by dankeelan | Dec 12, 2019 | Autonomous Vehicles, Business, Featured, Robots & Drones
The world’s largest retailer said Tuesday it has teamed up with Nuro, a Mountain View, California-based autonomous vehicle startup, to pilot grocery deliveries in Houston. Nuro, founded in 2016, has already raised $1 billion in funding, according to...
by dankeelan | Dec 5, 2019 | Featured, Jobs, Robots & Drones
The use of robots in U.S. workplaces has more than doubled since the Great Recession, but the impact has hit certain areas of the country — and segments of workers — more than others. A recent report from The Century Foundation found Midwestern states such as...
by dankeelan | Nov 20, 2019 | Defense, Government, Robots & Drones
China is exporting drones that it advertises as having lethal autonomy to the Middle East, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday. It’s the first time that a senior Defense official has acknowledged that China is selling drones capable of taking life with...
by dankeelan | Nov 14, 2019 | Featured, Machine Learning, Robots & Drones
Microsoft Corp. and technology rivals spend a lot of time talking about machine learning. Now Microsoft is talking about something called machine teaching. No, the software maker doesn’t plan to send robots into classrooms. In a world where factories...
by dankeelan | Nov 7, 2019 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots & Drones
Sub-Saharan Africa has, on average, the worst healthcare in the world, according to the World Bank. It accounts for nearly a quarter of all disability and death caused by disease worldwide, yet has only 1% of global health expenditure and 3% of the world’s...
by dankeelan | Nov 7, 2019 | Healthcare, Robots & Drones
Scientists have developed a “paper bird” robot that is small enough to fit inside the human body to perform operations. Built by researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute in Zurich, the microscopic robots use tiny, programmable magnets for it to be...
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