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Interview with Shell Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Team ARGGONAUTS

08/15/17, 08:10 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | competition, ocean

We are building two types of animals: one animal which runs at the water surface (the "water strider") and one which goes down (the "great diver"). These pairs are the basic units of our system.

How Robots Using Amazon Alexa Could Help Injured People Be More Mobile at Home

08/11/17, 05:58 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | amazon, Exoskeleton, Health Robotics

Barb Darrow for Fortune: A Canadian-American robotics company is turning to the popular Amazon Alexa-Echo combo to help people with spinal or lower-body injuries be more mobile and autonomous in their homes.

Why Co-Parenting With Telepresence Robots Could Be a Fantastic Idea

08/09/17, 05:42 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | telepresence

Heather Knight for IEESpectrum: The Beam remote presence system, from Suitable Technologies, allows you to "beam in" and visit family members from anywhere. Social roboticist Heather Knight argues that such technology could become a valuable co-parenting tool.

SMART Parking

08/03/17, 12:35 PM | Unmanned & Other Topics | parking

The main target is to get the traffic and the parking under control, calm the traffic on the square, inform drivers where they can park the car, and send them to the parking place directly.

In Search of a Lost Veteran

08/01/17, 11:53 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | ocean, ROV, sea | maxon precision motors

The largest submarine of WWII has been sitting on the bottom of the ocean off the Japanese coast for 70 years. Researchers finally found the lost wreck with the aid of an underwater robot - and Swiss drive technology.

Kaboom! Russian Drone With Thermite Grenade Blows Up a Billion Dollars of Ukranian Ammo

07/31/17, 05:21 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones

Kyle Mizokami for Popular Mechanics: A drone carrying a grenade infiltrated an ammunition dump in the Ukraine, setting off an explosion that caused an astounding billion dollars worth of damage.

Be Polite to Machines!

07/27/17, 09:34 AM | Personal & Service Robots , Unmanned & Other Topics | ai, Opinions and Advice | maxon precision motors

Machines won't be receptive to emotional, snide, impetuous, plaintive, vague or rambling communication. The algorithms will gently correct our moods and keep inquiring, relentlessly reasonable - or push the matter off to be dealt with later because they're not getting a useful answer from us.

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.

Autonomous Driving Technology

07/25/17, 08:07 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | ai, autonomous vehicles

We believe three components are critical for turning self-driving cars into a mass product: power-efficient hardware, optimized algorithms and a solid regulatory environment. While none of these components are fully ready at this stage, competition and advances in technology are speeding the process for the first two.

RPA - The Small and Medium Businesses Challenge

07/25/17, 08:06 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | RPA

RPA does have impactful potential for SMB companies but the analysis and application needs to a lot more granular and explicit about avenues of costs savings beyond head-count reductions.

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.

Waymo Is Officially Testing Self-Driving Trucks

07/20/17, 08:14 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | autonomous vehicles

Recent research by companies like Waymo are paving the way for others and their own work, and it won't be long before self-driving trucks are on the road once and for all.

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,"

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.

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