Saturday, October 27, 2018

Robopocalyse Report #109

Drones:

The US Senate passed a bill allowing the gov to destroy private drones.

Watch what happens when as drone slams into an aircraft wing.

Aeromao's new Talon drone is amphibious.

DHL has been using its ParcelCopter UAV in Tanzania.

Disney has developed spray painting drones.

Drones can be used to make art.

Dronebase is teaming up with other companies to check hurricane damage.

A drone cannon is showing how dangerous are to aircraft.

An editorial on the self flying taxis (passenger drones) of the future.

Mud spraying drones could make cheap housing.

Stanford researchers appear to have developed drones called FlyCroTugs that can carry 40 times their weight.

UAVOS announced its pseudo satellite UAV completed its first stage of flight testing.

Uber's food delivering drone service may start in 2021.

Russian sidecar (for motorcycles!) manufacturer, Ural, has built a drone station into a sidecar offering.

Self Driving Cars:

The moral conundrum of self driving cars is hereWho should they prioritize for saving?

The Trump administration is reportedly withdrawing support for 10 self driving car test sites.

The NHTSA has stated fully autonomous self driving cars can hit the road as part of a pilot program.

The NHTSA has ordered self driving school bus company Transdev to shut down its pilot program.

The USDOT has stated drivers of self driving vehicles need not be people.

In the European Union, self driving car data will be copyrighted by the manufacturer.

Self driving cars could make humans even more unhealthy.

Can the trolley problem help self driving car developers?

People are overestimating what the driver assist programs can do and assuming they are fully self driving modes for their cars.

People keep rear ending self driving cars.

Can the automotive businesses of Detroit adapt to the advantages of Silicon Valley?

The Human Driving Association is rearing its head again in opposition to self driving cars.

Adison Lee may launch its self driving taxis in London by 2021.

Audi and Huawei have teamed up to work on self driving cars in China.

Aurora, the self driving car startup, as received permission to test its cars in Pennsylvania.

A biology inspired camera might be a great help to self driving cars.

Cadillac's software performs better than Tesla.

Drive.ai carting people around Arlington, TX, including to and from football games.

Ford invested in a micro weather company to support its self driving tech.

Ford is testing its self driving cars in Washington, DC, the first manufacturer to do so.

Does GM's Cruise have problems spotting pedestrians?

Honda has invested over $2 billion in GMs Cruise.

Talks between Honda and Waymo for the use of self driving tech seem to have faltered.

Lyft bought a British AR company to improve its self driving car efforts.

A self driving Range Rover prototype did well on a difficult route.

Samsung bought a company to prepare 5G for self driving cars.

Tesla is asking its employees to beta test its self driving tech.

Tesla is defending its Autopilot software in its quarterly safety report.

Tesla updated Autopilot, but delayed some big bits.

Tesla shelved the as yet unusable fully self driving mode in Autopilot.

University of Delaware claims to have a new technology that will allow roads to dispense with stop lights and speeding tickets if used for self driving cars.

Waymo has racked up 10 million miles with its self driving cars.

Waymo is turning loose its fully autonomous self driving taxis before the end of the year.

Waymo's self driving cars had a lot of problems in the beginning...especially from Levandowski.  Yes, that Levandowski.

Waymo has published guidelines on how to deal with self driving cars in emergency situations.

3d Printing:

Evaluating different types of 3d printed concrete.

Which fabrics are best for 3d printing?

3d printed...chocolates!

3d printed metallic glass shows some promising benefits.

A 3d printed guitar...

3d printers have 'fingerprints' and that could lead to tracking down where products, like guns, were made.

A 3d printed supercapacitor has broken records.

ICON, the 3d printing concrete construction company, has secured $9M worth of funding.

Residential construction has an enormous potential for 3d printing.

Researchers assess the 3d printability of different types of concerete.

Researchers 3d printed lithium ion batteries.

Robots are collaborating to 3d print concrete structures.

Robotic Factory has added a conveyor belt to its 3d printing offerings.

Singapore announced plans for a very large portside 3d printing facility.

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have a new bioprinting technique that could lead to printing blood vessels.

WASP 3d printed a house from mud.

Robotics:

Amazon is reportedly working on picker robots for its warehouses to reduce the number of employees.


See Spot walk through the construction site.  Walk, Spot.  Walk.


Boston Dynamics is at it again.


And again.

How will the Boston Dynamics Spot Mini be used?

Evolving robot legs makes weirdness.

Gladius has announced a new UUV.

A mobile construction bot builds temporary structures out of stone and twine.


A Japanese robotics company can install drywall.


Researchers from Kyoto University have created a snakebot that can climb ladders.

The magic mirror tells you how to do your makeup.

MIT has found an algorithm that allows robots to navigate like people do.

MIT has also developed nanobots made of graphene.


MIT has also created the Fiber Bots for construction.

People can teach robots.

Rethink Robotics, maker of Baxter, has shutdown.

There is a robotics petting zoo.

Rolls Royce has teamed up with Intel to make autonomous, unmanned cargo ships.

Satellite operators are offering communications for autonomous ships.

UC Berkeley has developed the jumping Salto robot.

UT Austin has found a way to give robots human-like balance.

Wyss Institute has developed a soft robotic arm.

The xArm is a robot intended for smaller businesses.

Cyborgism:

Direct brain to brain links are being worked on. A recent paper shows how noninvasive tech allowed for a shared task (Tetris) to be accomplished between three people.

A prosthetic limb can 'learn' to open beers.

Software bots:

Can algorithms be a tool for justice as well as oppression?

California passed a bill making it illegal for bots to impersonate people.

Amazon scrapped an AI tool developed for recruiting because it showed bias against women.

Baidu thinks they have software bots that can do real time translation.

Does China do AI better than the US?

Google software bots can detect breast cancer more effectively than people can.

A Google backed startup turns advertisements into conversations.

Microsoft is providing its software bots for the Uber competitor, Grab.

MIT developed a software bot to check for fake news.

MIT has also developed a new software bot of their own to detect breast cancer.

A new software bot has been developed to analyze why some children struggle in school.

A software bot has been developed to diagnose Alzheimers.  Some said in five years though.

A software bot has written its own novel about a cross country trip.

Software bots for drug discovery.

Software bots for material science.

Software bots have helped study how people think abstractly.

Software bots for finding gravitional lensing events.

Software bots for improving battery use by apps on phones.

Software bots can be used to monitor single molecules in cells.

Software bots might make your next perfume.

Someone used a software bot to put Harrison Ford into the recent star wars movie 'Solo.'

Software bots can control quantum computers.

A software bot generated a portrait.  It sold for over half a million dollars.

A new software bot has been developed to predict if materials will work as LEDs.

A new software bot has been designed to analyze and attempt to fix software bugs automatically.

A new software bot has been designed to detect insurance fraud from false robberies.

A software bot was pitted against 20 lawyers to find problems in an NDA.  The bot found 94% of them.  The Lawyers found 85%.

A bot made a painting that sold at auction.

Welcome to the uncanny valley.

Automata:

Is automation really democratizing science?

Amazon's cashierless Go store in NYC will be in the financial district.

What is it like inside Amazon Go?

Iron Ox wants to produce produce without people working at all.

A Tokyo warehouse replaced 90% of its staff with automation.

META:

MIT is creating a college dedicated to the study and ethics of AI.

Universal Basic Income is touted as a potential way to mitigate the robopocalypse, but what if it is really a tool to entrap us?

Could the future of work be...good?

The case for giving AI identity.

An AI arms race with China could be a huge mistake.

Look to Africa for AI advancement.

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