Drones:
Aergility is moving its cargo carrying UAV work to the full scale prototype stage.
Amazon patented 'hack proof' delivery drones.
Aspen, Colorado swapped its fireworks display for a drone show for the 4th of July.
AT&T and Verizon are testing using drones as emergency cell towers.
The British Drones Bill may finally be working its way through Parliament. At least to the public consultation stage.
British researchers have a pothole filling drone.
Bularia has developed a cargo drone.
Are cargo drones the way to go for the shipping industry?
Colombia is planning on using drones to wipe out the coca plant.
One Colorado lawmaker wants to make it a felony to fly a drone over a wild fire.
The Commercial Drone Alliance will meet with the House of Representative's Subcommittee on Aviation.
Delft Dynamics is developing a tugboat towline delivery drone.
DJI has partnered with a South Korean telecom to stream drone video.
Drone photography from the POV of architect.
Drones can be used to detect butterfly mines after wars.
Drones are learning to fly themselves.
Drones launching fireworks is a bad idea.
Drones are being used to survey African wild life.
Drone Harmony has an app that automates inspections of cell phone towers.
Dropcopter's drones can improve pollination 60% in 'bad' bee years.
Two drug dealers who were delivering by drone have pled guilty.
Exyn is going to release a drone in a South American mine to map it...without using GPS.
The FAA's new program, LAANC, will cut the time to getting a commercial permit for drones.
The FAA has banned drone flights above prisons and US Coast Guard stations.
Green Peace crashed a superman shaped (yes, superman) into a French nuclear reactor building to 'prove a point.'
An Idaho Falls police officer has been tapped to create a roster of all Idaho state agencies using drones.
Indiana's first responders are increasingly using drones.
Intel's Shooting Star drones were used at Travis AFB in California for a 4th of July celebration.
The International Drone Racing Association has selected the drone for this year.
KT Telecom has unveiled an airship drone for search and rescue.
Medical supply drone delivery company Matternet just got a $16M investment from Boeing.
MIT has developed a chip for micro drones.
Mystic is a bot powered drone that follows you and recognizes gestures.
New Zealand is seeking stricter rules for hobbyist drone users.
NOAA is using drones in the Arctic to monitor the environment.
Ohio is testing using drones to monitor traffic.
Pilsner Urquell used a drone to inspect its beer bottling plant.
Reykjavik residents will see drone delivery of goods expand soon.
A Swedish woman encountered a peeping drone.
Switzerland is seeing a disturbing increase for the number of drone-aircraft incidents.
UNICEF is calling on companies to deliver vaccines via drone in the South Pacific.
The University of Tokyo has created the Dragon drone that can autonomously decide what shape it needs to navigate through terrain.
The USGS is using drones to monitor the craters of the active volcanoes in Hawaii.
Vicksburg, MS' police department got permission from the FAA to use drones.
Volvo is using Luminar's lidar.
Wisconsin police used a drone to save a man from self harm.
Hundreds of drones are on display at the 2018 World Drone Congress.
Wichita police bought a drone for search and rescue, but some are skeptical.
World Economic Forum has launched a drone policy group.
Self Driving Cars:
The gov has blocked a device that can fool the Tesla Autopilot.
Members of the self driving industry have created a group to study the impacts of the technology on society.
A societal impact for self driving cars might be the massive loss of parking fees.
How much could a family potentially save by giving up its car to use a driverless car sharing service?
There are calls for the gov to get the regulations for self driving cars, and autonomous vehicles in general, right.
Some experts believe self driving cars are much further away than people think.
A societal impact for self driving cars might be the massive loss of parking fees.
How much could a family potentially save by giving up its car to use a driverless car sharing service?
There are calls for the gov to get the regulations for self driving cars, and autonomous vehicles in general, right.
Some experts believe self driving cars are much further away than people think.
Self driving cars can have issues telling if people are going to cross the road. Or not.
Is the hype holiday over for self driving cars?
