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Edmonton airport testing out customer service robots
Andra Keay
21 Aug 2014
The customer service robots are the first of their kind in Canada.Source: globalnews.caI nearly forgot about Furo with all the new kiosk and service robots popping up.See on Scoop.it - The Robot Times...
Sex bots, robo-maids, and other myths of the coming robot economy | Popular Science
John Payne
19 Aug 2014
“Earlier this month, a storied, and highly reputable research think tank released an unprecedented work of speculative fiction. Officially, the Pew Research Center’s “AI, Roboti...
Robot cars with adjustable ethics settings | WIRED
John Payne
19 Aug 2014
“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 prefer that the car values all lives the same and minim...
Experts have no idea if robots will steal your job | Harvard Business Review
Hallie Siegel
18 Aug 2014
Experts disagree about the future. That might seem unextraordinary, but it’s the conclusion of a new survey on robots from Pew, and it’s more significant than it sounds. For all the talk of “ro...
Amazon looks to gain liftoff for drone delivery testing | USA Today
Sabine Hauert
17 Aug 2014
Amazon is going on the offensive seeking approval for testing of its planned Prime Air drone delivery system. The online retailer recently banded with several other tech companies to create the Small ...
Artificial intelligence will not turn into a Frankenstein’s monster | The Guardian
Sabine Hauert
16 Aug 2014
Fears of playing god by creating machines that become ever more clever are misplaced. We need to be cautious, but can maintain controlSource: www.theguardian.comSee on Scoop.it - sabinehauert...
Origami robot folds itself up, crawls away | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
14 Aug 2014
“This is the first time where they’ve self-folded such a complicated robotic structure,” says Ronald Fearing, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Cali...
Internet of things tops Gartner’s Hype Cycle | Network World
John Payne
14 Aug 2014
“Gartner believes that most emerging technologies go through a natural process in which they are triggered by some innovation, then they rise to a peak of inflated expectations. As the technolog...
Artificial intelligence will not turn into a Frankenstein’s monster | Alan Winfield via The Guardian
Hallie Siegel
12 Aug 2014
The doomsayers believe that humanity will be overwhelmed by creating machines that – like Terminator's Skynet – become ever-more clever and reach a singularity. They're wrong.
Read more by Alan W...
AI, robotics, and the future of jobs | Pew Research Center
Hallie Siegel
11 Aug 2014
This report covers experts’ views about advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, and their impact on jobs and employment.
The vast majority of respondents to the 2014 Future of the ...
HexHog: an ATV for wheelchair users | Gizmag
John Payne
11 Aug 2014
“The HexHog is a six-wheeled electric ATV (or all terrain vehicle) designed for wheelchair users. It can tackle very rough terrain at a top speed of 8.5 mph (13.6 km/h) and has a range of around...
Gimball: The cage-enclosed drone from EPFL | In The Making
John Payne
08 Aug 2014
The Gimball drone is surrounded by a spherical cage that separates its propellers from objects and people, allowing it to utilize insect-like flight methods such as bumping into things to adjust its t...
How Hackable Is Your Car? Consult This Handy Chart | Autopia | WIRED
Ioannis K. Erripis
08 Aug 2014
Last year, when hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek showed they could hijack the steering and brakes of a Ford Escape and a Toyota Prius with nothing but laptops connected to the cars, they raise...
IBM researchers make a chip full of artificial neurons | Ars Technica
John Payne
08 Aug 2014
“A team of scientists at Cornell University and IBM Research have gotten together to design a chip that's fundamentally different: an asynchronous collection of thousands of small processing cor...
Origami inspires rise of self-folding robot | NYT
Sabine Hauert
08 Aug 2014
A creation made of composite paper can fold and assemble itself and start working without intervention. Such robots could be deployed cheaply and quickly.Source: www.nytimes.comSee on Scoop.it - sabin...
Watch this robot build itself using origami | The Verge
John Payne
08 Aug 2014
The future of origami could be a lot more complicated than the paper-folding techniques of today. Rather than paper, researchers are starting to apply origami's principles to robotics: instead of...So...
AI, robotics, and the future of jobs | Pew Research
John Payne
08 Aug 2014
Experts envision automation and intelligent digital agents permeating vast areas of our work and personal lives by 2025, but they are divided on whether these advances will displace more jobs than the...
Mind-controlled robotic legs? It’s possible | The Telegraph
Hallie Siegel
07 Aug 2014
A research group led by electrical and computer engineering expert Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal is working on a brain-machine interface that could enable users to control a pair of robotic legs with thei...
