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.

Robpocalypse Report #95

Drones:

Apple might be building a fleet of drones to improve its maps.

In Australia, commercial mining drones keep getting attacked by eagles.

Autel Robotics got a bit goofy in an ad for its drones by showing how to use one for cooking Thanksgiving dinner.

Britain has issued new guidelines for drone users.

Drone jacking may become a threat.

Droneshield has an anti drone gun that can take out targets 1.3 miles away.

The French are joining the Dutch by training eagles to take down drones.

The crash of the solar powered Facebook drone is being investigated by the NTSB.

The government is enforcing a no fly zone for drones in the Standing Rock standoff.

MIT's CSAIL has a new drone design system allowing for assymetrical drones.

Mouser announced the first drone for autonomous search and rescue operations.

Parrot drones are being used to monitor the health of drought stricken Sequoia trees.

SlideX announced a new security drone.

Swarms of sensor packed drones could help wind turbine farms.

Self Driving Cars:

Apple has confirmed it is working on self driving cars.

An Audi concept car taught itself how to park.

Canada is getting its own self driving car tests, including by one called, yes, Autonomoose.

comma.ai has open sourced its self driving software for  Hondas.  Reportedly, their hardware will also be open sourced shortly.  This is probably in response to the Feds asking for data about the safety of their system.

Delphi's self driving cars learn from their mistakes.

European self driving car tests are focusing on protecting motorcyclists.

A study was conducted on the expectations of self driving cars vs reality.

GM's new Super cruise functionality has a red flag from the NTSB.

 Honda is previewing its concepts for future sharing transportation.

The International Drone Expo is coming to Los Angeles.

A new test site for self driving cars is being built in Michigan.

Nissan's self driving Leaf is being used in one of its factories.

NuTonomy is taking its self driving car testing to Boston.

An opinion on the future of 'robocars.'

Self driving semis are hitting the road for testing in Ohio.

How self parking works in cars.

Taking back control from from a car in self drive mode may be problematic for drivers.

Tesla shows what is going on with its take on self driving capability and is rolling out its newest software version.

A Tesla was hacked and stolen.

Uber is creating an AI lab to improve its self driving cars.

3d Printing:

3digo is attempting to bring the sharing economy to 3d printers.

A look inside the Japanese 3d printing industry.

We now have a 3d printed motorcycle, the Dagger, from Divergent 3d.

And they also have a 3d printed car.

Why Makerbot failed to spark a 3d printing revolution.

Singaporean researchers have improved ultrasound machines through 3d printed parts.

Spider silk is getting 3d printed now.

Stratasys 3d printed a drone onto very heat resistant electronics.

Robotics:

Alexa can now control a vacuuming bot called NEATO.

Biomimicry strikes again but with the cat's tongue as the inspiration.

A British company has developed two micro robo subs.

In China, there as their first violation by a bot of Asimov's First Law of Robotics.  Has the robot uprising begun?

In Japan, a bot failed its university entrance exams.

Just Eat is beta testing using robots to do food deliveries in London.

Nylon thread has been made into artificial muscles.

A robotic hand has been developed by researchers for quadriplegics.

Robots are being used as proxies to understand the development of human children. 

SALTO is a new jumping robot from UC Berkeley.

Software Bots:

Amazon's Alexa can now hang out on your wrist.

Apple is going to start publishing its AI research.

The British are feeding Google's DeepMind AI its patient data to find highly at risk patients.

Bots can now write classical music.

Bots might make better sales people than, well, people.

Facebook says to not flip out over AI.

Facebook is also developing an AI to look for offensive videos.

Google's DeepMind AI also binged on TV to learn lip reading...better than any human.

This is the sandbox Deep Mind goes to learn.

Google is opening DeepMind up to outside researchers.

Is Google's RAISR image resizing system actually 'dishonest?'

Google Translate is using machine learning to know how to go from one language to another without learning either (and seems to have invented its own language).

Google used its deep learning to diagnose diabetic retinopathy.

Humans fight back and retake the Go champion crown from AI.

Intel's new chips are meant to significantly speed up AI.

Machine learning is being applied to facial recognition.

Microsoft's chatbot for China filters certain topics.

Microsoft has unveiled its Home Hub, an answer to Amazon's software bots, etc.

Microsoft also unveiled its latest  Chatbot: Zo.

MIT is using a software bot to produce videos.

Can a neural net pick out the perfect gift?

Reuters developed a bot to spot fake news.

Now there is Shoegazer to help you find new ...sneakers?!

META:

Amazon has created as cashless, personless grocery store.  You walk in, take something off the shelf and get charged as you walk out the door via your phone.

Will farming be fully automated in the future?

Many CEOs believe the robopocalypse will render the average person irrelevant.

McDonald's is moving to embrace the robopocalypse with the rise of the $15/hr minimum wage.

Stephen Hawking is convinced the robopocalypse means the end of the middle class.

Some are optimistic about the robopocalypse and jobs.

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.

Robopocalypse #26: The Robopocalypse is NIGH! Just ask Musk!

Drones:

Drones capture the flooding of South Carolina.

An activist (somewhat stupidly) dropped anti spy pamphlets on the NSA in Germany using a drone.

Hackers are now using drones to get into your printers, other wireless networks.

It seems peeping toms are officially at it with drones: a drone was spying out the inside of a home in the UK.

