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Mercedes Plans More Drone Deliveries After 100 Perfect Flights
Mercedes-Benz, conducting the biggest test using drones to ship everyday items like ground coffee and cellphones, said the mini aircraft completed ... (2017)
Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers | Harvard
Artificial muscles give soft robots superpowers on Wyss Institute | By Lindsay Brownell (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — Soft robotics has made leaps and bound... (2017)
Robot Makers Fill Their War Chests in Fight Against Amazon - Bloomberg
Locus Robotics is raising serious cash in its bid to automate warehouses, bringing industry investment to $70 million this year. A few years ago... (2017)
The jobs of the future are already here – and some are really weird
Every discussion about the consequences of automation eventually has to lead to the same conclusion: Millions of human jobs are about to disappear ... (2017)
Ford Pilots New Exoskeleton Technology to Help Lessen Chance of Worker Fatigue, Injury
Called EksoVest, the wearable technology elevates and supports a worker’s arms while performing overhead tasks. (2017)
Can Ford Turn Itself Into a Tech Company?
New York Times, 2017: “Its very name was synonymous with the 20th-century economy. Now it’s trying to catch up with Silicon Valley on self-driving... (2017)
Robot-assisted surgery for kidney removal
- associated with longer operating times, higher cost A Stanford study of nearly 24,000 patients with kidney cancer concluded that robot-assiste... (2017)
Learning technologies could reduce automation’s economic threat | TechCrunch
Call it Workforce Training 2.0—or, in industry lingo, a new twist on corporate “learning and development.” It’s a growing market that could be worth.. (2017)
What the Industrial Revolution Really Tells Us About the Future of Automation and Work
2017, "As automation and artificial intelligence technologies improve, many people worry about the future of work. If millions of human workers no ... (2017)
The rise of robots in the German labour market
Recent research has shown that industrial robots have caused severe job and earnings losses in the US. This column explores the impact of robots on... (2017)
A Robot Makes a Mean Caesar Salad, but Will It Cost Jobs?
New York Times, 2017: "A new robot that tosses salads could reduce germs at salad bars. Its inventor says it won’t put people out of work. Others a... (2017)
You will lose your job to a robot—and sooner than you think
Automation helped bring on the age of Trump. What will AI bring? Sometime in the next 40 years, robots are going to take your job. I don’t car... (2017)
Robotic dogs: "Black Mirror" Metalhead (TV Episode 2017)
Metalhead: Directed by David Slade. With Maxine Peake, Jake Davies, Clint Dyer. In the post-apocalyptic landscape of the Scottish Moors, a woman at... (2024)
Opportunities and challenges in the development of exoskeletons for locomotor assistance | Nature Biomedical Engineering
Exoskeletons can augment the performance of unimpaired users and restore movement in individuals with gait impairments. Knowledge of how users inte... (2023)
These prosthetics break the mold with third thumbs, spikes and superhero skins | MIT Technology Review
Prosthetics designers are coming up with new ways to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin. (2023)
This Exoskeleton Uses AI to Help People Walk Faster With Less Energy
There’s a short learning curve, but on average the algorithm was able to effectively tailor itself to new users in just an hour. (2022)
iRobot's Roomba will soon be owned by Amazon, which raises privacy questions
In the development of ever smarter homes, Amazon could soon have access to the maps of our houses created and stored by Roomba vacuums. (2022)
They’re putting guns on robot dogs now - The Verge
It was only a matter of time before they started equipping robot dogs with guns. A quadrupedal machine built by Ghost Robotics has been outfitted w... (2021)
Where Are The Robotic Bricklayers? - by Brian Potter - Construction Physics
When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretchin... (2021)
Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million
Hyundai Motor Group has announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in the U.S robotics firm Boston Dynamics. (2021)
Kroger launches its first Ocado-powered ‘shed’, a massive, robot-filled fulfillment center in Ohio – TechCrunch
After inking a deal to work together almost three years ago, U.S. supermarket chain Kroger and U.K. online grocer Ocado today took the wraps off th... (2021)
