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Five routes to competitive advantage with AI

Start harnessing the power of data today – learn how in this whitepaper




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Soft Exosuit Makes Walking and Running Easier Than Ever

A lightweight, flexible exosuit pulls on your muscles as you move to make you more efficient




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Video Friday: Watch Robots Make a Crepe and Twist the Perfect Pretzel

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Russian Humanoid Robot to Pilot Soyuz Capsule to ISS This Week

Skybot F-850 will spend a week on the ISS charming astronauts with its sense of humor




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DARPA Subterranean Challenge: The Scoring Rules

How autonomous robots in the underground scavenger hunt pick up points for their teams




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How Robotics Teams Are Solving the Biggest Problem at DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

Supporting long-range communications inside of a mine is extremely difficult, so DARPA SubT teams are trying out some creative approaches




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6 Things to Know About the Biggest Chip Ever Built

Startup Cerebras has built a wafer-size chip for AI, but it isn’t the only one possible




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AI Chemist Finds the Best Recipe and Stirs Up Molecules From Scratch

A new automated lab bench combs through known chemical reactions to figure out how best to synthesize compounds




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ANYbotics Introduces Sleek New ANYmal C Quadruped

The latest version of ANYbotics' four-legged robot can do useful real-world inspection tasks




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Video Friday: AlienGo Quadruped Robot Can Now Do Backflips

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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All of the Winners in the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Tunnel Circuit

It's about more than just first place as teams look toward more competitions in 2020




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Blue Ocean Robotics Acquires Beam Telepresence Robot From Suitable Technologies

Beam now belongs to a Danish robot venture factory




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New Double 3 Robot Makes Telepresence Easier than Ever

With mapping and semi-autonomous navigation, even you can drive a Double 3




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ETH Zurich Demonstrates PuppetMaster Robot

Robots that can control puppets could one day learn to manipulate complex physical objects like clothing and flexible sheets




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Video Friday: This Robotic Thread Could One Day Travel Inside Your Brain

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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Construction Robots Learn to Excavate by Mimicking Humans

Human movements can teach robots the skills they need to dig holes and—maybe someday—build the first colonies on Mars




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Parrot Adds Folding VR Goggles to Anafi Drone Kit

One of our favorite consumer drones gets an FPV upgrade




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It Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Responsibly Fly a Drone

The FAA’s app—which tells you where you can and can’t fly your drone—ignores both local and national regulations




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Soft Self-Healing Materials for Robots That Cannot Be Destroyed

It'll take more than having its fingers chopped off to stop this robot hand




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Video Friday: Misty Robotics Begins Shipping Its Programmable Personal Robot

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos




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RoMeLa's Newest Robot Is a Curiously Symmetrical Dynamic Quadruped

With four legs but no back or front, ALPHRED 2 can run, jump, and punch through boards in any direction




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How Much AI Expertise Do Thought Leaders and Companies Really Have?

Consultancy firm Certified Artificial, which is offering to certify AI companies, has demonstrated its prowess by rating the expertise of Elon Musk and Henry Kissinger



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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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Water Jet Powered Drone Takes Off With Explosions

To take off from the water, this drone uses an explosion-powered water jet




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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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AI Agents Startle Researchers With Unexpected Hide-and-Seek Strategies

The OpenAI project demonstrated "emergent behavior" by the AI players, including surfing



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  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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This Startup Is Building Giant Robots to Grow Our Food

FarmWise is using AI and robotics to enhance farming efficiency by taking care of each plant individually




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Stochastic Robots Use Randomness to Achieve More Complex Goals

Little swarm robots that can't do much on their own can use their random behavior to accomplish tasks like locomotion




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This "Useless" Social Robot Wants to Succeed Where Others Failed

The creators of Kiki believe they can build an emotionally engaging social home robot that is also "completely useless"




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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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NASA Hiring Engineers to Develop “Next Generation Humanoid Robot”

Job postings from a NASA contractor suggest that a new humanoid robot is under development




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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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  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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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



  • robotics
  • robotics/artificial-intelligence

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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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From Mainframes to PCs: What Robot Startups Can Learn From the Computer Revolution

In their search for killer apps, robotics companies should look at the amazing evolution of computers




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Next-Gen AR Glasses Will Require New Chip Designs

A Facebook executive challenges the Arm processor community to create tech building blocks for augmented reality glasses




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Watch Astrobee's First Autonomous Flight on the International Space Station

For the first time, NASA's Astrobee robot has demonstrated autonomous free flight in space




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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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OpenAI Teaches Robot Hand to Solve Rubik's Cube

Using reinforcement learning and randomized simulations, researchers taught this robot how to solve a Rubik's cube one-handed




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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