National Robotics Week Kicks Off (April 7-15)
by Matthew Henshon | 4/6/2012 11:36 AM |
National Robotics Weeks starts tomorrow (April 7) and runs through April 15, 2012. For more information, and to find events in your area, see:
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Google Presents Video of Legally-Blind Man "Driving Car"
by Matthew Henshon | 3/30/2012 12:13 PM |
Continuing to expand its self-driving car project, Google recently posted new video of a legally-blind man (Steve Mahan, CEO of the Santa Clara Valley Blind Center in San Jose, California) "driving" a driver-less car. The video is posted below:...
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Watson + iPad = Deep Thunder Weather App
by Matthew Henshon | 3/16/2012 10:15 AM |
IBM recently introduced its latest Watson application: building detailed weather models that can be accessed from an iPad. (Watson is the supercomputer that recently defeated a series of champs, including Ken Jennings, on Jeopardy!) IBM uses data from...
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Open Source Medical Robotics
by Matthew Henshon | 3/16/2012 9:49 AM |
The Economist recently reported on the Raven, a brand-new open-source medical robot developed for use on battlefields. Unlike the more widely-known Da Vinci, the Raven is built with open-source (Linux-based) software, meaning that it will be accessible...
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Drones Define "The Obama Doctrine"
by Matthew Henshon | 3/9/2012 9:37 AM |
In a lengthy piece in this month Foreign Policy Magazine (www.foreignpolicy.com), author David Rohde argues that the use of drones -- in particular their use against high-value targets -- has defined an "Obama Doctrine." He goes on to weight...
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