tech, startups, internet
CES 2015 impressive reveals.
Someone made a roomba-looking vacuum that has an arm to move dirty socks. Follow the link for that video and nine others. ~ learn more
Tag: robots
under the microscope
Watch ‘ant-like’ robot swarms conquer obstacles and transport heavy loads.
“Scientists in South Korea have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times their size.” ~ learn more
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Finally, robots that can fold messy laundry.
“To paraphrase Moravec’s paradox, winning a game of chess or discovering a new drug represent “easy” problems for AI to solve, but folding a shirt or cleaning up a table requires solving some of the most difficult engineering problems ever […]
tech, startups, internet
Finally, robots that can fold messy laundry.
“To paraphrase Moravec’s paradox, winning a game of chess or discovering a new drug represent “easy” problems for AI to solve, but folding a shirt or cleaning up a table requires solving some of the most difficult engineering problems ever […]
tech, startups, internet
The next frontier of materials science.
“Two landmark publications came out today: one on the use of Google’s Deep Mind to simulate millions of new possible materials, the other describes and autonomous self driving robotic laboratory to synthesize the materials prediction by DeepMinds simulations.” ~ learn more
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Printed robots with bones, ligaments and tendons.
This is absolutely incredible. 3D printing keeps getting better. “For the first time, researchers have succeeded in printing a robotic hand with bones, ligaments and tendons made of different polymers using a new laser scanning technique.” ~ learn more
better doing
Do humans get lazier when robots help with tasks?
“People sometimes relax, letting their colleagues do the work instead. This is called “social loafing,” and it’s common where people know their contribution won’t be noticed or they’ve acclimatized to another team member’s high performance. Scientists at the Technical University […]
big ideas
Lunar operations.
“It could look something like this: in partnership with the US government, a private company — let’s call it Regolift MegaCorp — sends fuel-cell powered, tele-operated robots to the lunar poles to mine their icy regolith. There, they separate the […]
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What’s next for the moon?
“Robots—and then humans—are going back to the lunar surface. Here’s what they’ll be doing.” ~ learn more