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Forget about flying drones over these 133 places | Fortune
Alex Kirkpatrick
07 Apr 2017
Flights of nearly all unmanned aircraft, or drones, have been banned over 133 U.S. military facilities due to security concerns over the use of unauthorized drones, the Federal Aviation Administration...
How to mourn a space robot | The Atlantic
Alex Kirkpatrick
07 Apr 2017
Cassini, the spacecraft that has been orbiting Saturn for 13 years, is running out of fuel and nearing the end of its mission. Over the next few months, Cassini will dive into the space between Saturn...
A toy for toddlers doubles as code bootcamp | New York Times
Alex Kirkpatrick
06 Apr 2017
It took a tentative step forward, turned to the left, took another step and then came to rest under a tree — at least, a drawing of one. Cubetto does not actually walk, but the smiling wooden robot ...
The U.S.A.’s giant robot duel with Japan is really happening | Inverse
Alex Kirkpatrick
06 Apr 2017
Megabots, the makers of the 12,000 pound Mark III robot suit, are about to fulfill the dreams of anime nerds everywhere, and validate the entire premise of Kickstarter while they’re at it. It’s be...
A robot with its head in the cloud tackles warehouse picking | MIT Technology Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
05 Apr 2017
A dexterous new robotic gripper can manipulate unfamiliar objects, and it shares what it learns with a hive mind in the cloud.
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Watch this robotic manta ray speed through the water | Science
Alex Kirkpatrick
05 Apr 2017
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Building a robot is easy. Building a robot with soft, bendable parts is still doable. But building a soft robot “fish” that can swim as well as the r...
5 ways to invest in the robot revolution | Market Watch
Alex Kirkpatrick
04 Apr 2017
Donald Trump voters have found comfort in his promises about more U.S. manufacturing jobs and threats to get tough on trade.
But 87% of U.S. manufacturing jobs lost between 2000 and 2010 were from ...
Meet Sally, the salad-making robot that counts calories for you: Machine builds 1,000 different salads and can make a meal in just 60 seconds (but it
Alex Kirkpatrick
04 Apr 2017
Not realizing how many toppings are being added to your salad can make a once healthy meal more fattening than a hamburger.
Now, a California-based firm has developed a robot that dispenses measure...
Brexit Britain could replace migrant workers with robots | Bloomberg
Alex Kirkpatrick
03 Apr 2017
In Brexit Britain, robots are booting up to fill jobs held by European migrants as Prime Minister Theresa May’s government prepares to cut immigration.
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Drone complaints soar in the UK as concerns grow over snooping | The Guardian
Alex Kirkpatrick
03 Apr 2017
The number of incidents in the UK involving drones reported to police has increased more than twelve-fold over the past two years.
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Peter Stone: Robot Skill Learning: From the Real World to Simulation and Back | CMU RI Seminar
John Payne
02 Apr 2017
Link to video on YouTubeAbstract: “For autonomous robots to operate in the open, dynamically changing world, they will need to be able to learn a robust set of interacting skills. This talk begins b...
Humans must learn to coexist with robots to keep their jobs | iNews
Alex Kirkpatrick
01 Apr 2017
British workers must be trained in how to handle and program robots to prevent their jobs becoming redundant and the country’s economy being left behind, one of the UK’s leading experts in the fie...
British robot helping autistic children with their social skills | Reuters
Alex Kirkpatrick
01 Apr 2017
"This is nice, it tickles me," Kaspar the social robot tells four-year-old Finn as they play together at an autism school north of London. Kaspar, developed by the University of Hertfordshire, also si...
NASA’s shape shifting origami robot squeezes where others can’t | WIRED
Alex Kirkpatrick
01 Apr 2017
NASA MAY HAVE equipped its Mars Curiosity rover with an impressive array of scientific instruments, but the robot attaché’s size and $2.5-billion price tag give its operators ample reason to steer ...
This robot tentacle can easily grasp smooth objects | MIT Technology Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
30 Mar 2017
Do not be alarmed, but this disembodied robotic tentacle can gracefully grasp smooth objects or pass them to your puny human hand.
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Robots, drones help Japan’s builders out of labour crunch | Today
Alex Kirkpatrick
30 Mar 2017
TOKYO — Construction sites in Japan are enjoying a wave of automation amid an increasing shortage of labourers, with the introduction of robots to do the heavy lifting and drones that fly from above...
Domino’s will begin using robots to deliver pizzas in Europe | Bloomberg
Alex Kirkpatrick
29 Mar 2017
Starship Technologies, the London-based company that has created six-wheeled self-driving delivery robots, will begin taking customers Domino’s pizzas in Germany and the Netherlands.
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Donald Trump is being trolled by a disobedient robot on Twitter | The Telegraph
Alex Kirkpatrick
29 Mar 2017
Donald Trump has another political foe to worry about, with his latest adversary coming in the form of an insubordinate robot.
