LeEco CEO Jia Yueting, left, and Nick Sampson, Faraday Future’s senior vice president of product research & development, shake hands after unveiling the FF91 electric car at CES International Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in Las Vegas. The Smartcane is on display during CES Unveiled before CES International, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017, in Las Vegas.
Category: Robots
Macy’s apparel store closing in Mission Valley
Macy’s apparel store, the original anchor for the 1961 Mission Valley Center mall, is closing starting next week, the struggling department store chain announced Wednesday. It is one of 65 stores that will close this year nationally following three that closed last year.
LG unveils smart home robots, Wi-Fi appliances, and ultra-thin TV
LG kicked off the second press day of the Consumer Electronics Show on Wednesday with a 45-minute keynote featuring robots, consumer appliances, and more products. Here are the biggest announcements that the company made: One of the first announcements LG made Wednesday was that all of its appliances going forward will be Wi-Fi enabled.
Thinking outside of the cubical
“When pondering the future and “innovation,” the image that comes to mind is a world controlled by robots, and run by machines that can answer the needs of mankind. But innovation is also the ability to think out of the box, and improve our quality of life with what seem to be small but meaningful changes.
Lego’s new kit teaches kids to code
The company is launching a new building and coding set at CES 2017 this week that brings movement to Legos. The Lego Boost kit lets kids build five different smart toy models, including a cat, robot and guitar, with the help of sensors and motors.
Lego’s new kit teaches kids to code
The company is launching a new building and coding set at CES 2017 this week that brings movement to Legos. The Lego Boost kit lets kids build five different smart toy models, including a cat, robot and guitar, with the help of sensors and motors.
The Latest at CES: From drones to A.I., top CES 2017 trends
Top trends expected to emerge at CES this year include an explosion of voice-controlled interfaces, subtle integration of artificial intelligence into everyday life and increasing digitization in areas like health and wellness. The 50th annual CES this week in Las Vegas is expected to draw 165,000 attendees.
Smart tech: This year’s CES big on artificial intelligence
The first week of every new year brings a slew of eye-opening technology for gadget lovers at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, and the 2017 edition will open Thursday. The exhibition provided a preview on Tuesday, which revealed that this year’s show will concentrate on the growing use of artificial intelligence in consumer devices.
Here come – smart stores’ with robots, interactive shelves
Tomorrow’s retail stores want to take a page from their online rivals by embracing advanced technology – everything from helpful robots to interactive mirrors to shelves embedded with sensors. The goal: use these real-world store features to lure shoppers back from the Internet, and maybe even nudge them to spend more.
Driverless cars get trade show treatment in Las Vegas
The first test of a self-driving car on the streets of Boston was rained out on Tuesday. But here in the desert there’s no rain in sight, and a host of autonomous autos are hitting the road at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show.
Here Come ‘Smart Stores’ With Robots, Interactive Shelves
Tomorrow’s retail stores want to take a page from their online rivals by embracing advanced technology everything from helpful robots to interactive mirrors to shelves embedded with sensors. The goal: Use these real-world store features to lure shoppers back from the internet, and maybe even nudge them to spend more in the process.
Here come ‘smart stores’ with robots, interactive shelves
This Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, file photo, shows Pepper the robot at Westfield Mall in San Francisco. The SoftBank Robotics humanoid robot can greet shoppers and has the potential to send messages geared to people’s age and gender through facial recognition.
Living in Digital Times to Showcase the Best of Lifestyle Technology at CES Unveiled Las Vegas
To kick things off at the opening CES Unveiled Las Vegas, they are showcasing smart wearables, an augmented reality makeup app, robotic companions and digital health devices, a sampling of the most innovative tech at this year’s show. ” At Unveiled, journalists are looking the stories they believe represent the year’s overarching tech trends.
Designer insists massive Method-2 robot is real
DECEMBER 27: Testing South Korea’s manned walking robot “Method-2” projects by Korea Future Technology on December 27, 2016 in Gunpo, South Korea. Seoul-based robotics company Korea Future Technology has built a robot named Method-2, which can be controlled by a human pilot by using arm gestures.
