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Robotic dogs - Boston Dynamics, others

Robotic dogs - Boston Dynamics, others

Biorobotics - Healthcare, Medical Tech - Robotics and Automation

Biorobotics - Healthcare, Medical Tech - Robotics and Automation

Workplace Automation - AI bots, tools, resources

Workplace Automation - AI bots, tools, resources

Robotics and Automation - research, trends

Robotics and Automation - research, trends

Prosthetic limbs - biotech, innovation, impact

A collection of articles about Prosthetic limbs - biotech, innovation, impact

AI as a Service and Workplace Automation

AI as a Service and Workplace Automation

Healthcare, Medical Tech - Robotics and Automation

Healthcare, Medical Tech - Robotics and Automation

Mining Asteroids in outer space

Mining Asteroids in outer space

Exoskeleton Technology - Robotics and Automation

Exoskeleton Technology - Robotics and Automation

Boston Dynamics - Robotics, Automation

Boston Dynamics - Robotics, Automation

Surveillance, Privacy, Drones and AI

articles and videos looking at drones, ai and surveillance applications

Robotics, Automation and Dexterity

Impact on the future of work from Robotics and Automation

Agriculture, Farming, Food and Robotics, Automation

Impact on the future of work from Robotics and Automation, with a focus on food

Wing - Drone Startup

articles and videos looking at drones and entrepreneurs

Drone Startups

articles and videos looking at drones and entrepreneurs

Drones, Airplanes and Regulations

articles and videos looking at Drones, Airplanes and Regulations

Robotics, Automation and Food - delivery, preparation

Impact on the future of work from Robotics and Automation, with a focus on food

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Robotic dogs: "Black Mirror" Metalhead (TV Episode 2017)

Metalhead: Directed by David Slade. With Maxine Peake, Jake Davies, Clint Dyer. In the post-apocalyptic landscape of the Scottish Moors, a woman at... (2024)


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Opportunities and challenges in the development of exoskeletons for locomotor assistance | Nature Biomedical Engineering

Exoskeletons can augment the performance of unimpaired users and restore movement in individuals with gait impairments. Knowledge of how users inte... (2023)


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These prosthetics break the mold with third thumbs, spikes and superhero skins | MIT Technology Review

Prosthetics designers are coming up with new ways to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin. (2023)


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This Exoskeleton Uses AI to Help People Walk Faster With Less Energy

There’s a short learning curve, but on average the algorithm was able to effectively tailor itself to new users in just an hour. (2022)


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iRobot's Roomba will soon be owned by Amazon, which raises privacy questions

In the development of ever smarter homes, Amazon could soon have access to the maps of our houses created and stored by Roomba vacuums. (2022)


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They’re putting guns on robot dogs now - The Verge

It was only a matter of time before they started equipping robot dogs with guns. A quadrupedal machine built by Ghost Robotics has been outfitted w... (2021)


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Where Are The Robotic Bricklayers? - by Brian Potter - Construction Physics

When researching construction, you invariably discover that any new or innovative idea has actually been tried over and over again, often stretchin... (2021)


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Hyundai acquires controlling stake in U.S. robotics firm Boston Dynamics for $880 million

Hyundai Motor Group has announced the acquisition of a controlling stake in the U.S robotics firm Boston Dynamics. (2021)


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Kroger launches its first Ocado-powered ‘shed’, a massive, robot-filled fulfillment center in Ohio – TechCrunch

After inking a deal to work together almost three years ago, U.S. supermarket chain Kroger and U.K. online grocer Ocado today took the wraps off th... (2021)


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A New York Lawmaker Wants to Ban Police Use of Armed Robots | WIRED

Officers’ use of Boston Robotics’ Digidog intensifies concerns about militarization of the police. (2021)


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A possible new cancer treatment? Robots that attack tumors - Los Angeles Times

Chemotherapy and radiation can cause too much collateral damage to treat some brain tumors. Crumb-sized robots could be the solution. (2021)


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Space startup Gitai raises $17.1M to help build the robotic workforce of commercial space – TechCrunch

Japanese space startup Gitai has raised a $17.1 million funding round, a Series B financing for the robotics startup. This new funding will be used... (2021)


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DoorDash acquires salad-making robotics startup, Chowbotics – TechCrunch

DoorDash is expanding its robotic footprint into the kitchen. The delivery service is set to acquire Chowbotics, a Bay Area-based robotics best kno... (2021)


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German Bionic raises $20M led by Samsung for exoskeleton tech to supercharge human labor

Exoskeleton technology has been one of the more interesting developments in the world of robotics: Instead of building machines that replace humans... (2020)


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Hyundai to acquire Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B

According to a report from The Korea Economic Daily, Hyundai Motor will acquire Boston Dynamics for $921 million (1 trillion won). (2020)


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Robotics - Robots that can walk are now striding to market

They will be able to go where people can, but existing bots cannot (2020)


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Scientists Are Printing Living “Xenobots” out of Biological Cells

