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The Future of Work

GE Healthcare's 3D Printing Incubator Is Liberating Engineers (And Much More)

Tomas Kellner
May 10, 2017
Hailing from the Outer Banks, a long, sandy necklace of islands hanging from North Carolina’s Atlantic coast, Jimmie Beacham knows something about witnessing history. When his grandfather, John, was a small boy, he watched one of the Wright brothers’ first attempts at flight in nearby Kitty Hawk, a feat that ultimately ended up changing how we live. Now Beacham himself is in the vanguard of a revolution, one that is changing how we design and make things. It’s called additive manufacturing, which includes technologies like 3D printing.
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
April 28, 2017
Physicians in Philadelphia have developed an artificial womb, researchers in England built an AI that can accurately predict the risk of heart disease, and MIT engineers designed a robotic 3D printer that can build a house. Once again, science is hitting home runs.
 

This Artificial Womb Could Save Premature Babies

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Robots

The Hardiman Strikes Back: The Age Of Robotic Snakes And Dexterous Exoskeletons Is Here

Tomas Kellner
April 18, 2017
Fifty years ago, GE engineer and robotics pioneer Ralph Mosher presented a groundbreaking paper at the Automotive Engineering Congress in Detroit. “Man and machine can be combined into an intimate, symbiotic unit that will perform essentially as one wedded system,” he wrote. “The adaptive, reflex control of man can be transmitted directly to a mechanism so that the mechanism responds as though it were a natural extension of the man.
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
April 07, 2017
Beacham first encountered augmented reality — which overlays graphics and video over the physical world — a decade ago in a science magazine. But the technology was still expensive and complicated, so he filed the idea away. He next ran into it two years ago at GE Global Research in Schenectady, New York. By then, kids all over the world had been logging thousands of hours on Microsoft’s Xbox and Kinect. A young GE researcher, Matteo Bellucci, who now works for GE’s Additive business, showed the technology and its AR applications to Beacham’s team during a regular monthly technology review.
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The Vanguard

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 31, 2017
A paralyzed man used a brain chip to move his arm, a supercomputer is getting good at spotting depression, and scientists found a way to make fast-growing cancer self-destruct. Read on and finish the week on a positive note.
 

 

No More Wishful Thinking

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Robotics

Ready For Take Off: UPS Is Testing Residential Delivery By Drone

Mark Wallace
March 20, 2017

UPS’ latest drone test, which successfully delivered a package from the roof of a company truck, shows that the gap between vision and reality is closing. "There’s definitely a lot to learn and plenty of reason for excitement about drones," says Mark Wallace, UPS Senior Vice President of Global Engineering and Sustainability.

 

 
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 17, 2017
A Brooklyn startup built a 3D printing plant operated by a robot, the U.S. Navy says that the singularity could arrive “as soon as 2035” and mathematicians in England proved that you will never be absolutely cool. (But hey — we think you’re cool enough if you read our column!)
 

 

Printing A Prototype Of The Future?

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Innovation

5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
March 10, 2017

A man-made power island in the middle of the North Sea that could supply electricity for 80 million people, a robot that could read your mind and spot you noticing it made a mistake, and a DNA-based computer that grows as it computes? Go figure!
 

 

This Is What We Call A Power Island!

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Robotics

How Robots Could Help Chronically Ill Kids Attend School

Mark Warschauer
Veronica Newhart
March 10, 2017

Students with chronic illness often get only a few hours of education a week. Telepresence robots could let them participate fully in classroom and school activities, write Veronica Ahumada Newhart and Mark Warschauer from the University of California, Irvine's School of Education.

 

 
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ai

Robots Are Coming To The Cubicle

Ravnit Kohli
January 27, 2017

Robotic process automation will soon aid workers not just in factories but in cubicles. Whether it’s making a PowerPoint deck or on-boarding a client, automation opportunities through artificial intelligence can streamline time-intensive, repeatable tasks, writes Ravnit Kohli, senior director with Synechron. But office workers aren’t going away anytime soon.

 

 
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