bridge inspection robot detects corrosion in hard-to-reach spots | ETH News
Hallie Siegel
22 Aug 2014
The aim was to develop a robot that could detect corrosion in all areas – including sites inaccessible to people – and at the earliest possible stage. The researchers did not have to search long f...
Automata (the movie) coming Oct. 10th | The Verge
John Payne
22 Aug 2014
“The film takes place in a dark future where robots are quickly gaining consciousness, and things go bad when a small number of them actually become sentient and kidnap a human.”Source: ww...
Here’s a terrible idea: Robot cars with adjustable ethics settings | Patrick Lin via WIRED
Hallie Siegel
21 Aug 2014
Why not let the user select the car’s “ethics setting”? The way this would work is one customer may set the car (which he paid for) to jealously value his life over all others; another user may ...
A byte to eat
Andra Keay
21 Aug 2014
STARWOOD HOTELS is rolling out a robot to help fulfil room-service requests for its guests. The butler known as a "botlr" is being tested in its Cupertino hotel in...Source: www.economist.comSavioke's...
