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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
Carlos Haertel
January 05, 2018
"A robot in California is acting like a total baby, researchers in the U.K. smuggled a tumor-tracing virus into patients’ brains, and plants in Australia are breeding like rabbits. We’d say 2018 is off to a promising start.
 

Going Viral
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Drivers Wanted: Why Engineers Want To Climb Into The Cockpits Of Tiny Robot Vehicles

Stephane Fitch
January 02, 2018

"Sci-fi writers love to scare readers with tales of robots becoming sentient and taking over the world. The reality is a little more comical. Consider the self-driving Las Vegas bus that 2 hours into its maiden voyage failed to avoid another truck whose human mistakenly backed into it.

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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
December 23, 2017
A Ukrainian startup is 3D-printing tiny homes, Israeli researchers helped paralyzed rats walk again and engineers in Japan built a robot that rolls — or rather crawls — with the punches. We find all this progress deeply moving, don’t you?
 

Robot Carpenters

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Robotics

Mr. Robot: Rodney Brooks Says Gentler, More Aware 'Cobots' Are Coming To Make Our Lives Easier

Tomas Kellner
November 17, 2017
Few people have done more to bring humans and robots together than Rodney Brooks. Two decades ago, the Australian inventor, mathematician and former MIT professor founded iRobot, the company that designed Roomba, a line of robots that zip around homes and clean dirty floors. Today, he’s still dreaming up clever ways to make robots do our dirty work — but in factories rather than living rooms.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
November 17, 2017
This week we watched a robot do a backflip, marveled about an implantable device that can help the brain form memories, and learned about an X-ray-reading AI that outperformed Stanford doctors in diagnosing pneumonia. We are starting to feel sorry for sci-fi writers.
 

 

Brain Memory Implants
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
November 03, 2017
Breaking news about smartphone screens, programmable virus-like particles that doctors could one day use to fight disease, and clothes with memory — if this week's roundup of discoveries is any indication, science is clearly in fashion.
 

No Chip on Their Shoulder

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A Snake On A Plane: This Long-Arm Robot Will Help Fix Aircraft Engines

Maggie Sieger
October 30, 2017
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When Hong Kong started planning a road tunnel 50 meters (164 feet) below sea level in 2012, local engineers had to find a way to keep the cutters in the massive boring shield in shape and the blades sharp enough to cut stone. Workers would squeeze between the shield, which is 17 meters in diameter, and the living rock to inspect the business end of the machine — a tight spot the Hong Kong team wanted to avoid as much as possible.

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The Wingmen: GE Welders Band Together In New Career As Robot Programmers

Bruce Watson
September 29, 2017
Ice Man, Viper, Goose, Hollywood. Any fan of ‘80s movies will recognize the nicknames of the competitive pilots in the movie Top Gun. But those are also the names of four welding robots being programmed by a group of guys who are every bit as competitive, and every bit as supportive, as the pilots in Top Gun.
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
September 22, 2017
Researchers at DARPA flew a helicopter with a tablet, a team led by MIT used sound waves to analyze blood for cancer, and scientists in Texas developed artificial skin for robots that could give them a sense of touch. We can't stop the feeling that science is making progress.
 

Liquid Biopsy

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The Future of Work

Don’t Fear Automation Technology — Embrace It

Aidan Cunniffe
August 30, 2017

What you’ve heard is true: The robots are coming to take our jobs, writes technologist and entrepreneur Aidan Cunniffe. But instead of fearing our machine counterparts, should we be thanking them? In the future, artificial intelligence and automation technology will begin to take over in a big way, transforming the entire way we do business. In fact, that future is closer.

 

 
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