Robopocalypse #114

Drones:

Airbus drones will deliver to ships offshore first.

The Drone Racing League will air on NBC and Twitter.

Drones are the future of flying, even in airliners.

Harman has patented drones with speakers.

Koala spotting drones do a better job at counting the marsupials in the wild than people do.

An integrated battery in the wing greatly increases drone flight times.

Meet MetaFly.

The Drive took Sikorsky's self flying helicopter for a fly.

Quadcopters are being used to catch winged drones at sea.

Sikorsky's self flying helicopter hints at the future.

UPS is delivering medical supplies between hospitals via drone.

Self Driving Cars:

AAA states 75% of Americans are scared to ride in self driving cars.

Autonomous vehicles could be a boon or bust for the environment.

Self driving cars might hit darker skinned people more often than light. Yikes.  Or click bait?

Self driving car safety steps into the unknown.

Self driving shuttles are coming to New York and California.

How would hacked self driving cars affect New York traffic?

The complex problem of writing a driving test for self driving cars.

BMW and Daimler will collaborate on self driving car tech.

Designated Driver is the latest entrant into remotely driving cars.

Drive.ai may be looking for a buyer.

E/Nride demoed driving a delivery truck 1,200 miles away.

Ford's self driving cars may be headed to Texas.

German automakers are set to spend $60 billion on self driving and electric car tech.

GM is investing $300M in a Michigan autoplant for EV and autonomous cars.

GM is doubling the size of its Cruise self driving car division.

A new nighttime camera will improve the productivity of self driving trucks.

Nuro will start delivering groceries with its self driving cars in Houston.

Proterra's self driving buses will leave a place for the driver.

Stanford's latest self driving car prototype handles the unexpected better.

Tesla is being accused of shifting the goal posts on declaring its cars able to fully self drive and that 'full self drive' is not what you think it is.

Tesla has angered self driving car experts with its claims they are offering a truly self driving vehicle.

Some are countering back the experts are missing the point.

A dashcam showed a Tesla steering for a center lane divide again.

Tesla is suing a former employee that left and went to XiaoPeng Motors, a self driving company, for supposedly stealing 300k lines of Autopilot code.

Tesla is also suing Zoox.

Tesla has created an enhanced Summon mode.

Toyota has been testing if cameras can map cities for self driving cars.

Toyota will also test its self driving car tech in an Nvidia's virtual environment.

Trump apparently wants nothing to do with the 'crazy' self driving cars.

Uber will not face criminal charges for the death of the homeless woman in Arizona.  10 lessons from the lethal accident.  One year later, self driving cars soldier on.

USC is making self driving cars safer.

Volvo is testing two self driving buses in Singapore.

Waymo self driving cars will respond to police hand signals.

Waymo is selling its lidar tech.

Waymo is opening a servicing center in Phoenix for its self driving cars.

3d Printing:

Boeing has 3d printed a satellite antenna allowing for savings in material, time and cost.

Brown University has come up with a 3d printable hydrogel.

California State University researchers have been 3d printing ceramic/titanium matrix composites.

Chemists are trying to streamline 4d printable material technique development.

Cranfield University engineers have 3d printed large scale tungsten parts.

Finding "keyholes" in 3d printed metal.

LBNL researchers have been 3d printing liquid in liquids to create 3d fluidic devices.

Mexican researchers have been 3d printing alginate/hydrogels.

A scooter has been made with a 3d printed stainless steel.

Occular implants are being 3d printed.

The oil and gas industry is getting into 3d printing.

ProtoCAM has 3d printed spare parts for carpet looms from the 1930s.

Rutgers has developed a 4d printed material that changes strength based on temperature.

Scientists use light to print with multiple materials.

Singaporean researchers have been printing magnesium scaffolds for bone.

South Korea researchers have successfully 3d printed corneas.

South Korean researchers can 3d print cancerous tissue.

Turn your kids' drawings into 3d printed sculptures.

Scientists have developed an implantable, 3d printed material meant to be a scaffold for bone healing.

Robotics:

Boston Dynamics' Handle robot has been tested in the warehouse.

The Digit robot could be the future of delivery.

Fedex turned to the developer of the Segway for the development of a delivery robot.

A French airport is using robots to park cars.

A Kaiser Permamente doctor told a patient he was going to die via a telepresence robot.

The microorganism, Euglenia, could inspire soft robotics.

Microrobots with legs could walk inside the human body.

MIT's Cheetah bot can now do backflips.

MIT has developed a robotic arm that can pick up objects its never encountered before.

