Google is teaching computers to trip balls. Nah, not really. But it is reverse engineering neural networks, teaching the A.I. to spit back what it sees when it tries to sort through and recognise images, in order to better understand … Continue reading Roundup for June 18, 2015
James E. Young, an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba, has done a lot of interesting things with robots, from adding puppy tails to them to turning a Roomba into a mood ring, in order to better understand how … Continue reading Can’t Humans And Robots Just Get Along? An Interview with Prof. James E. Young.
Above: A screenshot of the first page of google image results for “productivity”, illustrating that no one has any idea how to illustrate the idea of “productivity.” As I mentioned on the About page, one of the things I’m interested … Continue reading Note 2: The Productivity Paradox
I wanted to highlight this great podcast from CBC’s The Current with Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of deep learning. He occasionally seems to woosh over host Anna Maria Tremonti’s head, but overall does a really nice job explaining some of … Continue reading Geoffrey Hinton on recent advances in deep learning
The Boston Globe’s Nidhi Subbaraman reports on Cambridge firm Soft Robotics’ attempt to conquer a new frontier for robot kind — sorting vegetables. Tech to make bots that are safer and more effective graspers are also part and parcel of … Continue reading Roundup for June 17, 2015
A trio of links today on 2015’s equivalent to S.P.E.C.T.R.E., Facebook: It’s using automation to keep its engineers engaged And now it’s using A.I. To recognize faces and predict which photos you ought to share. But even Wall Street types … Continue reading Roundup for June 16, 2015
She lives! The European Space Agency successfully landed an exploration bot, Philae, on a comet a few months back — only for the batteries to run out within days when it turned out the crater she was in was too … Continue reading Roundup for June 15, 2015
If you’re wondering what happened to all those stentorian-voiced filmstrip announcers that used to deliver stern warnings about personal hygiene to the schoolchildren of the 1950s, it turns out they’ve moved to Germany and they’re working for Bayer: But I’m … Continue reading Spotlight: Agriculture Bots
The New York Times does sex bots! Fifth in their excellent Robotica video series. The MIT team behind a miniature origami robot discuss the thinking behind their project with MIT News (video below) Forget Moishe’s or your brother in law: … Continue reading Roundup For June 12, 2015
As I mentioned in the about page, my hope in starting this blog was to not only take note of the progress and potential of these new technologies, but also to talk to the makers and the shakers that are … Continue reading Note 1: If this is a revolution, what kind of revolution is it?
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