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Soft Stretchy Sensors

07/27/17, 09:42 AM | Personal & Service Robots | Sensors and Circuits
When the sensor is integrated into a wearable device and placed across a joint, it is stretched when the joint moves. We can correlate the joint's movement and sensor's capacitance change in order to monitor motion.

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.

Open Board for 3D Gesture Control, Motion Capturing, Tracking and Robotics

07/27/17, 05:51 AM | Industrial Robotics, Personal & Service Robots | motion control
Action, gesture, motion, and robots can be kept under control through a wearable, small but powerful electronic board.

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 | Kayla Mathews - Contributing Author
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.

Artificial Intelligence Fever in Japan: 40000 people visited first Japan AI expo

07/20/17, 08:11 AM | Personal & Service Robots | ai, Tradeshows and Conferences
Though AI topics are not new to Japan and the companies promoting their products were not completely new; all of sudden a surge, huge interest in Artificial Intelligence among most of the mid aged workers, salary men in Japan has risen.

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 program's stature as a successful academic pioneer in the robotics field has grown worldwide

The Drone Racing League (DRL) Builds The Fastest Racing Drone

07/14/17, 05:40 AM | Unmanned & Other Topics | drones
DRL Sets the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM Title for the Fastest Ground Speed by a Battery-powered Remote-controlled Quadcopter

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