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Teaching Drones How To Crash Safely

07/26/17, 05:40 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | drones, Technology Discussions, unmanned
Simon Parkin for MIT Technology Review: Drone delivery won't happen until the unmanned vehicle can master the emergency landing.

As California's labor shortage grows, farmers race to replace workers with robots

07/24/17, 05:37 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Agriculture
Geoffrey Mohan for LA Times: Now, the $47-billion agriculture industry is trying to bring technological innovation up to warp speed before it runs out of low-wage immigrant workers.

Robotics experts dismiss Musk's call for AI regulation

07/21/17, 05:46 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence, Collaborative Robots, deep learning
Steve LeVine for AXIOS: Musk, along with Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking, has been one of the leading voices warning of a dystopian, machine-led future if humans are not careful.

Elon Musk: 'Robots will be able to do everything better than us'

07/19/17, 05:30 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence, deep learning
Catherine Clifford for CNBC: "There certainly will be job disruption. Because what's going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us. ... I mean all of us,"

Professor Michael Gennert Looks Back at a First Decade of Robotics Engineering Program

07/17/17, 05:50 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | Training and Education
WPI.edu: The program's stature as a successful academic pioneer in the robotics field has grown worldwide

Is robotics the key to repairing societal infrastructure?

07/13/17, 12:34 PM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | service robots
Chris Middleton for Diginomica: If a country's national infrastructure is in disrepair - and most of them are - then could the robot revolution be the answer?

How a One-Man Team from California Won NASA's Space Robotics Challenge

07/12/17, 05:44 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | nasa, ros
Evan Ackerman for IEEE Spectrum: In NASA's Space Robotics Challenge, participants had to command a virtual Valkyrie robot to perform a series of repair tasks in a simulated Mars base hit by a dust storm.

New Army technology enables simultaneous multiple drone control

07/10/17, 05:38 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | drones, Military and Security
Kris Osborn for Defense Systems: "SCORCH is a system consisting of intelligent UAS autonomous behaviors and an advanced user interface that allows a single operator to effectively control up to three UAS simultaneously,"

Teaching Robots to 'Feel with Their Eyes'

07/07/17, 05:54 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | soft robotics, Technology Discussions, Training and Education
Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science: Burka hopes to build up a database of one thousand surfaces to help coach robots on how to identify objects and also to know what they're made of and how best to handle them.

Torc Robotics unveils self-driving system for consumer cars

07/06/17, 05:44 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | autonomous vehicles, self driving
Darrell Etherington for TechCrunch: Now Torc is setting its sights on the consumer car market, with a self-driving car project based on its decade of experience

Fastbrick signs a deal with Caterpillar to develop bricklaying robots

07/05/17, 06:45 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Construction
Jessica Sier for The Sydney Morning Herald: Fastbrick is building a commercial version of its robot bricklaying machine, Hadrian X, which will cost about $2 million when it goes into full production in 2019.

ETH zurich builds DFAB HOUSE using robots and 3D printers

07/03/17, 05:30 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | 3D Printing, Construction
DesignBoom.com: Built using a two-meter high construction robot, the machine works by moving autonomously on caterpillar tracks.

The one law of robotics: Humans must flourish

06/30/17, 06:20 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | Research and Reports, service robots, Technology Discussions
Pallab Ghosh for BBC News: "The thriving of people and communities needs to be put first, and we think Asimov's principles can be subsumed into that."

A Job Plan for Robots and Humans

06/29/17, 05:30 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | Jobs / Employment, Technology Discussions | Fetch Robotics
Tom Simonite for MIT Technology Review: Melonee Wise's of Fetch Robotics spoke with San Francisco bureau chief Tom Simonite.

Deepest Underwater Consumer Drone from Blueye Robotics Reveals Ocean Depths Previously Unseen by Non-Scientists

06/28/17, 05:38 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | drones, ROV, UAV
Blueye Pioneer Dives to 150 Meters; Robust, Stable HD Camera Delivers True Colors with Super-Clear Image Quality

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