A New York Lawmaker Wants to Ban Police Use of Armed Robots | WIRED
Officers’ use of Boston Robotics’ Digidog intensifies concerns about militarization of the police. (2021)
A possible new cancer treatment? Robots that attack tumors - Los Angeles Times
Chemotherapy and radiation can cause too much collateral damage to treat some brain tumors. Crumb-sized robots could be the solution. (2021)
Space startup Gitai raises $17.1M to help build the robotic workforce of commercial space – TechCrunch
Japanese space startup Gitai has raised a $17.1 million funding round, a Series B financing for the robotics startup. This new funding will be used... (2021)
DoorDash acquires salad-making robotics startup, Chowbotics – TechCrunch
DoorDash is expanding its robotic footprint into the kitchen. The delivery service is set to acquire Chowbotics, a Bay Area-based robotics best kno... (2021)
German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor
Exoskeleton technology has been one of the more interesting developments in the world of robotics: Instead of building machines that replace humans... (2020)
Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B
According to a report from The Korea Economic Daily, Hyundai Motor will acquire Boston Dynamics for $921 million (1 trillion won). (2020)
Robotics - Robots that can walk are now striding to market
They will be able to go where people can, but existing bots cannot (2020)
Scientists Are Printing Living “Xenobots” out of Biological Cells
Xenobots mark a major step forward in biological robots. The tiny, short-lived creatures are designed in a virtual world then 3D printed with livin... (2020)
Curious About Consciousness? Ask the Self-Aware Machines
Consciousness is a famously hard problem, so Hod Lipson is starting from the basics: with self-aware robots that can help us understand how we think. (2020)
The Truth About Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog
Robot dogs are here. But why? (2024)
I Challenged Boston Dynamics' Famous Atlas Robot
What can this human-like robot really do?Get an exclusive Surfshark Black Friday deal! Enter promo code CLEO to get up to 6 additional months for f... (2023)
How Robots Could Help Retailers Save Billions
Outfitted with cameras and sensors, autonomous inventory robots can verify price signs and look for out-of-stock items. Inventory is one of the big... (2023)
Why Japan has so many vending machines - Vox
What vending machines can teach you about this country Subscribe to the Vox Borders newsletter for weekly updates: http://www.vox.com/borders-email... (2018)
How Do Russian Bots Work? - Video - NYTimes.com
How do bots and trolls work to infiltrate social media platforms and influence U.S. elections? We take a closer look at these insidious online pest... (2018)
How the Tesla Model S is Made | Tesla Motors Part 1 (WIRED)
WIRED Published on Jul 16, 2013 If founder Elon Musk is right, Tesla Motors just might reinvent the American auto industry—with specialized rob... (2018)
What a driverless world could look like | Wanis Kabbaj | TED
What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we... (2018)
10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now) | a16z
a16z talk with a look at trends in technologies: “The personal computer S-curve gave us 1.5 billion PCs and 3 billion people online, and now the s... (2017)
Xenobots: It's not science fiction. Scientists have really made robots that reproduce : NPR
Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Harvard researcher Sam Kriegman about xenobots, the self-replicating robots he helped create. (2021)
The robots are coming for your office, with NYT’s Kevin Roose - Decoder with Nilay Patel | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from Decoder with Nilay Patel on Spotify. Nilay Patel sits down with New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose to discuss th... (2021)
The Rise Of The Machines - The Indicator from Planet Money | Podcast on Spotify
Listen to this episode from The Indicator from Planet Money on Spotify. In today's classic, the robots take over the show from Cardiff and Stacey a... (2021)
Flying cars: (podcast) “Free as a bird”, an episode from The Economist on Spotify
Travellers have long dreamed of soaring above traffic jams. Those dreams may come true, in the form of passenger-carrying drones. We look at the co... (2018)
Dani Clode Design - prosthetics design
An augmentation designer exploring the future body (2023)
API Reference | Dialogflow
Dialogflow is a Google-owned developer of human–computer interaction technologies based on natural language conversations. The company is best know... (2018)