MIT also developed a robotic gripper that acts like a venus flytrap.

Mitsubishi has created an autonomous fire fighting bot.

Mountainview, California's library will be testing a book return robot developed by Google.

The 2020 Olympics in Japan will have robots deployed to help visitors.

Robot camel jockeys are real...

Robots have been developed that act as 'cells' and do not require central control for certain behaviours.  A predecessor to "gray goo?"

A robotic leg learned walk without any prior knowledge.

Using robots to control weeds...autonomously.

Robots are finally learning to run.

Sandia National Labs is using robots to decommission munitions.

Spider silk might be possible to use for robot muscles.

In Switzerland, robots built a house that generates more power than it consumes.

University of Washington researchers developed a robot capable of using a fork.

The US put a record number of robots to work in 2018.

An autonomous UUV is being used to map where phytoplankton is.

Veo Robotics has developed sensors so robots can safely work beside people in factories.

A new fuel cell developed in Washington University at St Louis will greatly extend the range of autonomous robots, drones and UUVs.

A UUV sneaks up on fish.

A Wired writer used haptic feedback gloves and other tech to teleoperate a robot in London, 3,000 miles away.

Cyborgism:

Columbia engineers have directly translated brain signals into speech.

Will cyborgs be made of melanin?

Facebook wants to build a brain reading machine.

Software bots:

ACM awarded the Turing Award to three 'fathers' of the current AI revolution.

40% of startups in Europe that claim to be using AI in their products are not.

How intelligent is AI?

Avatars are getting to be more...advanced.

The $100 BeagleBone board is designed to facilitate the development of "AI" projects.

China is catching up to America in AI research.

Dry.io wants to 'democratize' software development with the use of software bots.

Ebay is using software bots to find similar looking items to buy for its consumers.

Facebook is readying bots to combat revenge porn.

Facebook is vowing better bots to detect terrorist videos.

Google has developed a machine learning bot that can use your data without slurping it up.

Google's Duplex can make restaurant reservations in 43 US states.

Google's DeepMind can predict wind patterns the day before.

Google's Stadia uses a software bot to change the game art in real time.

Bill Gates talked to Google employees about using AI to analyze the unborn for healthcare improvements.

Huwei has big plans to break the US grip on leadership in developing "AI" and software bots.

IBM has a software bot that conducts a blood test to detect Alzheimer's.

McDonald's bought a software bot company and will use their software to update their drive thru menus.

MIT has developed a new algorithm that has vastly increased the speed of neural network learning.

Microsoft has created a software bot to match patients with medical trials.

Microsoft has launched an AI business school.

How does a neural net work?

Neural nets are being used to analyze proteins.

Nvidia's latest bots can take a 2d sketch to create a realistic landscape picture.

To compete with Google, OpenAI seeks investors.

A group at Politecnico di Milano as developed a new circuit to accelerate AI work.

Could software bots and satellites predict volcanic eruptions?

Software bots are being used in conservation biology.

Software bots can monitor twitter for security vulnerabilities.

Software bots used to generate images are doing so with fewer labels.

A software bot has been developed in Taiwan to fact check conversations in real time and interrupt those conversations.

A software bot might be able to pick out the best shade makeup for women.

Can software bots help solve quantum mechanics problems?

Software bots have become better gamers than people are.

Software bots still have a different uncanny valley to cross: voices.

Software bots are "shockingly good" at science.

Will software bots be able to tell when someone is about to die?

Software bots for medicine have a place but have long been predicted.

Software bots need data from people to learn.  Some are upset about this.  Children do the same thing, fwiw.

Using machine learning software bots to predict brackets in March Madness is insanely competitive, too.

Stanford has unveiled an AI institute.

Time Warner has signed an algorithm for a record deal.  Wait.  What?!

Automata:

Automation threatens 1.5 million jobs in Britain.

Employment has fallen in jobs that can be easily automated.

The MGM in Las Vegas is considering replacing workers with automation, including robots.

Pepsico is laying off LOTS of people while automating.

Robots that are faster than the workers demoralizes the workers.

Self designing robots?

META:

Will 3d printing and customization of manufacturing kill off warehouses?

Can we build ethics into automated systems?

Some are arguing the 'moral machine' is not a valid starting point for making policy for self driving cars.

People can be more cooperative if they program robots than if they are doing the task themselves.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is excited by the robopocalypse in her South by Southwest interview.

Will machines own us in the robopocalypse?

Some people are starting to think AI could make better decisions than politicians.

