Category: Robots

At 2017 CES, LG expands IOT ecosystem with robot solutions

At the just concluded Computer Electronic, CES, show held in Las Vegas the United States of America, LG Electronics showcased lineup of intelligent robots, as part of the company’s innovations in artificial intelligence and developments in the internet of a thing, IoT, ecosystem. The lineup included a home robot that doubles as a smart home gateway and intelligent home notification center, enhancing convenience in users’ day-to-day lives.

ICYMI: A soft robot sleeve to keep your heart going

Today on In Case You Missed It : A soft robotic device made by Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers has been tested on pigs and so far, seems quite promising in treating heart disease. The robotic heart wraps around parts of existing tissue and helps squeeze, keeping the blood moving.

Mound Valley Grade School to get makerspace

Mound Valley Grade School principal Melissa Green has watched with awe students’ reactions as Lisa Blair, director of student learning at the Southeast Kansas Education Service Center, Greenbush, comes to the school once a month with the STEM Mobile Learning Lab.

Spy in the Wild

Last year, when I took part in the Dagstuhl workshop on Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots , we had a brainstorming session, fantasising about how advanced robots might help us with animal behaviour research. “Spy” animals, if you will.

Soft Robot Helps the Heart Beat

Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital researchers have developed a customizable soft robot that fits around a heart and helps it beat, potentially opening new treatment options for people suffering from heart failure. The soft robotic sleeve twists and compresses in synch with a beating heart, augmenting cardiovascular functions weakened by heart failure.

robotpy-cscore added to PyPI

These are python bindings for the cscore library, which is a high performance library used in the FIRST Robotics competition to serve video to/from robots. However, the core library is suitable for use in other applications, and is comparable to something like mjpg-streamer.

Impact of robots a growing concern at Davos

Technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence and 3-D printing mean more and more types of jobs are at risk Open markets and global trade have been blamed for job losses over the last decade, but global CEOs say the real culprits are increasingly machines. Business leaders gathered at the annual World Economic Forum in Davos relished the productivity gains technology can bring this week.

John Boyega Shares Awesome New Pacific Rim Image

For a long time, it seemed like a sequel to 2013’s Pacific Rim was never going to happen, but thankfully we don’t live in that universe. A sequel called Pacific Rim: Uprising has been deep in production since November, with an impressive cast that includes the like of John Boyega , Charlie Day, and Scott Eastwood.

These Are The Jobs Most Likely To Be Taken Over By Robots

If you saw our list of least stressful jobs of 2017 and considered a pivot into a new profession, you may want to reconsider. It sounds like science fiction, but while you’re planning your future, you may want to factor in the possibility of automation – namely, whether or not your job will get taken over by a legion of robots.

EU Considers If Future Robots Have Legal Rights

I know I saw a movie about this somewhere, but now it’s a real-life question in the European Union. In a report by the Committee on Legal Affairs for the European Parliament, the government proposes laws on the creation and ethical treatment of smart robots .

Ostrich sneakily defends her offspring from a leopard

In a dramatic display of the power of a mother’s love, an ostrich has been captured on camera defending her offspring from a formidable predator. In the clip, which will be aired on the BBC One series ‘Spy in the Wild’ tonight, the ostrich distracts the leopard by pretending to be injured.

For driverless cars, a moral dilemma: Who lives or dies?

To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: In this Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, photo, an autonomous vehicle is driven by an engineer on a street through an industrial park, in Boston. Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are asking human drivers how they’d handle life-or-death decisions in hopes of creating better algorithms to guide autonomous vehicles.

While We’re On My Favorite Subject

Imagine you’re behind the wheel when your brakes fail. As you speed toward a crowded crosswalk, you’re confronted with an impossible choice: veer right and mow down a large group of elderly people, or veer left into a woman pushing a stroller.

Security Robots Patrolling a Mall Near You

Silicon Valley start-up Knightscope is rolling out security robots that can help take a bite out of the crime that costs the American economy $1 trillion every year. Silicon Valley start-up Knightscope is rolling out security robots that can help take a bite out of the crime that costs the American economy $1 trillion every year.

At 6.0% CAGR, Global Industrial Robotics Market Will Reach USD 42.0 Billion in 2020

Global Industrial Robotics Market By Function , By Type , for Electrical & Electronics, Automotive, Machinery, Chemical, Rubber & Plastics, Food & Beverages, Metals, Precision & Optics and Other Applications: Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Segment, Trends and Forecast, 2014 – 2020. The report covers forecast and analysis for the industrial robotics market on a global and regional level.

iRobot Names Elisha Finney to Board of Directors

Ms. Finney brings more than 25 years of financial and technology-related expertise to iRobot as the company focuses on a strategy of growth and allocating capital that maximizes shareholder value. Ms. Finney’s management responsibilities at Varian Medical Systems include corporate accounting; corporate communications and investor relations; internal financial and compliance audit; risk management; tax and treasury, and corporate information systems.

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module evolves

Maybe you need more access to GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi, maybe you’re even building a robot, or some such home automation project, or maybe you’re just interested in the latest release from the Raspberry Pi Foundation the thing to note is the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3! Basically, you get the guts of the latest Raspberry Pi, as well as 4Gbyte of eMMC Flash, integrated on to a smaller board, which fits into a standard DDR2 SODIMM connector. And many more GPIOs and interfaces are available as compared to the Raspberry Pi itself.

Robots aid learning process

Barrington Elementary third-grader Eliza Paxton uses an app on her iPad to make a robot play music on a xylophone. Students in Katie Benton’s class have been using the robots to learn tasks such as coding, collaboration and problem-solving through use of their school-issued computer tablets and Dash and Dot robots, which were funded through a grant from the Upper Arlington Education Foundation and the Barrington Parent Teacher Organization.

Global Market Study on Smart Machines: Owing to Increasing Need for…

Global Market Study on Smart Machines: Owing to Increasing Need for Improved Data Accessibility by Manufacturing Industries to Drive Market Growth By 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Persistence Market research offers a nine-year forecast for the global smart machines market between 2016 and 2024. In terms of value, the global smart machines market is expected to register a CAGR of 18.8% during the forecast period .

Autonomous Delivery: Your Impulse Buys Will Still Be Safe

I heard a “Year in Review” program the other day on NPR with a BBC World Service panel discussion of what’s ahead for 2017. One prediction was that UAV delivery of packages would be commonplace this year, and as proof the commentator reported that Amazon had already had a successful test in the UK.

At The Movies, Technology Isn’t Everything

There’s no surer way to be reminded of the formulaic nature of even good Hollywood filmmaking these days, and the dearth of original ideas, than to sit through several consecutive previews for similar films. Naturally, whenever you go to a movie these days, the studios ensure that you seea several consecutive previews for similar films.

Rubix Project Software Is Rubix Project App Scam Or not?

Rubix Project Software Is Rubix Project APP SCAM Or NOT? Rubix Project Trading Software By Mr. Brian Morgan Rubix Project Scam Or Legit? How Does Rubix Project System Work? Is It Possible To Make Millions While Rubix Project Binary Options Trading? Learn Why Rubix Project Trading APP Is The Best for your investment options. The Rubix APP is a new automated robot designed and developed By Rubix Project Brian Morgan.

Travel Megatrends 2017: Festivalization of Meetings and Events

Conference organizers are developing more multidisciplinary programming that pulls from both the business and creative industries, creating a new convergence of experiences that help brands plug into business events in more ways. Last week we released our annual travel industry trends forecast, Skift Megatrends 2017 .