Roundup for June 17, 2015
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
Roundup for June 16, 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
Roundup for June 15, 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
Roundup For June 12, 2015
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
Roundup For June 11, 2015
It definitely says something about the zeitgeist when even the glossies are getting all existentialist on you, but such is the case with Vanity Fair UK, who are co-sponsoring a Digital Summit today with pundit-mongers Intelligence Squared. The main panel topic … Continue reading Roundup For June 11, 2015
Roundup for June 10, 2015
Links of the day: An Open Letter on the Digital Economy — “Will robots eat our jobs?” Asks a group of academic and Silicon Valley bigwigs. “Uh….maybe? So we should scramble to rearrange our whole society first” they answer. (More … Continue reading Roundup for June 10, 2015
Science Bots: Stanford’s Fruit Fly Vacuum
One of the things I’m most interested in in creating this blog is the the opportunity to look at all the different ways that advanced computing/A.I. are affecting the economy — mostly when people think robots they think “factory”, whether … Continue reading Science Bots: Stanford’s Fruit Fly Vacuum
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