Robopocalypse Report #110

Drones:

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Drones can provide the police with a surprising amount of data.

Drones can produce some stunning photography.

A DARPA kit converts any helicopter into being self flying.

The FAA is restricting drone flights near US Navy sub bases.

CyPhy wants to tether drones.

DJI drones have security vulnerabilities that could turn them into spies in the sky.

Some DJI Matrice 200 drones are falling out of the sky.

Drone swarms could help find hikers without GPS.

Hovermap is mapping underground spaces with drones.

Intel's drones will join the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

A test in Maryland demonstrated drones can carry donated organs without damaging them.

Nissan's Sentinel rescue truck concept has a drone launcher.

Roborace's self driving racing league will not drive self driving cars the first season.

Stanford drones can carry far more than their own weight.

Vanuatu is delivering vaccines to remote islands via drone. 

Self Driving Cars:

Have we been talking about self driving cars all wrong?

Tech companies are paying Kenyans to teach self driving cars how to drive.

Self driving vehicles might shape the future of urban tourism.

How DO self driving cars see the road?

Robotaxis are coming.  Why are we not preparing?

The Brits claim they will have self driving taxis and buses by 2021, refusing to be left behind by the Americans, Chinese and Japanese.

Einride's self driving, electric truck is already earning money.

Ford is working with Baidu to test self driving cars in China.

Ford views its future as including a self driving taxi service and deliveries.

Muji and Sensible 4 have teamed up to deploy all weather self driving shuttle bus.

Tesla rolled out an update to Autopilot for highway driving.

Did Tesla oversell its Autopilot capabilities?

Tesla's Summon function has the car drive itself in parking lots.

Uber is applying to be allowed to put its self driving cars back on the road.

Waymo has permission to put its fully autonomous self driving cars on the road in California.

A Waymo self driving car had an accident, but the human in the car was, supposedly, to blame.

Waymo may launch its self driving car service in the suburbs of Phoenix in early December.

3d Printing:

Watch 3d printed heart tissue beat.

Will 3d printed foods with probiotics make it to your table?

A 3d printed mammoth skeleton replica is for sale.

Concrete printing and 3d knitting have produced a sculpture in Mexico City.

Multiple component composites can now be 3d printed.

Wood furniture waste has been recycled into a 3d printable material.

Pulped paper has been made into a 3d printable material, too.

UL and Georgia Tech are investigating how much 3d printing pollutes indoor air.

A 3d printed dental implant shows promise over its traditionally made equivalents.

Researchers are 3d printing lunar regolith simulant into useful parts.

BigRep has 3d printed a prototype electric motorcycle.

Organs 3d printed from living cells could boost the senses.

Robotics:

More info here.

ABB will build a factory in China to use robots to build robots for the Asian market.

Furhat Robotics is trying to cross the uncanny valley.

Google is shutting down Schaft Robotics after failing to find a buyer for the firm.  Google bought Boston Dynamics and Schaft for some unknown purpose, but failed to find a use for their robots.  They found a buyer for Boston Dynamics, but not Schaft.  I have to wonder if Google didn't actually do serious harm to the development of nextgen robots by its ill-advised procurements.

iRobot has teamed up with Google to study your house.   Yes, really.

LG is turning loose self driving shopping carts in South Korea.

Madeline Gannon is a roboticist teaching them to act more like animals.

Supposedly, this mopping robot can sense and avoid dog poo.

This is how NASA plans to use robots to produce fuel on Mars.

Robots will attempt to reseed chunks of the Great Barrier Reef with coral larvae.

A robotic arm might help rehabilitate sufferers from chronic strokes.

Stanford has developed a electronic glove to give robots a sense of touch.

Starship has launched its robot package delivery service in London.

Toyota put a pizza making robot in the back of a hydrogen powered truck.

Teams will compete to in an XPRIZE to map the ocean floor with autonomous underwater vehicles.

Cyborgism:

German scientists have created an artificial "skin" that can point north.

Kaspersky Software is warning brain implants might be hackable.

Some scientists are growing organoids of brain tissue and connecting them to robots.

Other scientists have 3d printed bacteria into mushrooms to create electricity from light.

A brain computer interface gives the paralyzed the ability to control a tablet.

Software bots:

The US Commerce Department may regulate the sale of software bots to certain countries.

Is AI/ML hitting a wall of meaning?

The AI/ML revolution is a whole lot of old ideas being run on much faster hardware.

There are calls to teach AI common sense: the problem is common sense isn't.

What IS a bot?

