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09/15/2016 / By roboticsnews

Los Angeles magnet school offers robotics specialty courses

Dive Brief: Article by Tara García The Mulholland Robotics Middle School is perhaps the only such middle school to allow students to focus on robotics in every class, and it opened this year inside of the traditional Mulholland middle school as a magnet. EdSource reports the traditional school’s enrollment dropped by 40% over the last […]

09/14/2016 / By roboticsnews

Here’s Why We Need to Stop Freaking Out About Robots Stealing Our Jobs

They’re not taking over, and they don’t want your job. Article by Martha C. White The increasing use of robotics and automation in America tends to worry people, but a new study byGoldman Sachs says this concern is overblown: Technological advances will make some jobs obsolete, but will also open up avenues for new jobs, […]

09/13/2016 / By roboticsnews

Meet your robot colleague: The advance of collaborative robotics

Workplaces where humans labor side by side with robots and other automation systems will become more common in the years ahead, and one of the trends fueling these types of environments is the advancement of collaborative robotics. Article by Bob Violino With collaborative robot applications, humans and robots can occupy the same workspace at the […]

09/08/2016 / By roboticsnews

Team of Robots Learns to Work Together, Without Colliding

When roboticists create behaviors for teams of robots, they first build algorithms that focus on the intended task. Then they wrap safety behaviors around those primary algorithms to keep the machines from running into each other. Each robot is essentially given an invisible bubble that other robots must stay away from. As long as nothing […]

09/07/2016 / By roboticsnews

Sex robots ‘will be better in bed than any human being,’ expert promises

Would you want to make love to the cold, lifeless body of a machine? Article by Rob Waugh It might happen sooner than you expect. Experts are predicting that sex with robots will become widespread within the next decades – and robots could be better in bed than any fleshy partner, an expert has revealed. […]

09/06/2016 / By roboticsnews

Meet Sanbot: the AI robot seeking work as a waiter, security guard or smart-home butler

It can read facial expressions, recognise and respond to complex voice commands and interface with internet-of-things devices in the smart home. Article by Adam Bannister Offering video surveillance functionality too, she (it’s female; the eyelashes are the giveaway) can serve as a very different kind of security guard. It can even detect smoke. Meet Sanbot, a robot […]

09/01/2016 / By roboticsnews

Huge Benefits in Robots, Says Bosch Deepfield Robotics in Germany

FARMERS can improve yields and profits with robotic technology, a German engineering company says. Article by Shannon Twomey Dr Amos Albert, who is the chief executive of Bosch Deepfield Robotics in Germany, discussed the benefits of farming with robotics at a recent global innovations horticulture seminar. Dr Albert said estimates showed agricultural yields needed to […]

08/31/2016 / By roboticsnews

A Robot May Help You Buy a Hammer at Lowe’s

If you go to Lowe’s to buy a hammer or a stack of lumber this fall, you might have a robot offer to help you. Article by Sharon Gaudin The U.S.-based chain of home improvement stores announced Tuesday that, beginning next month, 11 stores in the San Francisco Bay area will begin using autonomous service […]

08/30/2016 / By roboticsnews

Killer Robots, Superior AIs, Car Hacking: Don’t Worry, Be Happy

Landing back in New York from SXSW, I kept hearing Rodney Brooks in my head tell a vividly anxious crowd to calm down as the robotic Judgement Day is way off (maybe by 50 years). While agreeing that media-driven tech hysteria is unproductive, I do think we should be responsive in enacting barriers that prevent […]

08/25/2016 / By roboticsnews

Israeli Students Win 2nd Prize at Chinese Robotics Contest

A group of Israeli high school students came in second place at an international robotics competition in Shanghai, China. (Article by JTA) The students also were granted an “Inspiration Award” in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology Robotics Competition, or FRC, which included 57 teams from Israel, the United States, Canada, Australia, […]

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