Apple has hired an ex Waymo engineer for its self driving car development.
An ex Apple Employee was charged with trying to steal Apple data for its self driving car project. The employee bought a last second plane ticket to China and was attempting to go work for a startup there. XMotors, the company the employee was hired by, claims no secrets were passed along.
Baidu has built its 100th Apolong self driving bus.
Baidu will be testing 10 of its self driving buses in Japan.
comma.ai, George Hotz's latest insanity, has released its Level 2 autonomy software to retrofit Honda Civics to become self driving cars.
Two of Cruise's self driving Bolts bumped each other, possibly providing the first case of self driving cars having an accident with each other.
Daimler has received permission to test its self driving car tech on the streets of Beijing.
Einride has developed an electric, self driving logging truck.
An ex Apple Employee was charged with trying to steal Apple data for its self driving car project. The employee bought a last second plane ticket to China and was attempting to go work for a startup there. XMotors, the company the employee was hired by, claims no secrets were passed along.
Baidu has built its 100th Apolong self driving bus.
Baidu will be testing 10 of its self driving buses in Japan.
comma.ai, George Hotz's latest insanity, has released its Level 2 autonomy software to retrofit Honda Civics to become self driving cars.
Two of Cruise's self driving Bolts bumped each other, possibly providing the first case of self driving cars having an accident with each other.
Daimler has received permission to test its self driving car tech on the streets of Beijing.
Einride has developed an electric, self driving logging truck.
A 1965 Ford Mustang has been modified to be self driving.
Georgia Tech is using scale RC cars to test self driving tech.
Google's Loon and Wings UAVs have been spun off into their own separate companies like Waymo was.
Kache.ai is a new, secretive startup that may be getting into self driving semis. The funky part? They hired Levandowksi, the engineer in the middle of the self driving car IP theft from Google and Uber. This is the same Levandowski who started a church stating AI was going to be our Messiah. Not kidding.
Mercedes will launch its self driving taxis in California next year. They will be using nvidia's chips and tested somewhere in Silicon Valley.
When will Nissan EVs drive themselves?
nuro and the grocery store Kruger are planning a driverless delivery system.
nuTonomy can now test its self driving cars throughout all of Boston. Previously, it had been restricted to a single area.
Perceptiva automata is trying to make self driving cars safer for pedestrians.
roborace will attempt its first self driving climb at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
StreetDrone announced an open source self driving car software stack.
Tesla Model S and X's will be able to park themselves with the Summon feature. There may be some confusion as it is also being said this is coming to the Model 3.
Uber has started increasing its simulations for its "drivionics" for self driving cars since the accident.
The Uber 'driver' behind the wheel of the self driving car was streaming Hulu at the time of the crash.
Uber is going to restart testing its self driving cars this summer.
Uber has laid off 100 of its employees in the self driving division.
Voyage has selected Enterprise to manage its fleet of self driving cars.
One of Waymo's self driving car testbeds was hit by a red light runner in Arizona.
Waymo has added Jaguar I-Pace's to its self driving car fleet.
British startup Wayve claims to have an algorithm that can learn how to drive in 20 minutes.
Robotics:
Say hello to Disney's stuntbot.
Inside the not Boston Dynamics lab, the Caltech AmberLab, making mad robots, too.
China has new UUVs.
fuRo has an awesome mashup of a bot that will follow you and a scooter. Replace the scooters in SF with these. geez. Much better. Just keep them off the sidewalk.
An autonomous electric ferry is starting service in Norway.
Harvard has developed a cockroach-like bot that can walk on land or water.
Honda has ceased developing the Asimo robot.
KLM has a bot to carry your luggage to the right gate.
A maker created a iphone controlled robot to act as a tug for his Cessna.
MIT's Cheetah bot can now climb stairs with obstacles.
The first MRI guided surgery robot.
Ovis has a self driving suitcase.
Robots have an improved method of picking things up.
Robots still have issues picking up objects. You can help improve their abilities.
Roboticists are delving into biomimicry a lot.