One of the father's of modern "AI" is worried about its future.

20th Century Fox is using software bots to attempt to predict whether people will watch a movie based on its trailer.

Amazon now has all it needs to create popular bot generated fiction.

Apple has bought privacy minded bot company Silky Road.

Boston attempted to use software bots to optimize its bus schedule & routes.  What was learned from the experience?

China has deployed software bots on their news programs, replacing TV anchors.

Should you allow your children to be 'friends' with Alexa and other digital assistants?

Digital assistants like Siri and Alexa have yet to find their niche.

eHarmony is planning a software bot to prevent people from ghosting one another.

The European Union is testing an experimental lie detector software bot to screen people traveling to the EU.

Will Fei Fei Li make AI better for people?

Google is using a software bot to categorize and digitize millions of historical photos from the New York Times.

Google has promised $25M for software bot/AI research to solve social problems.

Google will take back DeepMind's health business.

Google will be rolling out is Duplex AI to select owners of the Pixel phone is certain cities.

INRS and the University of Sussex used software bots to tailor light sources.

Mercedes' research into software bots could improve package delivery.

MIT offers how to make AI less biased.

Russian researchers have developed a neural net based not for 3d metal printing.

Samsung has opened its Bixby digital assistant to developers.

Samsung's new chips have a dedicated section for "AI."

Software bots help accelerate malaria research.

Software bots can ID animals that deadly pathogens hide in.

Software bots can predict Alzheimer's years before formal diagnosis.

A new software bot can condense data from thousands of scientific papers.

A software bot is being used to create new materials.

Can software bots learn languages like a child does?

Software bots are being developed to find deep fake videos.

Software bots may solve bottlenecks in drug research.

Software bots can and do fail at analyzing data across multiple health care systems.

Software bots are being trained with video games.

Software bots help improve detection of new particles at the LHC.

Software bots may help ID the root cause of religious conflict?

Software bots can determine atomic positions in record time.

Software bot created portrait fetched over $400k at auction.

How much do software bots drive the narrative during news events?

Can software bots actually make art?

Software bots are being adopted by DIYers.

Software bots are now able to generate fake finger prints to trick biometric scanners.

Can software bots help people who have suffered trauma give court testimony?

Software bots greatly increase people's exposure to negative and inflammatory information on social networks.

Software bots are sorting which patients need immediate emergency admission to hospitals.

Could software bots help with the crush of peer review?

There's a software bot that will help make your resume more competitive.

Wired showed just about anyone can use software bots to create art.

Automata:

7-11 is testing Amazon Go-like cashierless stores in 14 locations.

Amazon is hiring less seasonal workers this year...due to robots making them unnecessary.

Amazon Go is the inevitable evolution of supermarket shopping.

Walmart wants to open an Amazon Go style Sam's Club.

META:

Japan is both obsessed with and resistant to the robopocalypse.

How Boston Dynamics' videos become hits.

Making the robopocalypse work for Africa's farmers.

Robopocalypse #87

Drones:

Facebook flew its giant communications drone for the first time.

Delivery drones might be paired with trucks.

There is a drone racing kit.

Airbus has been using drones for aircraft inspections.

Amazon has patented the idea of using lamp post lights to charge drones.

A Utah company claims to have the world's fast commercially available drone.

Self Driving Cars:

Ford is investing in a company making maps for self driving cars.

Tesla has stated one of the recent crashes did NOT have the Autopilot engaged.

In fact, Tesla is claiming Autopilot saved the life of a pedestrian.

And Tesla has unveiled its revised master plan.

Germany will require blackboxes for self driving cars.

Mercedes showed off its self driving bus.

Jaguar will start testing its self driving cars in Britain.

China is trying to put a halt to self driving car testing until they get the regulations in place.

Farmers are fighting for the right to fix their own tractors.  John Deere has stated the tractors only come with an operation for life license instead of true ownership.

3d Printing:

Exploring superconducting properties of 3d printed objects.

The culinary institute of america has been experimenting with 3d printing food.

3d printing being applied to meta materials.

A new company claims it has a 3d printer eliminating the post processing step.

Robotics:

One bot cooked a bunch of brats...tailgating threatened by the robopocalypse now?

Robotic furniture too!

There is a robot for feeding the paralyzed.

There is a robot for massage.

The RNC received 20 robots for bomb disposal just in case at the convention.

A new method for building swimming microbots has been created.

Robots can now move like centipedes.

Software Bots:

A new Baidu developed bot creates music based on pictures.

Machine learning is being used for hunting for virus reservoirs in bats.

