#432876 Walking robots, a YouTube sensation, get ...

A robotics company known for its widely shared videos of nimble, legged robots opening doors or walking through rough terrain is preparing to sell some after years of research.[Read more…]

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#432698 Girl power: All-female teams compete at ...

Half a dozen teenage girls from Canada know exactly how to narrow the skills gap.[Read more…]

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#432691 Is the Secret to Significantly Longer ...

Once upon a time, a powerful Sumerian king named Gilgamesh went on a quest, as such characters often do in these stories of myth and legend. Gilgamesh had witnessed the death of his best friend, Enkidu, and, fearing a similar fate, went in search of immortality. The great king failed to find the secret of eternal life but took solace that his deeds would live well beyond his mortal years.
Fast-forward four thousand years, give or take a century, and […] Continue Reading…

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#432685 Inside TickTock’s Consumer Robot ...

Ryan Hickman, who co-founded the Cloud Robotics group at Google and was an early part of the Toyota Research Institute Product team, describes how his startup tried to make consumer home robots work[Read more…]

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#432681 Misty Robotics Builds on Developer ...

The Misty II personal robot is designed to do whatever you can program it to do, and more[Read more…]

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