#433657 Brad Porter, VP of Robotics at Amazon, ...

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Android

Amazon's chief roboticist discusses the latest advances in the field and how his team is using machine learning to make its robots smarter[Read more…]

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#433655 First-Ever Grad Program in Space Mining ...

Posted on September 27, 2018 by Android

Maybe they could call it the School of Space Rock: A new program being offered at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) will educate post-graduate students on the nuts and bolts of extracting and using valuable materials such as rare metals and frozen water from space rocks like asteroids or the moon.
Officially called Space Resources, the graduate-level program is reputedly the first of its kind in the world to offer a course in the emerging field of space mining. […] Continue Reading…

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#433646 Was This Man a Bronze-Age Cyborg? His ...

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Android

Treasure hunters in Switzerland have unearthed a hand-some artifact: a 3,500-year-old bronze hand outfitted with a gold cuff, Swiss archaeologists announced last week.[Read more…]

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#433636 The Hunt for Robot Unicorns

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Android

The robotics industry is rapidly evolving and expanding—who will be the next robot unicorns?[Read more…]

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#433634 This Robotic Skin Makes Inanimate ...

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Android

In Goethe’s poem “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” made world-famous by its adaptation in Disney’s Fantasia, a lazy apprentice, left to fetch water, uses magic to bewitch a broom into performing his chores for him. Now, new research from Yale has opened up the possibility of being able to animate—and automate—household objects by fitting them with a robotic skin.
Yale’s Soft Robotics lab, the Faboratory, is led by Professor Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, and has long investigated the possibilities associated with new kinds of […] Continue Reading…

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