SmokeBot is a robot for firefighters.
Tesla is touting a new type of factory.
An unmanned underwater vehicle was used by search and rescue to find bodies after a tragedy with an Indonesian ferry.
Volvos wants self parking tech for yachts.
3d Printing:
3d printing photosensitive materials is now possible.
3d printing will radically change factories. For real this time.
Prellis Biologics has a way of 3d printing tissue with capillaries.
Rice University is working on 3d printed graphene foam.
The Russians have found a new way to 3d print tissue.
The US Army has applied for a patent on a new 3d printable concrete composition.
Researchers have come up with a way to create custom 3d printed polymers.
Data files for 3d printed weapons are protected as free speech. This is gonna get weird.
USAF is now 3d printing its toilet seats.
Estonian researchers have created a peat mixture to 3d print houses.
Austin based Icon can now 3d print houses up to 800 sq ft in 24 hours.
3d Printing:
3d printing photosensitive materials is now possible.
3d printing will radically change factories. For real this time.
Prellis Biologics has a way of 3d printing tissue with capillaries.
Rice University is working on 3d printed graphene foam.
The Russians have found a new way to 3d print tissue.
The US Army has applied for a patent on a new 3d printable concrete composition.
Researchers have come up with a way to create custom 3d printed polymers.
Data files for 3d printed weapons are protected as free speech. This is gonna get weird.
USAF is now 3d printing its toilet seats.
Estonian researchers have created a peat mixture to 3d print houses.
Austin based Icon can now 3d print houses up to 800 sq ft in 24 hours.
Cyborgism:
MIT has an interface that uses brain control and gestures to control rockets.
There is prosthetic skin that can perceive pain and touch.
There is also a prosthetic ankle that can handle rough terrain.
There is prosthetic skin that can perceive pain and touch.
There is also a prosthetic ankle that can handle rough terrain.
Software Bots:
Amazon has launched a version of Alexa for hotels, starting with Marriots.
Amazon's Alexa for IoS can now use voice commands.
Amazon's Alexa is losing market share in an amazingly horrible way.
Apple has snatched Google's former head of 'AI.'
Baidu has also developed a software bot to detect tumors.
A British judge has suggested using software bots to review social media data.
The British NHS is asking Google to explain its business model for DeepMind Health.
DARPA is funding development of bots that can design computer chips.
Facebook has acquired Bloombury, a software bot for natural language processing.
Facebook has been sending bots into a virtual NYC to improve.
Fuel3d has started testing its facial recognition software.
Google's Cloud TPU's are online for paying users.
Amazon's Alexa for IoS can now use voice commands.
Amazon's Alexa is losing market share in an amazingly horrible way.
Apple has snatched Google's former head of 'AI.'
Baidu has also developed a software bot to detect tumors.
A British judge has suggested using software bots to review social media data.
The British NHS is asking Google to explain its business model for DeepMind Health.
DARPA is funding development of bots that can design computer chips.
Facebook has acquired Bloombury, a software bot for natural language processing.
Facebook has been sending bots into a virtual NYC to improve.
Fuel3d has started testing its facial recognition software.
Google's Cloud TPU's are online for paying users.
Google is attempting to train bots to be able to predict if and when a patient will die.
Google has trained a bot to create 3d models from 2D pictures.
Google Assistant has an upgrade.
Google Home and Chromecast went down for some users.
Google has started publicly testing its Duplex software bot.
Could Google's voice assistant actually handle your next insurance claim?
If a Google bot decides your use of the cloud for your business should be banned, what do you do?
Google's DeepMind can now play Quake III like a person.
Guess has created a store where Alibaba bots can help you put together outfit combinations.
Hinge is using bots to match people for dates.
IBM is laying off a lot of people at its Watson Health unit.
An Instagram Influencer is nothing more than a software bot: she doesn't even exist.
The IRS wants a software bot to secure its data.
Could the first machine learning algorithm able to correctly project extrapolations been found?