Xenobots mark a major step forward in biological robots. The tiny, short-lived creatures are designed in a virtual world then 3D printed with livin... (2020)


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Curious About Consciousness? Ask the Self-Aware Machines

Consciousness is a famously hard problem, so Hod Lipson is starting from the basics: with self-aware robots that can help us understand how we think. (2020)


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PlayStation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

TOKYO -- Sony's PlayStation has won hundreds of millions of fans across the world since its launch in 1994. But few know just how much of the console' (2020)


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New York Startup Hyperscience Raises $60 Million To Become Automation Software’s Next Breakout

New York startup Hyperscience has raised $60 million from Bessemer Venture Partners to spread the gospel of automation in a time of remote work due... (2020)


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Nearly half of Twitter accounts pushing to reopen America may be bots

Kathleen M. Carley and her team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Informed Democracy & Social Cybersecurity have been tracking bots an... (2020)


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IT'S TIME TO BUILD - by Marc Andreessen

Every Western institution was unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic, despite many prior warnings. This monumental failure of institutional effect... (2020)


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Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf - GitHub - huginn/huginn

Github - Your agents are standing by! - huginn/huginn Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They c... (2019)


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Extremely dexterous robot can solve a Rubik's cube one-handed | New Scientist

Artificial intelligence has learned to control a single robot hand with enough dexterity to solve a Rubik’s cube in around 3 minutes “The system... (2019)


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Work management platform Asana launches new automation tools – TechCrunch

Work management platform Asana today announced the launch of a new feature that will take the work out of some of the most mundane and repetitive t... (2019)


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Traptic uses 3D vision and robotic arms to harvest ripe strawberries – TechCrunch

At some unspecified time, somewhere down the road, Traptic would love to expand its robots to pick a wide variety of crops. For now, however, the S... (2019)


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Robots to Cut 200,000 U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says - Bloomberg (2019)

Robots to Cut 200,000 U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says By Alfred Liu October 1, 2019, 10:52 PM EDT Industry spends $150 billion ann... (2019)


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From Communism To Coding: How Daniel Dines Of $7 Billion UiPath Became The First Bot Billionaire

Inside $7 billion UiPath, the cloud company cofounded by new billionaire Daniel Dines, who's trying to end humdrum office work by providing a "robo... (2019)


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Robot Hiveminds and Network Effects | by Ali Yahya

While I was at Google X, I worked on an effort to build a robot hivemind. Here’s what I learned about “data network effects”. About a month ago,... (2019)


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Exclusive: Amazon rolls out machines that pack orders and replace jobs - Reuters

Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders. (2019)


Video

The Truth About Boston Dynamics' Robot Dog

Robot dogs are here. But why? (2024)


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I Challenged Boston Dynamics' Famous Atlas Robot

What can this human-like robot really do?Get an exclusive Surfshark Black Friday deal! Enter promo code CLEO to get up to 6 additional months for f... (2023)


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How Robots Could Help Retailers Save Billions

Outfitted with cameras and sensors, autonomous inventory robots can verify price signs and look for out-of-stock items. Inventory is one of the big... (2023)


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How Do Russian Bots Work? - Video - NYTimes.com

How do bots and trolls work to infiltrate social media platforms and influence U.S. elections? We take a closer look at these insidious online pest... (2018)


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How the Tesla Model S is Made | Tesla Motors Part 1 (WIRED)

WIRED Published on Jul 16, 2013 If founder Elon Musk is right, Tesla Motors just might reinvent the American auto industry—with specialized rob... (2018)


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What a driverless world could look like | Wanis Kabbaj | TED

What if traffic flowed through our streets as smoothly and efficiently as blood flows through our veins? Transportation geek Wanis Kabbaj thinks we... (2018)


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10 Year Futures (vs. What's Happening Now) | a16z

a16z talk with a look at trends in technologies: “The personal computer S-curve gave us 1.5 billion PCs and 3 billion people online, and now the s... (2017)


Podcast

Xenobots: It's not science fiction. Scientists have really made robots that reproduce : NPR

Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Harvard researcher Sam Kriegman about xenobots, the self-replicating robots he helped create. (2021)


Podcast

The robots are coming for your office, with NYT’s Kevin Roose - Decoder with Nilay Patel | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from Decoder with Nilay Patel on Spotify. Nilay Patel sits down with New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose to discuss th... (2021)


Podcast

The Rise Of The Machines - The Indicator from Planet Money | Podcast on Spotify

Listen to this episode from The Indicator from Planet Money on Spotify. In today's classic, the robots take over the show from Cardiff and Stacey a... (2021)


Podcast

Flying cars: (podcast) “Free as a bird”, an episode from The Economist on Spotify

Travellers have long dreamed of soaring above traffic jams. Those dreams may come true, in the form of passenger-carrying drones. We look at the co... (2018)


Website

Dani Clode Design - prosthetics design

An augmentation designer exploring the future body (2023)


Website

API Reference  |  Dialogflow

Dialogflow is a Google-owned developer of human–computer interaction technologies based on natural language conversations. The company is best know... (2018)


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