Mills: Are skilled trades doomed to decline?
Mark P. Mills Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
With Love For Marvel’s Wolverine, Scientist Develops Self-healing Material For Future Robots
Chao Wang, 31, part of a team of scientists, developed a kind of ion conductor infused with the technology of self-healing and super-stretching, which reminds us of Marvel’s Wolverine. In a journal called “Advanced Materials,” they explained that ions can flow back and forth through the new-age conductor.
Scientists develop ‘Wolverine’-inspired material that heals itself
The material, which was inspired in part by the regenerative ability of the comic book antihero Wolverine, could someday be used to improve the lifespan of electronic devices or develop self-repairing robots. In a study published December in the journal Advanced Material, an international team of scientists described the first synthetic ionic conductor – a transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable material that allows ions to flow through it.
Mind-controlled toys: The next generation of Christmas presents?
The next generation of toys could be controlled by the power of the mind, thanks to research by the University of Warwick. Led by Professor Christopher James, Director of Warwick Engineering in Biomedicine at the School of Engineering, technology has been developed which allows electronic devices to be activated using electrical impulses from brain waves, by connecting our thoughts to computerised systems.
Humanoid robot Pepper is amusing, but is it practical?
Laila, left, and her sister Nour, last names not given, play with Pepper the robot at Westfield Mall in San Francisco. SAN FRANCISCO – While merrily chirping, dancing and posing for selfies, a robot named Pepper looks like another expensive toy at a San Francisco mall.
LG will put robots under the CES 2017 spotlight
LG has its hands in almost every consumer electronics cookie jar except one: robots. Well, except maybe for the HOM-BOT robot vacuum, which everyone makes these days, and the “G5 Friend” Rolling Bot, which is practically a hi-tech toy for cats.
LG To Show Off New Robots At CES 2017
Robots are the way of the future as from what we can tell, the have many purposes such as being used to help automate production , clean your house , and provide you with companionship . If you are excited to see what the future of robotics holds for us, you’ll be pleased to learn that LG will be focusing on robots this coming CES.
Thailand 4.0: Are we ready?
Officials, analysts express doubts that the overarching ambition to escape from the middle-income trap through high technology will be achieved any time soon. By Apornrath Phoonphongphiphat A technician tests a Dinsow Tebo robot, created to promote the use of robotics in services, an innovation that complies with Thailand 4.0.a The government has launched a new flagship policy that will be the master plan to free Thailand from the middle-income trap, making it a high-income nation in five years.
Robots that hire and fire staff could soon be employed by the…
Robots could soon be hiring and firing staff at the world’s largest hedge fund under secret plans drawn up to improve efficiency. A team of engineers at US-based Bridgewater Associates is reportedly developing artificial intelligence which can run the firm without emotions getting in the way.
Watch Korea’s mech take its first steps with a pilot on board
That real, life-sized mech Korean company Hankook Mirae debuted recently isn’t just for show. Its designer, Hollywood SFX veteran Vitaly Bulgarov, has posted a video on Facebook showing the robot taking its first steps.
iPhone Manufacturer Foxconn Will Replace All Human Workers With Robots
Manufacturing jobs are increasingly being taken over by robots as automating factories and production lines turns out to be more cost-effective for companies. Foxconn, a China-based manufacturer that has long produced iPhones for Apple , has laid out a three-phase plan in which it’s going to replace almost all of its human workers with robots.
Technological breakthroughs for 2017
The year of 2016 witnessed huge technological developments across the world with new opportunities in the horizon. From technological perspective, it can be said “the world will never be the same again” after these developments hit the market.
China looks to build up underwater defences
China’s seizure of an American underwater drone in the South China Sea this month was a reflection of Beijing’s concerns about the growing use of such vehicles in the contested waters and would spur efforts to build up its own military capabilities beneath the waves, military experts say. Beijing played down the seizure of the unmanned underwater vehicle, which the United States said was operating lawfully in international waters about 50 nautical miles northwest of Subic Bay in the Philippines when it was taken by a Chinese navy ship on December 15, and returned the drone five days later to a US navy ship close to where it had been seized.
