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Electronic License Plates for Drones May Come Soon

New drone standard for remote ID submitted for approval




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Video Friday: Watch This Robot Dog Explore an Underground Tunnel Autonomously

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Universal Robots Introduces Its Strongest Robotic Arm Yet

The Danish company is announcing a powerful new member of its collaborative robots family




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U.S. Energy Department is First Customer for World’s Biggest Chip

Cerebras aims to speed deep learning at supercomputing centers




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Video Friday: Roller-Skating Quadruped Has Best of Both Worlds Mobility

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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The Ultimate Optimization Problem: How to Best Use Every Square Meter of the Earth's Surface

Lucas Joppa, founder of Microsoft's AI for Earth program, is taking an engineering approach to environmental issues




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Boston Dynamics' Spot Robot Dog Goes on Sale

Here's everything we know about Boston Dynamics' first commercial robot




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Swappable Flying Batteries Keep Drones Aloft Almost Forever

Mid-air docking of flying batteries can massively extend the flight time of a drone




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Video Friday: Boston Dynamics' Atlas Robot Shows Off New Gymnastics Skills

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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AI Faces Speed Bumps and Potholes on Its Road From the Research Lab to Everyday Use

Rigid IT departments and job-hopping data scientists are just two of the challenges that make implementing machine learning harder than you might think



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Skydio’s New Drone Is Smaller, Even Smarter, and (Almost) Affordable

Skydio crams all its autonomous magic into a sleek consumer drone that costs under $1k




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Want a Really Hard Machine Learning Problem? Try Agriculture, Says John Deere Labs

John Deere, the nearly 200-year-old tractor manufacturer, now considers itself a software company



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Video Friday: Caltech's Drone With Legs Takes First Steps

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Drones as Detectives: Surveying Crime Scenes for Evidence

Researchers in Brazil are developing a drone that scouts for evidence—and want to use its footage to reconstruct crime scenes




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Video Friday: This Humanoid Robot Will Serve You Ice Cream

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Agility Robotics Unveils Upgraded Digit Walking Robot

The improvements include nimbler feet, better perception, and fully custom electronics




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Labrador Systems Developing Affordable Assistive Robots for the Home

A startup led by robotics veterans is announcing a pre-seed funding round with participation from Amazon's Alexa Fund and iRobot Ventures




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Skydio's Dock in a Box Enables Long-Term Autonomy for Drone Applications

This cozy little box provides a remote home for Skydio's fully autonomous obstacle-avoiding drone




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Video Friday: Transferring Human Motion to a Mobile Robot Manipulator

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Zipline Deploys Medical Delivery Drones with U.S. Military

A military exercise in Australia demonstrates how small drones can airdrop critical medical supplies to soldiers in combat




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Video Friday: Kuka's Robutt Is a Robot Designed to Assess New Car Seats

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Natural Language Processing Dates Back to Kabbalist Mystics

Long before NLP became a hot field in AI, people devised rules and machines to manipulate language



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Blue Frog Robotics Answers (Some of) Our Questions About Its Delayed Social Robot Buddy

Blue Frog Robotics CEO Rodolphe Hasselvander on the future of Buddy




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This MIT Robot Wants to Use Your Reflexes to Walk and Balance

A new two-way teleoperation system sends your motions to the robot and the robot's motions to you




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Video Friday: DJI's Mavic Mini Is a $400 Palm-Sized Foldable Drone

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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In the 17th Century, Leibniz Dreamed of a Machine That Could Calculate Ideas

The machine would use an “alphabet of human thoughts” and rules to combine them



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We're at IROS 2019 to Bring You the Most Exciting Robotics Research From Around the World

As always, our coverage will feature the coolest, weirdest, and most interesting things that we find at this massive robotics conference




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Microsoft's AI Research Draws Controversy Over Possible Disinformation Use

Microsoft's AI could enable its popular chatbot to comment on news, but critics see a tool for spreading disinformation



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  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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What Is the Uncanny Valley?

Creepy robots and the strange phenomenon of the uncanny valley: definition, history, examples, and how to avoid it




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China Says Its Mars Landing Technology Is Ready for 2020

Spacecraft propulsion systems are ready for China’s daring touchdown attempt on the red planet




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The Blogger Behind "AI Weirdness" Thinks Today's AI Is Dumb and Dangerous

Janelle Shane talks about the absurdity, perils, and limits of AI



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Andrey Markov & Claude Shannon Counted Letters to Build the First Language-Generation Models

Shannon's said: “OCRO HLI RGWR NMIELWIS”



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Video Friday: Invasion of the Mini Cheetah Robots

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Why People Demanded Privacy to Confide in the World’s First Chatbot

In 1966, the Eliza program couldn’t say much—but it was enough



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Video Friday: Robotic Endoscope Travels Through the Colon

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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How Boston Dynamics Is Redefining Robot Agility

An exclusive look at the world’s most dynamic robots




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Skydio 2 Review: This Is the Drone You Want to Fly

Flying this $999 obstacle-dodging drone is a magical experience




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Video Friday: This Robot Refuses to Fall Down Even if You Hit, Shove It

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos





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13 Going on 30 Was Almost, Uh, Not Very Good

A YouTube search unearths deleted scenes shot with a different cast.





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Boba Fett Might Just Jetpack in to Meet Baby Yoda on The Mandalorian Season 2

Temuera Morrison is appearing on the next season of the show.




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Laura Linney Shading Lesser Actresses Won Late Night This Week

Not every actor is Linney-caliber.



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The Eddy Recap: Sad Songs Say So Much

“Amira” invites us to two very different Eddy celebrations, each with Farid at their center.




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Golden Globes Suspend Foreign Language Film Eligibility Rules As Well

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.





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Siegfried & Roy Magician Roy Horn Dead at 75 Due to COVID-19 Complications

“Today, the world has lost one of the greats of magic, but I have lost my best friend,” Siegfried Fischbacher said in a statement.




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Tyra Banks Admits Some America’s Next Top Model Moments Were Over the Line

Hindsight is 20/20, even if you’re smizing.




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Dead to Me Recap: Mercury in Retrograde

After finding common ground, Jen and Judy split up to spend time with new friends who could end up being something more.




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The Eddy Recap: The Low End

An overlooked member of The Eddy band steps into the spotlight for a bittersweet—mostly bitter—story about his troubled past and uncertain future.