Innovation DARPA is hosting an Olympic Games for bug-sized robots | Innovation & Feature Aug 15, 2018 DARPA is well known for big, expensive and frankly terrifying robots like Big Dog, but for its latest project it's thinking much smaller. The…
Entrepreneurship Xconomy: From Robots to Golf, Indy Group Gets Creative to Boost Women in Tech | Enterpreneurship Aug 15, 2018 Want create site? Find Free WordPress Themes and plugins.The tech industry’s efforts to recruit more girls and women to the field are still falling…
Robotics Robots in Depth with Andrew Graham | Robotics Aug 13, 2018 In this episode of Robots in Depth, Per Sjöborg speaks with Andrew Graham about snake arm robots that can get into impossible locations and do…
Robotics How to control robots with brainwaves and hand gestures | Robotics Aug 13, 2018 A system developed at MIT allows a human supervisor to correct a robot’s mistakes using gestures and brainwaves.Photo: Joseph DelPreto/MIT CSAIL By…
Robotics We now have soft robots with a sense of touch. But why? | Robotics Aug 12, 2018 What is the big deal with soft robots? It seems like pretty much every week, another robot crawls onto the scene, seemingly alive with “hands,” a…
Robotics Personalized “deep learning” equips robots for autism therapy | Robotics Aug 12, 2018 An example of a therapy session augmented with humanoid robot NAO , which was used in the EngageMe study. Tracking of limbs/faces was performed using…
Robotics Pacific Rim’s robots are less advanced than some of today’s real robots | Robotics Aug 12, 2018 Giant robots duke it out in the middle of major cities. Humans inside robotic exoskeletons control them just by thinking about it. The robots hack…
Artificial intelligence Industrial robots startup Gideon Brothers raises $765K led by TransferWise co-founder | AI Aug 12, 2018 Gideon Brothers, an ambitious startup out of Croatia that is building autonomous robots to put to work in warehouses and other industrial logistics,…
Robotics Japan is replacing its aging construction workers with robots | Robotics Aug 12, 2018 Japanese companies are facing a workforce automation problem. It’s not the kind you normally hear about, though — workers aren’t afraid they’ll lose…
Innovation Most Americans say they don’t want help from robots | Innovation & Feature Aug 12, 2018 But they probably will someday. These days, robots can do a range of tasks from cleaning the floor to guarding a building. But the majority of…