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Lyft says all of its self-driving electric cars will be powered by ‘100% renewable energy’ | The Verge
Lyft likes to set lofty goals for itself. Last year, one of the ride-hail company’s founders went on record predicting that “a majority” of Lyft’s trips will be in self-driving cars by 2021. N...
15 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Waymo retires its cute self-driving car in favor of minivans | The Verge
Waymo is done driving around the cute, steering-wheel-free autonomous cars that were introduced by Google back in 2014. In a blog post this afternoon, Waymo leaders write that time has come to “reti...
14 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
IISc Bangalore scientists are experimenting with drone seed-bombing, and hope to plant a forest | Factor Daily
“I’m basically from that area (Gauribidanur in Karnataka); son of a farmer, came to academia… keen to bring back my younger days, when the river used to flow for three to four months a year. I n...
14 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Smart jacket and VR headset let you pilot a drone with your body | New Scientist
I feel half-superhero, half-idiot. The jacket I’m wearing is letting me fly a drone around a virtual university campus just by spreading my arms and moving my body from side to side – like a kid p...
12 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Drone league races toward another $20 million raise | Forbes
The Drone Racing League (DRL) has announced the closing of a $20 million Series B round of financing, bringing the total amount raised to $32 million. The new round of financing was led by Sky, Libert...
12 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Self-driving car angels protect you from yourself | WIRED
ON A FINE day in a parking lot outside Boston, a man holding a smartphone steps in front of a 2015 Prius. The driver keeps pressing the accelerator. But a bunch of electronics hacked into the car brin...
10 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Why Google wanted to sell — and Softbank wanted to buy — Boston Dynamics, which makes crazy robots | LA Times
Boston Dynamics’ robots can lurch like a human, sprint on all fours like a canine and navigate around small spaces like a spider. Though the machines look like sci-fi villains, Google once saw in th...
10 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Chinese exam authorities use facial recognition, drones to catch cheats | Reuters
Chinese education authorities have gone high-tech to catch cheaters as millions of high-school students take their "gaokao", the annual university entrance exam seen as key to landing a lucrative whit...
08 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Honda wants level 4 self-driving cars by 2025 | The Drive
Honda is the latest automaker to commit to an ambitious self-driving car goal. It wants cars with SAE Level 4 autonomy on the road by 2025, CEO Takahiro Hachigo announced at a media event in Japan.
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08 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
AI summit aims to help world’s poorest | Nature
In the world’s wealthiest neighbourhoods, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are starting to steer self-driving cars down the streets, and homeowners are giving orders to their smart voice-control...
07 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
I would spend $10K to furnish my apartment with MIT’s robot furniture | The Verge
Back in 2014, MIT debuted CityHome, a solution for tiny living spaces with the ability to pack several home necessities into a single, movable modular unit. Today, the concept — now renamed Ori Syst...
07 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
A rocket-propelled miniature robot for planetary exploration | IEEE Spectrum
In terms of overall bang for your buck, solid-fuel rockets are pretty great: They’re dead simple, very reliable, and offer respectable efficiency in a very small form factor, as long as you’re pre...
06 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Lyft to work with Boston driverless car company | Boston Globe
NuTonomy, a small Boston startup which makes software for self-driving cars, has launched a research and development partnership with San Francisco’s Lyft Inc., the second-largest ride-hailing compa...
06 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Self-driving cars could be terrible for traffic — here’s why | Business Insider
Self-driving cars might make your future commute a lot more pleasant, but they won't eliminate traffic.
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05 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Banned from the US? There’s a robot for that | WIRED
TWO TELEPRESENCE ROBOTS roll into a human-computer interaction conference. Sounds like the beginning of a very nerdy joke, but it really happened (#2017). A few weeks ago in Denver, Colorado, a robot ...
05 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Watch a Navy robot submarine launch a drone | Popular Science
On the water’s surface, a robot talks to an underwater robot and tells it to launch a flying robot. Together, the three autonomous machines scouted for the U.S. Navy in a demonstration, showcasing a...
03 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Self-driving cars will add $7 trillion a year to global economy, says Intel | The Telegraph
Self-driving cars will revolutionise the way we travel, work and live and create a $7 trillion-a-year industry by 2050, according to Intel.
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03 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Robots wielding water knives are the future of farming | WIRED
JUST AFTER DAWN in the Salinas Valley south of San Francisco, a raucous robot rolls through a field spitting clouds of vapor. It’s cutting lettuce heads with water knives—super-high-pressure beams...
01 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Incredibly soothing robot makes towers of balanced stones | IEEE Spectrum
Building things with robots is a nice idea, especially if robots are doing what they’re best at: predictable, repetitive tasks like you get with bricklaying. When humans build structures, however, w...
01 June 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
BlessU-2 is a robot priest that will forgive your sins | Popular Mechanics
To be fair, there are human priests in Wittenberg, too, but the Protestant church in Hesse and Nassau recently built a robot priest to give blessings as part of a celebration of the 500th anniversary ...
30 May 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Robots may help defuse demographic time bomb in Japan, Germany | Bloomberg
Japan and Germany may be sitting on a ticking demographic time bomb where aging populations begin to drag down economic growth. Good thing they’re also prime candidates for robot revolutions.
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30 May 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Here’s why Ford is panicking in self-driving cars: Alphabet is years ahead of everybody | CNBC
The recent CEO shuffle at Ford suggests it's getting serious about self-driving cars: On Monday, it promoted its head of "Smart Mobility," Jim Hackett, to the CEO role. But statistics show that Ford -...
25 May 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Meet the most nimble fingered robot yet | MIT Tech Review
A dexterous multi-fingered robot practiced using virtual objects in a simulated world, showing how machine learning and the cloud could revolutionize manual work.
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25 May 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Waltzing robot teaches beginners how to dance like a pro | New Scientist
Got no one to dance with? Not to worry – you might soon be gliding through the moves, thanks to a robotic instructor designed to teach humans how to dance. The robot’s designers had already create...
24 May 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Robot police officer goes on duty in Dubai | BBC News
Dubai Police have revealed their first robot officer, giving it the task of patrolling the city's malls and tourist attractions. People will be able to use it to report crimes, pay fines and get infor...
24 May 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Forget Tesla, Google’s self-driving Waymo business is the future of cars | The Telegraph
Forget Tesla as the future of road transport, Google’s Waymo is the way to go, according to Morgan Stanley, whose analysts think the self-driving car business could be worth at least $70bn.
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23 May 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Intel’s Euclid robot dev Kit launches May 31 | PC Mag
Intel wants Euclid to be the brain, eyes, and communication device at the heart of new robot projects.
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23 May 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
Hopkins grad students imagine a future in which robots can do just about anything | Johns Hopkins University
The player isn't David Beckham or Cristiano Ronaldo—it's a small, blue EduMIP mobile robot. And it's not the final moments of the World Cup. Instead, it's a robotics demonstration in a lab on the ca...
18 May 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
The surprising repurcussions of making AI assistants sound human | WIRED
ASK ALEXA ABOUT the weather, and it’ll tell you it’s sunny and 75 in a pleasant monotone. Prompt it to tell you a joke, and it’ll offer a pun in its signature staccato. Suggest that it sing a so...
18 May 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
San Francisco could ban sidewalk delivery robots | SF Gate
Delivery robots, a sci-fi idea that recently entered real-world testing, would be banned from San Francisco sidewalks under legislation Supervisor Norman Yee introduced on Tuesday.
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17 May 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