Mike Cote’s Business Editor’s Notebook: Alexa knows the tune, but she still has a lot to learn
Eight-year-old Sutton Philips, left, his brother, 10-year-old Greyson Philips, center, and their mom, Liz Philips, right, play a game of rock-paper-scissors with “Alexa,” their Amazon Echo wireless speaker and voice command personal assistant at their home in San Diego’s Scripps Ranch community.
Combining Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Is it a threat?
Over the weekend, either BBC Knowledge, the History Channel, or Discovery, aired a segment on “Combining Artificial Intelligence and Robots” and posed the question as to whether or not it was a threat to mankind. Part of this discussion included the moral concepts associated with enabling “smart robots” to conduct autonomous killing and what-not.
First Robotic Surgery Training Centre in Asia Where More than 600 Surgeons trained in 6 Year
GURGAON, NCR DELHI, INDIA, December 31, 2016 / EINPresswire.com / — World Laparoscopy Hospital , Gurgaon is one of the most popular laparoscopic and robotic surgery training institute of the World. World Laparoscopy Hospital is the only institute in Asia which gives structured da Vinci robotic surgery training in structured manner and after this Hands On training surgeons, urologists and gynaecologists become eligible for Fellowship of International College of Robotic Surgeons.
robotframework 3.0.1rc1
Robot Framework is a generic open source test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development . It has easy-to-use tabular test data syntax and it utilizes the keyword-driven testing approach.
The future of airport security? Lie-detecting robots being tested to…
The system, known as the Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessment in Real Time, or AVATAR, has already begun tests with the Canadian Border Services Agency. “AVATAR has been tested in labs, in airports and at border crossing stations,” said Aaron Elkins, who worked on the development of the software.
T-zone – Vision for the Future
This year at CES 2017 mark you map and visit the T-zone, the new VR and Robot Tech marketplace in the Hall G, Global Technology, Venetian/Sands! From January 5-8, we invite you experiencing all kinds of the latest technology in the industry of VR and Robot. At 4:00 – 6:00 pm, January 6, we invite all VR and Robot fans to attend the happy hour of a networking cocktail.
Thank you, from the Kump Center
With the help of generous and creative people, we are turning an historic house into a place where learning is fun.
CES 2017: From new smart TVs to sleep tech, here’s what to expect
The eyes of the tech world will be firmly fixed on Las Vegas when the Consumer Electronics Show kicks off next week. CES 2017 also marks the event’s 50th anniversary and news.com.au ‘s technology editor Matthew Dunn will be there to take in all the action, and there’s plenty to look forward to.
Year in review: 2016 became a year of a Stranger Thingsa
It’s in that acclaimed Netflix show set in 1983 that a group of average folks in Hawkins, Indiana, confront the existence of “The Upside Down” – a cold, dark, dank parallel dimension. Shockingly, they find it’s been there for years with only a thin veil separating them from the dreadful place.
Year in review: 2016 became a year of a Stranger Thingsa
It’s in that acclaimed Netflix show set in 1983 that a group of average folks in Hawkins, Indiana, confront the existence of “The Upside Down” – a cold, dark, dank parallel dimension. Shockingly, they find it’s been there for years with only a thin veil separating them from the dreadful place.
Everybot RS500 Floor Mopping Robot: No More Buckets
Looking like a giant and uncomfortable mouse, this household robot wants to help eliminate the need of performing one of life’s unpleasant tasks: mopping floors. The Everybot RS500 robot will take care of this laborious task for you with the touch of a button.
More than 20,000 dead fish mysteriously washed up in Nova Scotia
Tens of thousands of fish, starfish, scallops, crabs, lobsters, and other ocean life washed up dead this week at Savory Park on the western coast of Nova Scotia. The cause of the massive fish death is not yet known.
The real political divide is education
The two main political parties in this country are about to face a challenge that will create a complete realignment as politicians are forced to choose between robots and people. Vespasian ruled Rome from AD 69 to AD 79. The emperor was one of the first heads of state to encourage the development of art, science and technology.