The Amazon Echo might have been wire tapped.

Google is attempting to use a software bot to improve the cooling efficiency of its data centers.

Exoskeletons:

The future of exoskeletons might be skin tight suits.

There is a downloadable 3d printable exoskeleton. 

Cyborgism:

ASU has developed a system for a person to mentally control a swarm of drones.  Hiro?  Is that you?

A cyborg robot made from sea slug muscles and 3d printed parts moves.

META:

Robots and humans working together, mass hysteria!

Does the robopocalypse have a white guy problem?

Robopocalypse #69: For a Good Time, Ping Erica's IP Address

Drones:

AirMule had its first untethered flights.

The FAA may be extending the no fly zone for drones to within 30 miles of the US Capitol in Washington, DC.  The Obamas had a slight encounter with a drone in Hawaii.

The FAA is considering requiring satellite tracking of beyond visual range flying drones to help with the problems with encountering aircraft.

The next big regulatory battleground for drones is at the state and local level.

Illegal drone activity is about to get clamped down on in Scotland.

Canada is getting ready to clamp down on drones, too.

Britain is leading the police using drones.

China is exploring the use of thrust vectoring for drones.

Drones may not be used for hunting in Arizona.

But in New Zealand, there's a company that has made drones for fishing. 

Then there is the Vuze.

Classes are starting to crop up for drone piloting.  One such is in Concord, CA.

Uganda is looking at using drones for enhancing food security.

DJI has unveiled its geofencing software.

Drones might be able to avoid collisions by sharing data.

Drone use on public lands can cause controversy.

Intel wants to do for drones what it did for the PC.  More info here.

Ford is challenging developers to create a drone to car interface.

Drone racing is becoming a thing.

Parrot is starting to sell a fixed wing drone.

Wisconsin insurer Acuity will start using drones.

Amazon and ParcelHero news.

Self Driving Cars:

GM and Lyft are teaming up for self driving car sharing vehicles.

A Japanese company, Robot Taxi, is testing a self driving car on a South Korean university campus.

How Silicon Valley and Detroit are teaming up for self driving cars.

Kia is getting into the self driving car business.

Delphi's self driving car tech gets a profiling.

Ford is showing off its self driving cars at CES.

The rise of the self driving car is being called inevitable.  I'm not sure I disagree, actually.

here's an opinion piece that the future is self driving vehicles and its a good future.

Here's one take on what to expect in 2016 for self driving cars.

Baby boomers are the most hesitant to get in a self driving car.  Oh irony!  They are the ones who will need them the most (other than teenagers).

Tennessee wants to play catch-up to Texas and California for testing self driving cars.

Here's one way to make maps for self driving cars.  Toyota will do its own way.

Volvo is continuing to tout its future concepts for self driving cars and will have a semi autonomous driving capability standard in the S90 shortly.

Self driving buses are touted again.  Some Brits are looking at the idea of replacing bus drivers with bots is not a good one.

Daimler's self driving truck gets profiled again.

NXP has developed a radar the size of a postage stamp for cars. 

Robotics:

Singapore has come up with the Uncanny Valley Receptionist, Nadine.

Because Japan.  Meet Erica...the sexiest robot.  shudder.

The underwater bot to hunt and kill the Crown of Thorns starfish invading the Great Barrier Reef gets a revisit.

The Robopocalypse has come for the slaughter house in New Zealand.

Momentum Machines, rumor has it, is finally putting the burgertron in a restaurant at 680 Folsom, in San Francisco.

There's also a $2 P&J sandwich bot,  called BistroBot, that's a bit buggie but in SF as well.

Knightscope’s K5 security bots are coming for the security guard.  Eventually.

Disney is working on wall climbing bots.  I bet its to catch those dastardly people violating Mickey's copyright!

SWAT Teams may have bot team members in the future.

RoboMaster has some significant potential for lumber construction.

The Chinese are fretting over lagging behind with service robots relative to foreign countries.

Yet the Japanese think the future with household service bots is still a ways off.

Then again, there's the Gourmia. Well, its a step up from the regular appliance.

And Leka is a social robot.  Another one.

Blue River Technology has just raised $17 M worth of investment in its latest round.

Segway is getting into the robotics business.

More sensors are available for bots, in this case to look inside luggage.

3d Printing:

5 things to watch for in 3d printing in 2016.

What are the countermeasures for 3d printing IP theft?

Welsh researchers have successfully printed cartilage.

HRL Laboratories has come up with a method to 3d print ceramics.

