Mar 12, 2020 | Defense, Featured, Robots & Drones
The U.S. Navy is in the process of developing armed robot submarines, which could theoretically be used to kill without direct human oversight. The project is being developed by the Office of Naval Research under the name CLAWS, although it has not been made clear...
Mar 5, 2020 | Agriculture, Robots & Drones
It’s a cloudy day in early October and I’m circling my rented Jeep Wrangler around a maze of industrial buildings in Hamilton, Ohio. Hamilton is a small city 30 miles north of Cincinnati with a population of just over 62,000 people. Like much of Ohio,...
Mar 5, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Robots & Drones
Rutgers engineers have created a tabletop device that combines a robot, artificial intelligence and near-infrared and ultrasound imaging to draw blood or insert catheters to deliver fluids and drugs. Their most recent research results, published in the...
Mar 5, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Healthcare, Robots & Drones
Disinfecting robots, smart helmets, thermal camera-equipped drones and advanced facial recognition software are all being deployed in the fight against Covid-19 at the heart of the outbreak in China. President Xi Jinping has called on the country’s tech sector...
Feb 27, 2020 | Business, Robots & Drones, Work
In a test kitchen in a corner building in downtown Pasadena, Flippy the robot grabbed a fryer basket full of chicken fingers, plunged it into hot oil — its sensors told it exactly how hot — then lifted, drained and dumped maximally tender tenders into a waiting...
Feb 27, 2020 | Defense, Featured, Government, Robots & Drones
The US Department of Defense budget papers for fiscal year 2021 announced a two-year ‘production pause in FY 2021 and FY 2022’ in the Triton program. The budget documents don’t state what is behind the pause. There are a range of potential factors, including finding...
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