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Two Brains, A Computer, And Lots Of Coffee: How A Pair Of GE Engineers Took NASA By Storm

Bruce Watson
August 02, 2017
Imagine a storm whipping across the Martian desert, blasting everything in its path. When the wind dies down, a robot slowly ventures out of a habitat station and into the dusty aftermath, picking its way around rocks and debris. It assembles a solar panel and adjusts an antenna, providing energy to the station and strengthening its connection to Earth. Then it heads back inside where it detects a leak and patches it, making the room safe for human inhabitants.
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Robotics

Dumpster Diving Robots: Using AI For Smart Recycling

Mary Catherine Oconnor
July 11, 2017

Recycling facilities use robotic sorting stations and object-recognition technology to identify and put garbage in its proper place.

 

 

Filled with intricate mazes of high-speed conveyor belts carrying yesterday’s garbage, high-tech recycling centers use sophisticated sensors to sort plastic from paper from aluminum. While this technology may streamline sorting, it’s not smart or nimble enough to finish the job.

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Robotics

Sound The Alarm: Robots Are Disrupting (Far Too Few) Jobs

Robert D Atkinson Information Technology And Innovation Foundation
John Wu
June 19, 2017
It has become an article of faith that workers today are experiencing almost unprecedented levels of labor-market disruption and insecurity: Robots are automating factory jobs, kicking lunch-pail workers into the unemployment line. Taxi drivers are being displaced by Uber. Artificial intelligence is even taking over some of the tasks that lawyers and doctors used to do.
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

June 17, 2017
Space flight triggered amazing changes to a bunch of flatworms. Mosquitoes that carry life-threatening diseases may have met their match in a fungus engineered to sting like a scorpion. And a new drone can scoot around the world as well as any roach can. Nature has nothing on these creatures!
 

Out-Of-This-World-Worm Grows Two Heads
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 09, 2017
Engineers in the U.S. built a tiny cyber-backpack that allows them to control a dragonfly in flight, their colleagues at MIT equipped a robot with sensors that gave it a sense of touch and their colleagues in Rhode Island and China designed a heat-resistant ceramic that can be squished like a marshmallow but survive temperatures up to 800 degrees Celsius. That’s hot!
 

 

Cyborg Dragonfly Takes Flight

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ai

To Really Help US Workers, We Should Invest In Robots

Nikolaus Correll
May 22, 2017
America’s manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization.
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Samantha Shaddock
May 19, 2017
Scientists at Georgia Tech have designed collision-proof drones and autonomous mini blimps that can detect “hesitant stares and eager smiles,” their peers at Princeton University have developed a technology that purifies water by injecting it with CO2 gas and researchers in Holland are using 3D-printed implants to correct eye defects in children. We see progress.
 

The Swarm Is Getting Smarter
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STEM

It Shoots, It Scores! The FIRST Robotics Competition Inspires the Next Generation Of Engineers

Bruce Watson
May 15, 2017
Coach Doug Wildes knows that no matter how hard you train, sometimes the difference between winning and losing comes down to a toss of the ball. Even when it’s a robot doing the tossing.
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
May 12, 2017
Engineers in Illinois found a new way to kill killer bacteria, a team in Pittsburgh made a material that can turn pretty much anything into a touchscreen, and researchers in Minnesota 3D printed stretchable electronic skin for robots. This is what we call palpable progress.
 

 

Robots With Human Touch

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Robotics

Why Making Robots That Can Work With Their Hands Is Harder Than You Think

Taskin Padir
May 10, 2017

For robots to be most useful when working alongside humans, we'll have to figure out how to make robots that can literally lend us a hand when our own two are not enough, writes Taskin Padir of Northeastern University.

 

 
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