Tag: Robots
A smart second skin gets all the power it needs from...
Wei Gao, California Institute of Technology
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Skin is the largest organ of the...
What Amazon’s decision to retrain a third of its employees means...
Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S....
How to prevent the ‘robot apocalypse’ from ending labor as we...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Elisabeth Reynolds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of...
Sex robots are here, but laws aren’t keeping up with the...
Francis X. Shen, University of Minnesota
The robots are here. Are the “sexbots” close behind?
From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots...
Looking for a high-tech gift for a young child? Think playgrounds,...
Marina Umaschi Bers, Tufts University
Shopping for a new high-tech gift for the child in your life this holiday season? It’s easy to be overwhelmed...
How robot math and smartphones led researchers to a drug discovery...
Ian Haydon, University of Washington
Robotic movement can be awkward.
For us humans, a healthy brain handles all the minute details of bodily motion without demanding...
Young doctors struggle to learn robotic surgery – so they are...
Matt Beane, University of California, Santa Barbara
Artificial intelligence and robotics spell massive changes to the world of work. These technologies can automate new tasks,...
Blade Runner’s chillingly prescient vision of the future
Marsha Gordon, North Carolina State University
Can corporations become so powerful that they dictate the way we feel? Can machines get mad – like, really...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