Taiwan Tech has developed a 3d printer for a smart phone.

Optical components can potentially be 3d printed now.

MakerBot is attempting to try once more for the 3d printing space.

Software Bots:

Zuckerberg wants a Jarvis.

Will lawyers get replaced by software bots?  *whispers*Baby Cooper Dollar Bill*

Cyborgism:

The University of Washington has received a grant for a brain implant to allow the paralyzed to move again.

Sensors developed for prosthetics might have interesting knock on effects.

Brain computer interface for cars is being developed.

Militaria:

The US Marine Corps has decided the Boston Dynamics Big Dog is too noisy to take into combat.  Note, the mule is pretty outdated and the marines might look at the replacements.

The US Army is testing bots to detect chemical and biological weapons.

The Russians plan on 30% of their firepower coming from robots in 10 years (we'll see).  More on Russia's Uran-9.

There are three different scenarios (as envisioned) for robotic warfare: Skynet, Swarms and Centaurs.

Economics and Philosophy:

This is how you beat a dead robotic horse.

Some think the Robopocalypse is really the salvation of the world.

Should a property tax be what governments shift to with the Robopocalypse instead of an income tax?

What sort of progress DID the robopocalypse make this past year?

The Robopocalypse and the farmer in 2015.

Robopocalypse #27: The Era of the Self Driving Car is HERE...well, for Teslas

Drones:

Here's a piece pumping up the prospects for drones. 

There's a new drone racing event in Utah.

The US Forest Service may get a ban in place for forest fires for drones.

California Governor Brown vetoed a bill that would restrict drones.  He gets blasted by the Oakland Tribune for doing so.

A quick run down of the crimes being committed using drones in the UK, at least in a few areas.  Using drones to record the PINs of people's ATMs seems a bit odd: is the drone going to snag the card, too?

DARPA wants a drone to deliver supplies and then self destructs completely, preferably evaporating, in its Icarus project.

Drones are a perfect thing for software developers.

Self Driving Cars:

Tesla released the software update for its 'Autopilot.'

Why self driving cars should NEVER be fully autonomous.

Self driving car manufacturers are looking at the ethical decisions for the software running the cars.

Motor Trend took their first ride in a Google self driving Lexus.

Looks like all self driving car manufacturers will be accepting liability for accidents (and here, too).  However, I imagine if you hack the firmware, that will be null and void.

Here's more on General Motors decision to jump into the self driving car sector.

Looking outside the US and first world, how will self driving cars fare in...Nigeria.

In the fantastical, here's a self driving hybrid sports car concept with a drone.  really.

Self driving buses will start testing in Singpore and California in 2016.

3d Printing:

A new bot has been designed and prototyped for 3d printing houses economically.

One company's claims of the promise of 3d printing housing.

A pavilion at an expo in China was 3d printed.

Nike is predicting 3d printing of shoes is not too far away.  Talk about a shake up in the supply chain if true.

3d printing is slowing taking on the catwalk.  One can foresee where not just shoes, but also clothing is 3d printed.

The US Postal Service looked at its revenue future with an eye to 3d printing.

Tungsten is now a 3d printable material.

umm.  yeah: a 3d printed bikini that cleans the ocean as you swim.  Just think of where that ... crud ... will be.  again, umm, yeah.

Robotics:

What happens when you cross a Cyclon with a unicycle and give at job at UPS?

Komatsu is working with SkyCatch to bring robo dozers guided by drones to construction sites.

Will this German robot fly aboard the International Space Station?

Meet DORA, the telepresence bot that mimics your point of view motions. 

Also meet Fabricator, a construction bot.

We've already met, SAM, the bricklaying bot, but it's moved up to Buffalo, NY for a job and causing the masons NOT working with the bot to compete John Henry style to keep up.

Salina, Kansas had a bot stolen from a construction site.

The first robot farm is set to be built in Kyoto, Japan.

Another learning bot here from the University of Bremen and it might run the restaurant of the future.

Another soft bot premiers, but this one changes color as it moves.

People prefer 'flawed' bots.

Exoskeletons:

The Europeans are developing an exoskeleton for the elderly.

Software Bots:

Japan is pushing for AI based tools to deal with cyber attacks.

Siri can be hacked from a distance.

Cyborgism:

Cyberpunk, the cyborg enhancement movement seems to be calling themselves 'Grinders.'  hmm.

Economics:

Robots may be coming for your job and that might not be bad news. 

What jobs WILL the bots take?

Philosophy:

Countering the Singularity Silliness.