Microsoft's Azure face recognition software now works on more than just caucasians.
Microsoft's software bots may help predict natural disasters. Sort of.
MIT has developed a software bot to help with medical image analysis.
MIT also has a software bot that can identify and isolate individual instruments in music.
NVidia has released new tools for software bot developers.
Nvidia has added more containers full of computers for software bots.
Nvidia's bot fixes bad photos by looked at other bad photos.
OpenAI entered its bots into a DOTA 2 competition.
Software bots could be a nightmare for the pharmaceutical industry.
Software bots are being used to create phishing links for hacking your computer.
Software bot generated deep fakes can be detected, for now, by the fact they don't get blinking right.
A software bot is getting predictive for food choices.
Software bots are needed to map roads in real time.
A Software bot has built the largest to date library of intercelluar interactions.
Software bots are being used to help study the brain.
Software bots are being used to ID different types of volcanic ash.
Software bots are being used for ecological studies, IDing, counting, etc. animals.
A software bot has been developed to help predict outcomes for schizophrenia treatments.
Software bots have been developed to help spot protein crystals under a microscope.
Should sports switch to bot referees?
Stanford has a software bot that helps predict the side effects of drugs.
Uber has applied for a patent for a software bot that can tell if a passenger is drunk.
Automata:
Automated systems, including access control, can have drawbacks.
Microsoft is trying to compete with Amazon for personless stores.
The University of Haifa has developed an autonomous system for detecting schools of fish.
Momentum Machines has opened its first burger restaurant in San Francisco.
Why you ought to let a bot make your next meal.
META:
The Robopocalypse might not take your job, but it might make it boring.
One of the potential answers to the robopocalypse has been suggested to be the guaranteed income or universal basic income. Ontario, Canada is conducting an experiment on what happens when a UBI is used.
A call for creating AI to serve humanity rather than replacing it.
The US House of Representatives wants to know when the robopocalypse is coming.
Can AI have values, but not conscience?
Some economists are getting worried because too much time is being spent on discussing whether or not automation will take what jobs rather than planning for what comes after jobs are taken.
MIT also has a software bot that can identify and isolate individual instruments in music.
NVidia has released new tools for software bot developers.
Nvidia has added more containers full of computers for software bots.
Nvidia's bot fixes bad photos by looked at other bad photos.
OpenAI entered its bots into a DOTA 2 competition.
Software bots could be a nightmare for the pharmaceutical industry.
Software bots are being used to create phishing links for hacking your computer.
Software bot generated deep fakes can be detected, for now, by the fact they don't get blinking right.
A software bot is getting predictive for food choices.
Software bots are needed to map roads in real time.
A Software bot has built the largest to date library of intercelluar interactions.
Software bots are being used to help study the brain.
Software bots are being used to ID different types of volcanic ash.
Software bots are being used for ecological studies, IDing, counting, etc. animals.
A software bot has been developed to help predict outcomes for schizophrenia treatments.
Software bots have been developed to help spot protein crystals under a microscope.
Should sports switch to bot referees?
Stanford has a software bot that helps predict the side effects of drugs.
Uber has applied for a patent for a software bot that can tell if a passenger is drunk.
Automata:
Automated systems, including access control, can have drawbacks.
Microsoft is trying to compete with Amazon for personless stores.
The University of Haifa has developed an autonomous system for detecting schools of fish.
Momentum Machines has opened its first burger restaurant in San Francisco.
Why you ought to let a bot make your next meal.
META:
The Robopocalypse might not take your job, but it might make it boring.
One of the potential answers to the robopocalypse has been suggested to be the guaranteed income or universal basic income. Ontario, Canada is conducting an experiment on what happens when a UBI is used.
A call for creating AI to serve humanity rather than replacing it.
The US House of Representatives wants to know when the robopocalypse is coming.
Can AI have values, but not conscience?
Some economists are getting worried because too much time is being spent on discussing whether or not automation will take what jobs rather than planning for what comes after jobs are taken.
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