China is suffering a severe shortage of qualified, licensed UAV pilots and the country's Civil Aviation Administration isn't sitting idly by spinning their whee-, er, propellers.
Scientists unveil a ‘mother’ robot that is able to autonomously build and evaluate its own offspring. Using the results Scientists in the UK unveil a ‘mother’ robot that is able to autonomously build and evaluate its own children. Using the results of that evaluation, it can then design and produce further generations each with increasingly advanced performance. Survival of the fittest has come to the machines, for better or worse.
Meet the new mind-controlled exoskeleton developed by researchers in Germany and Korea. The success of this innovation may well revolutionize the lives of the disabled everywhere.
On the heels of ephemeral social networking apps like Snapchat allowing our messaging to disappear within
seconds after posting, comes another on the opposite end of the
spectrum. This one proposes online-life-everlasting with digital
immortality. The new social network called ‘Eter9’
uses artificial intelligence to scan your posts - learn what makes you
tick . . .
The world of 3-D printing has made it possible for the economically-challenged to afford the cost of prosthetic limbs. Meet Nilay Mehta, a 17-year-old high school student from California who in his own special way is lending a helping hand to the world of the disabled.
Electric vehicles are easy to charge but Elon Musk, the visionary CEO of Tesla Motors, wants to make the chore even simpler. Tesla's “snakebot” battery charger is certainly hands-free but who could sleep peacefully knowing a sentient metal tentacle is lurking in your garage?
Manually unscrewing side panels is so 2014. In Win's H-Tower will auto-open itself for tinkering at the press of a button, in a manner that can't quite be expressed in mere words or pictures.
A few years ago founders Ian Bernstein and Adam Wilson’s Colorado based
company, Sphero, introduced us to the Bluetooth controlled robotic ball
by the same name. They now want us to meet their newest creation. Ollie
is a souped-up, customizable app-enabled robot. This machine is not your
father’s remote control car.
Scientists published a report this week in which a computer model was used to investigate the possibility of employing bacterial colonies to control mechanical devices like robots. The results were remarkably positive. Read on to find out how this new “living brain” development will impact everything from ecology to medicine.
Little by little, we're approaching a day and age where businesses that
once relied on humans are using technology instead. I say "approaching"
because we're not quite there yet; people are still valued in many
fields, particularly where customer service is concerned. But that
doesn't mean that many businesses aren't already embracing alternatives,
and some of them happen to be a little strange.