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Evidence that robots are winning the race for American jobs | New York Times
Alex Kirkpatrick
29 Mar 2017
Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans? Last year, two leading economists described a future in which humans come out ahead. But now they’ve declared a different winner: the robo...
IRobot CEO rolls out nonprofit, RISE, focused on eco-robots | Xconomy
Alex Kirkpatrick
28 Mar 2017
Co-founded by Angle and run by executive director John Rizzi, RISE is first going after the lionfish problem with a new robot, designed and built by a team of volunteers. But the broader goal of the o...
Elon Musk seen targeting human-computer link in new venture | NPR
Alex Kirkpatrick
28 Mar 2017
In the past, entrepreneur Elon Musk has described a "neural lace" that could add a symbiotic digital layer to the human brain. In the future, it seems, he'll try to build that device through a new com...
How A.I. captured a volcano’s changing lava lake | Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Alex Kirkpatrick
28 Mar 2017
One of our planet's few exposed lava lakes is changing, and artificial intelligence is helping NASA understand how.
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10 breakthrough technologies: Reinforcement learning | MIT Technology Review
Kassie Perlongo
28 Mar 2017
By experimenting, computers are figuring out how to do things that no programmer could teach them.
Availability: 1 to 2 years
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Uber resumes self-driving-vehicle program after Arizona accident | Reuters
Alex Kirkpatrick
27 Mar 2017
Driverless vehicles operated by Uber Technologies Inc will be back on the road in Tempe and Pittsburgh on Monday after one of its self-driving cars crashed in Arizona, the ride-hailing company said.
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Meet Astrobee, the adorable robot cube bound for the ISS | Popular Mechanics
Alex Kirkpatrick
27 Mar 2017
At the Intelligent Robotics Group at NASA Ames Research Center, engineers are working on a little robot cube that will be launched to the International Space Station later this year. The one-foot-cube...
Field Robot Event 2017, Harper Adams University, June 13-16
John Payne
19 Mar 2017
Link to Event WebsiteThe Field Robot Event is an international competition intended to promote the development of robotic systems for agriculture being held by the Engineering Department at Harper Ada...
Fury road: Did Uber steal the driverless future from Google? | BloomburgBusinessweek
Kassie Perlongo
18 Mar 2017
Inside the vicious patent fight over self-driving technology.
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Trump’s budget is awful if you’re a worker, great if you’re a robot | WIRED
Alex Kirkpatrick
17 Mar 2017
WHEN THE ROBOTS rise up, they won’t take your life. They’ll take your job, particularly those in fields primed for automation, like manufacturing, trucking, and customer service. Technologists, ec...
Robot eavesdrops on men and women to see how much they talk | New Scientist
Alex Kirkpatrick
17 Mar 2017
Experiments using a robotic head, called Furhat, aimed to uncover inequalities in people’s participation when working on a shared activity, and see if a robot could help redress the balance. They re...
ABB sells its first US-made robot | Advanced Manufacturing
Alex Kirkpatrick
16 Mar 2017
ABB has sold its first robot manufactured in the United States. The IRB 2600 robot is the first to be produced at the ABB Auburn Hills, Michigan, facility, and was sold by ABB Value Provider, CIM SYST...
Over the last 60 years, automation has totally eliminated just one US occupation | Quartz
Alex Kirkpatrick
16 Mar 2017
Automation often replaces human labor, but very rarely in the last sixty years has it eliminated an entire occupation. Only one of the 270 detailed occupations listed in the 1950 US Census has since b...
Lawsuit: Defective robot killed factory worker; human error to blame | Detroit Free Press
Alex Kirkpatrick
15 Mar 2017
Tragically, something went wrong in 2015, but Holbrook never saw it coming. A robot's arm malfunctioned one day, hitting and crushing Holbrook's head, killing her. The tragedy devastated her hus...
Google’s DeepMind makes AI program that can learn like a human | The Guardian
Alex Kirkpatrick
15 Mar 2017
Researchers have overcome one of the major stumbling blocks in artificial intelligence with a program that can learn one task after another using skills it acquires on the way. Developed by Google’s...
Beware emotional robots: Giving feelings to artificial beings could backfire, study suggests | Science
Kassie Perlongo
14 Mar 2017
Participants watched a scene play out in virtual reality and rated its eeriness.
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Intel’s $15 billion Mobileye buyout puts it in the autonomous car driver’s seat | MIT Technology Review
Kassie Perlongo
14 Mar 2017
The acquisition bags the chip maker a pivotal contender in the race to build robotic cars.
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These toaster-oven-size radios will help bring 5G to life | MIT Tech Review
Alex Kirkpatrick
13 Mar 2017
Within a few years, 5G networks could turbocharge your smartphone. But can they pass the tests cooked up by engineers at an office park in New Jersey?
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