Researchers have created origami-inspired artificial muscles that add strength to soft robots, allowing them to lift objects that are up to 1,000 times their own weight using only air or water pressure. The team constructed dozens of muscles using materials ranging from metal springs to packing foam to sheets of plastic, and experimented with different …
Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, answered questions about the future of Artificial Intelligence and quantum computers and robots. Highlights from Schmidt – * The rise of China will be the big news for the rest of our lives… in an economic, cultural, structural sense. * China’s artificial intelligence machine-learning policy – behind right …
Researchers have made external actuators to help squeeze blood through the heart’s own chamber. This means the patient would need minimal use of anticoagulants. Running heart through pumps requires a lot of anticlotting medicine. They are working improving portability and miniaturization of the components. Their will be long term trials on animals. Researchers have made …
UC Berkeley professor Stuart Russell and the Future of Life Institute have created video titled “Slaughterbots” that depicts a future in which humans develop small, hand-sized drones that are programmed to identify and eliminate designated targets. The Berkeley professor fears this particular scenario but it is not that big a deal. He and his people …
Canada’s Loblaw supermarkets is pre-ordering 25 Tesla electric trucks by placing a $5000 downpayment on each. They will also convert all of their fleet of 350 trucks to Tesla electric trucks by 2030. Tesla will not complete their first trucks until 2019. Platooning will be revolutionary in cost with energy efficiency and fewer jobs In …
Founded in 2010, B-TEMIA is a privately-owned dermoskeletic technology company. Based in Quebec City, Canada, B-TEMIA develops, manufactures and commercializes cutting-edge products in the growing market of human augmentation systems. B-TEMIA’s proprietary wearable Dermoskeleton™ technology provides the user with robotized mechanical support to restore, maintain or enhance the mobility of users, with applications in the …
SpotMini is a small four-legged robot that comfortably fits in an office or home. It weighs 25 kg (30 kg if you include the arm). SpotMini is all-electric and canA go for about 90 minutes on a charge, depending on what it is doing. SpotMini is the quietest robot we have built. It has no …
PwC research estimates global GDP could be up to 14% higher in 2030 as a result of AI – the equivalent of an additional $15.7 trillion – making it the biggest commercial opportunity in today’s fast changing economy. $6.6 trillion is likely to come from increased productivity and $9.1 trillion is likely to come from …
The Russian army plans to buy the combat robot Nerekhta, said Colonel Oleg Pomazuev, head of the department of innovation research at the Main Directorate of Research Activities (GU NID) of the Ministry of Defense. Three modules were developed for the platform: combat, transport and artillery reconnaissance. The combat module in various versions is equipped …
South Korea will open a test bed road for self-driving cars to allow companies and researchers to check their cars in a real road environment, the transport ministry said Monday. The 320,000 square meter facility, called “K-City,” has been under construction in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province with some 11 billion won ($9.77 million) being injected into …
Roobo, maker of artificial intelligence robots, raised $53 million in a Series B funding round led by Seven Seas Partners, a Chinese VC. This is in addition to the $100 million raised last year. The managing partner of Seven Seas, Jeff Xiong Minghua, who was Tencent’s CTO for eight years, will become Roobo’s new CEO. …