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
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
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
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