by dankeelan | Jan 30, 2020 | Robots & Drones
For the roboticist who has everything, here’s something new: a soft robot hand that sweats. Designed to handle scenarios where long operating hours might lead to a robot overheating and its performance degrading, this three-fingered gripper stays cool by borrowing one...
by dankeelan | Jan 22, 2020 | Business, Robots & Drones
Back in August, we flagged a filing for you that we’d found interesting, one for a now 2.5-year-old, 40-person Redwood City, Calif.,-based startup called Bear Robotics that’s been developing robots to deliver food to restaurant customers. The filing listed a $35.8...
by dankeelan | Jan 15, 2020 | Featured, Robots & Drones
Researchers in the US have created the first living machines by assembling cells from African clawed frogs into tiny robots that move around under their own steam. One of the most successful creations has two stumpy legs that propel it along on its “chest”. Another...
by dankeelan | Jan 8, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Mapping, Robots & Drones
“Hey, I can see my house from up here!” It’s a joke so tired you’ll hear it from someone jumping on a trampoline, but that’s what came into my head as I banked a small turboprop airplane above my neighborhood in the new version of a revived classic, Microsoft Flight...
by dankeelan | Jan 8, 2020 | Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Robots & Drones
A drone flies over a potato field in Sinaloa, Mexico and informs a farmer 30 kilometres away that the humidity of the air around his crops is low. Meanwhile, a computer in San Diego, California, processes the data and calculates how much water the potatoes need. In...
by dankeelan | Jan 8, 2020 | Government, Robots & Drones, Work
In all likelihood, your co-workers pay taxes. But what happens if your boss replaces them with sophisticated software or dexterous machines—ones that perform the same tasks for less money (at least over the long run) and contribute nothing in payroll taxes? One...
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