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Quadcopter Test Platform

This customized quadcopter will be used as a test platform for sensors, motors and imaging tools. Using GPS, an FPV ...
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Sumobot

I am coaching a school robotics team at Blue School in Manhattan. The students have some coding experience, some building ...
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“Arena” is amazing

As a Geographer and Photographer (and as a Human) I was fascinated by this short film, watching the patterns in ...
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Learning Empathy through Design Thinking

As a consultant and teacher in an afterschool program, the League of Young Inventors, in Brooklyn, NY, I help develop ...
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The latest news relating to robotics curated from the people, institutions, and brands I follow online.

Artificial Intelligence

The Pentagon now has 5 principles for artificial intelligence
by Nathan Strout on February 25, 2020 at 7:19 am
The Department of Defense now has broad principles outlining ethical use of artificial intelligence by the military. DoD Chief Information Officer …
Exclusive: World leaders just decided that the next step in AI is augmenting humans
on July 6, 2019 at 11:16 pm
It has already started. Think that human augmentation is still decades away? Think again. This week, government leaders met with experts and innovators …
McCann Japan Finally Hires a Robot as Creative Director
by Patrick Coffee on April 18, 2019 at 3:45 pm
Today in Press Releases That Should Be Taken Very Seriously, McCann Japan has finally turned the wildest dreams of holding company executives into …
How to become a machine learning engineer: A cheat sheet
by Alison DeNisco Rayome on April 16, 2019 at 5:12 am
If you are interested in pursuing a career in AI and don’t know where to start, here’s your go-to guide for the best programming languages and skills …
Artificial Intelligence Regulation May Be Impossible
by Michael Spencer on March 3, 2019 at 7:58 am
Artificial intelligence is a tool humanity is wielding with increasing recklessness. We say it’s for our common good with machine learning hype equal to business profits. But what happens when we don’t have the code of ethics, laws, government accountability, corporate transparency and capability …

Robotics

See Spot Run
by Jon Markman on October 10, 2019 at 5:34 am
Spot is getting ready to run with the big dogs. Spot is Boston Dynamics’ first major robot to be released into the wild, according to a September 24 report by the Verge. Engineers at the robotics research company see this as a new platform for developers. Spot has four articulated legs, an …
Exclusive: Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs
by Jeffrey Dastin on May 13, 2019 at 1:45 pm
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders. The company started adding technology to a handful of warehouses in recent years, which scans goods coming down a conveyor belt and envelops them seconds …
Apple’s secret lab where robots pull apart iPhones to invent ‘future of recycling’ revealed
by Sean Keach, on April 18, 2019 at 3:45 pm
Apple has unveiled a brand new “secret lab” that aims to invent the future of recycling. The sci-fi facility in Texas will use artificial intelligence and a squadron of robots to rip apart iPhones – all in a bid to save the planet. It’s called the Material Recovery Lab, and has been set up for …
Lego’s Newest Set Lets Kids Build Robots—and Confidence
by Brian Barrett on April 3, 2019 at 4:01 am
Memories of middle school likely conjure up all sorts of thoughts and emotions. “Productive STEM learning” is probably low on the list. But on …
Watch a Human Try to Fight Off Boston Dynamics’ Door-Opening Robot Dog
by Wired on March 17, 2019 at 6:21 am
Hey, remember that dog-like robot, SpotMini, that Boston Dynamics showed off last week, the one that opened a door for its robot friend? Well, the …