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A Japanese Probe Is About to Drop Two Hopping Robots Onto Asteroid Ryugu
Curated from www.space.com - September 24th, 2018 by RobotShop

The Hayabusa2 spacecraft will drop two tiny rovers onto the asteroid Ryugu this week, possibly as early as Thursday (Sept. 20), if all goes according to plan.

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Soft exosuit with multiple joints tunes itself to individual users
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - September 24th, 2018 by RobotShop

Soft exosuit with multiple joints tunes itself to individual users

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Tiny, Health-Monitoring Technology Could Help Save Lives
Curated from futurism.com - September 24th, 2018 by RobotShop

Wearable, health-monitoring technology like Apple Watches don't just offer an array of high-tech functions, they may even save your life one day.

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Siemen's Self-Driving Street Car Puts Autonomous Tech on Track
Curated from www.wired.com - September 22nd, 2018 by RobotShop

Siemens is developing autonomous tech with transit vehicles on tracks, making the self-driving challenge simpler but still worth solving.

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Eye-Tracking Glasses Are All You Need to Control This Drone
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - September 22nd, 2018 by RobotShop

This method of flying drones is one of the easiest we've ever pointed our eyeballs at

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Moxi Prototype from Diligent Robotics Starts Helping Out in Hospitals
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - September 22nd, 2018 by RobotShop

Diligent Robotics demos the latest version of their healthcare support robot

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New NASA Satellite's Lasers Will Track Tiny Changes in Polar Ice
Curated from www.wired.com - September 21st, 2018 by RobotShop

NASA's ICESat-2 will watch over the planet's polar ice to improve forecasts of sea level rise.

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Machines will do more tasks than humans by 2025: WEF
Curated from phys.org - September 21st, 2018 by RobotShop

Robots will handle 52 percent of current work tasks by 2025, almost twice as many as now, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study said Monday.

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Freaky Robotic Skin Brings Inanimate Objects to Life
Curated from gizmodo.com - September 21st, 2018 by RobotShop

Freaky Robotic Skin Brings Inanimate Objects to Life

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Glimpse: How Electronic Tattoos Will Change The World — And Ourselves
Curated from futurism.com - September 21st, 2018 by RobotShop

Engineers have invented a new kind of 3D printer that can print electronic tattoos directly on your skin. Here's how we'll use it.

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Learn To Make Robotic Music With Moritz
Curated from makezine.com - September 21st, 2018 by RobotShop

Get your groove on with some old junk

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Super Magnesium alloy: Lighter than aluminum and cheaper than carbon fiber
Curated from newatlas.com - September 20th, 2018 by RobotShop

The creators of a new high-strength, low-weight metal alloy hope it will find a place as a midpoint between carbon fiber and lightweight aluminum in bicycle manufacture. Allite Super Magnesium​ is lighter and stiffer than aluminum, but not as expensive as carbon fiber.

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How machine learning and sensors are helping farmers boost yields
Curated from www.technologyreview.com - September 20th, 2018 by RobotShop

Software that optimizes seed selection, reduces fertilizer use, and detects early signs of disease is revolutionizing agriculture.

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Yale’s Robot Hand Copies How Your Fingers Work to Improve Object Manipulation
Curated from spectrum.ieee.org - September 20th, 2018 by RobotShop

These robotic fingers can turn friction on and off to make it easier to manipulate objects with one hand

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What We Have to Gain From Making Machines More Human
Curated from singularityhub.com - September 20th, 2018 by RobotShop

If machines could bring emotional and intellectual capacities to our interactions with them, how would this affect the way we use and relate to them?

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JAXA plans to send robot avatars with human-like hands to space
Curated from www.engadget.com - September 20th, 2018 by RobotShop

JAXA unveiled the Avatar X project in early September, revealing its plans to send humanoid machines controlled by human operators to space

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To Solve Flying Cars' Battery Problem, Tie Them to Power Lines
Curated from www.wired.com - September 19th, 2018 by RobotShop

To get around concerns of battery capacity and weight, Karman Electric wants flying cars to draw juice from the ground, like an inverted streetcar system.

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OTTO OMEGA self-driving forklift debuts at IMTS
Curated from www.therobotreport.com - September 19th, 2018 by RobotShop

OTTO OMEGA, a self-driving forklift from OTTO Motors, debuted at IMTS. It's designed to help reduce materials handling reduce costs and increase throughput.

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A New Robotic Fly Dips and Dives Like the Real Thing
Curated from www.wired.com - September 19th, 2018 by RobotShop

Inspired by a fruit fly, this tiny robot insect manages to twist and bank with astonishing speed.

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BMW’s Self-Driving Motorcycle Could Help Keep Bikers Safe
Curated from futurism.com - September 19th, 2018 by RobotShop

BMW's self-driving motorcycle can start, stop, and navigate all by itself, but the company says creating a fully autonomous vehicle wasn't its intention.

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A plan to advance AI by exploring the minds of children
Curated from www.technologyreview.com - September 19th, 2018 by RobotShop

Cognitive science and neuroscience could inspire the next big innovations in artificial intelligence, says the head of an ambitious new MIT-led research project.

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Why we love robotic dogs, puppets and dolls
Curated from phys.org - September 19th, 2018 by RobotShop

There's a lot of hype around the release of Sony's latest robotic dog. It's called Aibo, and is promoted as using artificial intelligence to respond to people looking at it, talking to it and touching it.

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Legal and Safety Issues Are Looming Around Ethics, AI, and Robots
Curated from www.roboticsbusinessreview.com - September 19th, 2018 by RobotShop

As AI evolves, getting algorithms to 'show its work' on how decision-making happens will be key when accidents occur, says RoboBusiness speaker.

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Here’s how graphene could make future electronics superfast
Curated from www.sciencenews.org - September 19th, 2018 by RobotShop

Graphene-based electronics that operate at terahertz frequencies would be much speedier successors to today’s silicon-based devices.

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