Control a robot with thoughts from inside a brain scanner
Scientists have made it possible for a man in Israel to move a robot in France just by thinking about moving. By using an fMRI machine, which scans the brain and displays the activity in real time,...
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Sophisticated Robotic Hand Also Doubles As A Human Exoskeleton
It may be time to jettison the notion that robots in the future will have grippers or claws for hands. The German robotics company Festo recently unveiled the ExoHand, a sophisticated robotic hand that...
View ArticleLevitating light bulb makes wires a thing of the past
Nothing screams "future" more than stuff that levitates, and this levitating LED lightturns things up by adding wireless power to the mix as well. It's not something that you can buy quite yet, but...
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Hewlett Packard patents transparent computer monitor screen
Literally just days ago (July 3, 2012) Hewlett Packard succeeded in patenting its first "See-through display". The U. S. patent is filed under patent number 8,212,744. It is fairly well known that...
View ArticleUkrainian Students Win Microsoft’s Imagine Cup With Their Sign...
During an awards ceremony in Sydney today, Ukraine’s team quadSquad just won this year’sMicrosoft Imagine Cup student technology competition (and $25,000) thanks to its gloves that can translate sign...
View Article'You, Robot': Personal Robots for the Masses
Along West Hill Road, just west of the Lincoln Gap in Bristol, Vt., sit two big yellow houses on a sprawling property featuring ten solar panels, a dock overlooking a sunlit, trout-filled pond, and...
View ArticleThis Week In Bots: On A Gender-Bender With Gynoids, Androids & Androgynoids
Bot Vid: Strolling Like A Person Walking like a human isn't just a weird narcissistic goal for robot developers--the human gait has evolved to be a very efficient way to move bipedally, and if robots...
View ArticleWhen Machines Do Your Job
Are American workers losing their jobs to machines? That was the question posed by Race Against the Machine, an influential e-book published last October by MIT business school researchers Erik...
View ArticleU.S. Army Awards $358 Million Contract to AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems
AAI Unmanned Aircraft Systems, a Textron company, recently declared that it has been presented with a $358 M worth engineering support and system upgrades award from the U.S. Army’s Program Manager UAS...
View ArticleSocial Machines: How This Company is Using Artificial Intelligence to Create...
Can machines do a better job than humans at protecting an organization’s network? Enterasys Networks (a Siemens Company) seems to think it’s an smart idea worth pursuing. They’ve created a solution...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence app helps blind people
A team of university students from the University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology have created a smartphone app which uses artificial intelligence to help blind people make better...
View ArticleColourblind Artist Surgically Implants an Eyeborg to See Through Sound
Colourblind artist Neil Harbisson has used a head-mounted sensor to convert colours to sound for a few years, but now he’s persuaded a surgical team to take his ‘eyeborg’ one step further. Harbisson...
View ArticleRobot gives remote operator the sensation of touch
A group of researchers have developed technology that allows a remote operator wearing special gloves to "feel" what an avatar robot is touching. "This feels rough," a researcher said as an avatar...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence is the Next Step in Search (and everything else)
Entrepreneur Lars Hard feels he has seen the future of search, information gathering and the web in general, and it is artificial intelligence. Computational intelligence, to put it more succinctly:...
View ArticleWhy zombies, robots, clowns freak us out
What do zombies and androids have in common? They're almost human, but not quite. That disconnect is creepy, in a way that scientists are searching to understand. The uncanny valley is the idea that as...
View ArticleExpressive face helps robot bridge 'uncanny valley'
A good-looking robot is seriously hard to find. Robots can be pretty, some even handsome, but as soon as they get too realistic they start to creep us out. A new system for helping robots to generate...
View ArticleToward achieving 1 million times increase in computing efficiency
Modern-day computers are based on logic circuits using semiconductor transistors. To increase computing power, smaller transistors are required. Moore's Law states that the number of transistors that...
View ArticleSAM the robot could inspect Toronto highrises
Entrepreneur Filip Sobotka says the solution to Toronto's falling glass problems could be a robot named SAM. The device, which was developed by his family, could speed up the way building inspections...
View ArticleRobot start-ups are spawning in the U.S.
The mechanical march of robotics is picking up serious steam in the USA. Two of every three start-ups in the industry worldwide are in the USA, according to a survey in The Robot Report. Of 108...
View ArticleRobot dinosaurs printed in 3D
A hobbyist found the first nearly complete dinosaur skeleton in New Jersey in 1858, during the era of gentlemen scientists, gas lamps and extremely ruffled skirts. A century and a half later,...
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