A Polish F-16 collided with a drone.  Damage was done to the skin of the fighter and fuel tank.

The FAA is fining Skypan International, a drone photography company, $1.9 million for violating regulations.

Commercial drones converted to flying IEDs might be the next big threat.

California governor signed a statute limiting paparazzi drones while vetoing the inane drone overflight is trespassing  legislation.

A Louisiana man shot down a neighbor's drone stating it was watching his wife.

Nepal is demonstrating humanitarian uses of drones.

Singapore is testing delivering the mail by drone.

Self Driving Cars:

A small self driving bus is being tested in Greece.

Daimler's self driving truck has started driving the Autobahn in Stuttgart (2nd link).  The future is nigh.

What impact could the VW scandal have on self driving cars?

Toyota has unveiled their first self driving car.

Toyota expects to sell self driving cars by 2020.

Here are five places you can take a ride in self driving cars (psst, Japan is launching self driving taxis in 2016).

Musk states self driving cars will be here sooner than you think.  Fortune says the same thing.

Four French self driving cars just made a 360 mile trip with no driver.

The insurance industry may end up driving the adoption of self driving cars.

Volvo is willing to accept full liability if one of their self driving cars gets into an accident. Volkswagon would fake the data and claim the driver hit the petal.

3d Printing:

Adidas is working on a 3d printed shoe.  One where you walk into a store, get measured and leave with a perfectly fitting 3d printed shoe.

Robotics:

Collaborative navigation between two robots is making progress.  When they make this real time and allow the flying bot to recharge off the walker, watch out!

Robots with eyes on their hands may end up being more dexterous.

A robot, using machine learning, figured out how to pick up objects in ten days.

Sensors are having a huge impact on Japanese rice farmers.

Best Buy in New York has a robot sales-erm...person? 

Researchers are studying human walking to improve both prosthetics and bots.

The cleaning bot market is expected to be $2.5 billion annually by 2020.

A new robotic finger enters the uncanny valley. 

There's a new approach to the bathroom sink with the RoboWasher.

Cyborgism:

There has been a breakthrough for implanting electrodes in the brain.

 Software Bot:

Researchers are working on software that will anticipate what you want.

Two bots invented their own spoken language.

The National Science Foundation wants bots that read to kids.

Militaria:

The US Army is testing armed robotic guard towers.

Optimists are stating the United Nations could delay robots taking over warfare.   Yeah right.  lol.

Philosophy & Economics:

Here's a claim there are three things people will always do better than the bots.  At least until we have true AI.

Where will the bots go after the self driving car?

A new white paper states the Robopocalypse is actually good for US manufacturing and jobs.

How the bots are coming for all manufacturing jobs world wide.

Will we accept the robopocalypse?

Robopocalypse #25: Self Driving Chinese Buses Take Over the World!

Drones:

India's Home Ministry has restricted the use of drones for commercial activities.

Drones could reduce the cost of forest conservation.

This science fiction series is being shot entirely with drones.

The FAA is concerned 1 million drones could be sold this Christmas.

Rwanda has approved medical supply deliveries by drone.

Paparazzi are starting to crash events with...drones.

The FAA has missed an important deadline to regulate drones.

Minnesota has started inspecting bridges with drones.

Self Driving Cars:

While everyone is looking at the US for self driving cars, here's China's self driving bus (see video above too).

Tesla will introduce a 1,000 mil range electric vehicle within a year or two and self driving car within 3 years.

Self driving cars could reduce accidents by 90%.

What is it like to ride in Google's self driving car?

How Google plans to roll out its self driving cars.

Who is liable if self driving cars get into an accident?

Volvo as teamed up with Autoliv for developing and testing a self driving car.

Here's a nay-sayer for self driving cars.

Mercedes has announced a plan for self driving limos that could be ordered via a smart phone app.

General Motors is claiming to be taking on Google and Apple for self driving cars now.

Freightliner's self driving truck is garnishing praise.

The Economist takes a gander at how left wing European politicians are reacting to self driving cars.

3d Printing:

The Robopocalypse must be doing something right: Kanye West is terrified of 3d printing. Especially of textiles! Woo!

MDA has begun development of 3d printed satellite antenna's.

Z3DLab has introduced a new 3d printable titanium-ceramic composite.

Two companies have teamed up to 3d print parts that are no longer available for older machinery.

You can now 3d print a functional ion drive.  

Robotics:

Disney has developed inflatable grippers for robots (see above).

The Robogami makes its appearance from École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland.

Researchers in Singapore are making progress is getting robots to be able to assemble an Ikea chair.

Some insight on how Amazon's robopocalyptic warehouses work. In the future, all warehouses will have embraced the robopocalypse even more than Amazon has!

An unmanned surface vehicle and unmanned sub are working together to monitor ocean wildlife.

This bot paints based on where the human eyes look.

Nature talks about squishy bots.

Boston Dynamics' Spot does some "dancing."

A new robotic hand can identify objects through touch.

Here's another look at bots down on the farm.

Dom Indoors wants to completely reconfigure your home in minutes using mini robots.

Computing Advancement & Artificial Intelligence:

A new 'natural computing chip architecture' allows for chips to be trained into functions without explicitly designing them.

 A new AI can pass an IQ test on the level of a 4 year old.

Human Machine Interface:

The question is can we complete a map of the human brain.  Or not.

A student has developed a new glove that translates sign language into speech.

Kurzweil does his thing.