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Kaboom! Russian Drone With Thermite Grenade Blows Up a Billion Dollars of Ukranian Ammo

07/31/17, 05:21 AM | Other Topics | drones
Kyle Mizokami for Popular Mechanics: A drone carrying a grenade infiltrated an ammunition dump in the Ukraine, setting off an explosion that caused an astounding billion dollars worth of damage.

Amazon Enlists Researchers to Build Box-Packing Robots

07/28/17, 05:53 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | amazon, Collaborative Robots, Pick and place
Joshua Brustein for Bloomberg: Teams competing in Amazon's third-annual contest tackle a problem that has kept companies from automating warehouses entirely.

Open Board for 3D Gesture Control, Motion Capturing, Tracking and Robotics

07/27/17, 05:51 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | motion control
Action, gesture, motion, and robots can be kept under control through a wearable, small but powerful electronic board.

Teaching Drones How To Crash Safely

07/26/17, 05:40 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | drones, Technology Discussions, unmanned
Simon Parkin for MIT Technology Review: Drone delivery wont happen until the unmanned vehicle can master the emergency landing.

As California's labor shortage grows, farmers race to replace workers with robots

07/24/17, 05:37 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | Agriculture
Geoffrey Mohan for LA Times: Now, the $47-billion agriculture industry is trying to bring technological innovation up to warp speed before it runs out of low-wage immigrant workers.

Robotics experts dismiss Musk's call for AI regulation

07/21/17, 05:46 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence, Collaborative Robots, deep learning
Steve LeVine for AXIOS: Musk, along with Bill Gates and Stephen Hawking, has been one of the leading voices warning of a dystopian, machine-led future if humans are not careful.

Elon Musk: 'Robots will be able to do everything better than us'

07/19/17, 05:30 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | Artificial Intelligence, deep learning
Catherine Clifford for CNBC: "There certainly will be job disruption. Because what's going to happen is robots will be able to do everything better than us. ... I mean all of us,"

Professor Michael Gennert Looks Back at a First Decade of Robotics Engineering Program

07/17/17, 05:50 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | Training and Education
WPI.edu: The programs stature as a successful academic pioneer in the robotics field has grown worldwide

The Drone Racing League (DRL) Builds The Fastest Racing Drone

07/14/17, 05:40 AM | Other Topics | drones
DRL Sets the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM Title for the Fastest Ground Speed by a Battery-powered Remote-controlled Quadcopter

Is robotics the key to repairing societal infrastructure?

07/13/17, 12:34 PM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | service robots
Chris Middleton for Diginomica: If a countrys national infrastructure is in disrepair - and most of them are - then could the robot revolution be the answer?

How a One-Man Team from California Won NASA's Space Robotics Challenge

07/12/17, 05:44 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | nasa, ros
Evan Ackerman for IEEE Spectrum: In NASA's Space Robotics Challenge, participants had to command a virtual Valkyrie robot to perform a series of repair tasks in a simulated Mars base hit by a dust storm.

Spider robots on the move for additive manufacturing

07/11/17, 05:50 AM | Industrial Robotics, Factory Automation | Additive Manufacturing, Collaborative Robots
Stuart Nathan for The Engineer: Like several concepts in mobile additive manufacture, the Spider bots grew out of a concept to build bases for exploration on the Moon and other planets.

New Army technology enables simultaneous multiple drone control

07/10/17, 05:38 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | drones, Military and Security
Kris Osborn for Defense Systems: "SCORCH is a system consisting of intelligent UAS autonomous behaviors and an advanced user interface that allows a single operator to effectively control up to three UAS simultaneously,"

Teaching Robots to 'Feel with Their Eyes'

07/07/17, 05:54 AM | Industrial Robotics, Mobile Robots | soft robotics, Technology Discussions, Training and Education
Penns School of Engineering and Applied Science: Burka hopes to build up a database of one thousand surfaces to help coach robots on how to identify objects and also to know what theyre made of and how best to handle them.

Torc Robotics unveils self-driving system for consumer cars

07/06/17, 05:44 AM | Mobile Robots, Other Topics | autonomous vehicles, self driving
Darrell Etherington for TechCrunch: Now Torc is setting its sights on the consumer car market, with a self-driving car project based on its decade of experience

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