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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,"

Human Locomotion, Robotic Exoskeleton and Prostheses

07/18/17, 08:29 AM | Personal & Service Robots | Exoskeleton, Technology Discussions
Why is it so difficult to make walking more efficient in humans? There are a few challenges. People are highly complex, in the dynamics of our movements, in our hundreds of muscles and tendons, and in our wildly complex nervous systems.

The Robots are Coming

07/18/17, 08:28 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | book review, business, futurist
Over the next five years automation will impact sectors of the economy that have been insulated from change by social norms or regulatory barriers to entry. This will occur because technological solutions are readily available but not yet deployed.

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 programs 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 countrys national infrastructure is in disrepair - and most of them are - then could the robot revolution be the answer?

Artificial Intelligence and Skynet

07/13/17, 08:50 AM | Personal & Service Robots | ai, Analysis and Trends | Len Calderone - Contributing Author
An intelligent yet evil operating system connected to nearly every device we use on a daily basis. Seems like science-fiction-but are we starting to live in this kind of world?

Toyota Research Institute Invests in Intuition Robotics to Develop ElliQ

07/13/17, 08:50 AM | Personal & Service Robots | Business Development
ElliQ, the active aging companion, is an AI-driven social robot that keeps older adults active, engaged and connected to family and friends, and helps them overcome the complexity of the digital world.

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.

Borrowing from Nature: Los Angeles-Based Robotics Company Brings IoT and Smart Home Outdoors

07/11/17, 08:56 AM | Personal & Service Robots | architecture
SUNFLOWER is an autonomous robotic shade that tracks the sun, connecting you to the IoT, and the smart home ecosystem outdoors through AI integration.

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
Penns 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 theyre 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."

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