Robots that use Wi-Fi to see through walls | Gizmag
John Payne
07 Aug 2014
"Robots created by a team working at the University of California, Santa Barbara are able to look through solid walls using just Wi-Fi signals. With potential applications in search and rescue, survei...
Drone with directional antenna expands Wi-Fi range for disaster-struck areas | Gizmag
John Payne
06 Aug 2014
“Researchers from the University of North Texas (UNT) have demonstrated an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of supplying Wi-Fi to disaster-struck areas with a range of up to 5 km (3.1 miles...
Why robots are getting cuter
John Payne
06 Aug 2014
“There’s a robot making its way across Canada right now. It’s not very advanced — just a Nexus tablet attached to an Arduino, really. Yet it’s already made its way from H...
The Neighbourhood Elevator and a new vision of urban density | Robocars
Brad Templeton, Robocars.com
05 Aug 2014
I’ve been musing more on the future of the city under the robocar, and many visions suggest we’ll have more sprawl. Earlier I have written visions of Robocar Oriented Development and outlined all ...
Robocars love the draft | Automaton
Hallie Siegel
05 Aug 2014
If you are willing to leave much of the driving in the hands of the guy behind the steering wheel, and all you want is to manage tight spacing for efficient drafting, then the solution to the problem ...
This robot needs just a few seconds to learn to walk again after you break its legs
Hallie Siegel
04 Aug 2014
As we move slowly towards a future where robots are mobile, rather than bolted securely in-place on a production line, robots will begin to experience the same kind of bumps and bruises that humans e...
If courts are going to treat corporations like humans, they should do the same for robots | Slate
Hallie Siegel
04 Aug 2014
The idea of “legal personhood” existed in America originally to promote the work of the country’s first corporations: banks, insurance companies, water companies, and transportation companies. ...
Wave-riding robots help track illegal fishing | Australia Network News
John Payne
02 Aug 2014
“The Pacific territory of Palau earlier this year declared no commercial fishing would take place in its 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone. … The country currently uses a Cessna S...
NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before
John Payne
01 Aug 2014
“NASA announced the selected Mars 2020 rover instruments Thursday at the agency's headquarters in Washington. Managers made the selections out of 58 proposals received in January from researcher...
When you can’t collect all the data you need, a new algorithm tells you which to target | MIT News
Hallie Siegel
01 Aug 2014
Levine and How developed an algorithm that can efficiently calculate just how much information any node in the graph gives you about any other — what in information theory is called “mutual inform...
SoftBank establishes new robotic company SoftBank Robotics
Reno Tibke
01 Aug 2014
SoftBank establishes new robotic company SoftBank RoboticsSource: akihabaranews.comSee on Scoop.it - AI, NBI, Robotics & Cybernetics & Android Stuff...
K-MAX test extended to 3-year deployment | IEEE Spectrum
John Payne
31 Jul 2014
“The autonomous K-MAX robocopters were originally scheduled to spend just six weeks in Afghanistan undergoing evaluation as they delivered pallets of cargo to remote bases. But the robots did su...
The power of 4-H robotics
John Payne
31 Jul 2014
One of the newest 4-H projects to hit the streets in recent times has met with great success and excitement. And why not? It offers individual development, opportunities to work as a member of a team,...
Collaborative learning for robots | MIT News
John Payne
30 Jul 2014
“If constraints on power, communication, or computation mean that the robots can’t pool their data at one location, how can they collectively build a model? … At the Uncertaint...
Robohub in the news: Microbots, robot swarms, and other news from the future | Footnote
Hallie Siegel
30 Jul 2014
The team from Robohub talks about the hype, the science, and how to understand what’s really happening in cutting-edge robotics.
Read more on Footnote....
Martha Stewart: Why I love my drone | TIME
Hallie Siegel
30 Jul 2014
Last year, while celebrating my birthday in Maine, I was given a drone fitted with a high-definition camera. After a quick introduction to the mechanics of operating the contraption and a few words ab...
Japanese Robots: Jiro Aizawa, the Father of Toy Robots
Reno Tibke
30 Jul 2014
Japanese Robots: Jiro Aizawa, the Father of Toy RobotsSource: akihabaranews.comYour mental image of a friendly toy robot probably originated with one post-war Japanese robotics enthusiast.See on Scoop...
Eindhoven wins 2014 robot soccer World Cup | Gizmag
John Payne
30 Jul 2014
“The [human] World Cup may have finished a few weeks ago, but there was another one played in Brazil just last week. The annual RoboCup competition was held in João Pessoa, including the ...
