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“Billionaire Elon Musk is known for his futuristic ideas and his latest suggestion might just save us from being irrelevant as artificial intelligence (AI) grows more prominent. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO said on Monday that humans need to merge …
“A team of University of Colorado Boulder engineers has developed a scalable manufactured metamaterial — an engineered material with extraordinary properties not found in nature — to act as a kind of air conditioning system for structures. It has the ability to …
“Solar power is now cheaper than coal in some parts of the world. In less than a decade, it’s likely to be the lowest-cost option almost everywhere. In 2016, countries from Chile to the United Arab Emirates broke records …
“My personal challenge for 2016 was to build a simple AI to run my home — like Jarvis in Iron Man. My goal was to learn about the state of artificial intelligence — where we’re further along than people realize and …
“Recent technological advances have made the longstanding dream of on-orbit robotic servicing of satellites a near-term possibility. The potential advantages of that unprecedented capability are enormous. Instead of designing their satellites to accommodate the harsh reality that, once launched, their …
“German consumer electronics retailer Media Markt is testing using robots to make home delivery of goods faster and more cost effective, although for now they have to be accompanied by a human minder. As ecommerce booms and shoppers expect ever-speedier …
“By 2020, just four years from now, we expect to see 50 billion connected devices1 generating more than two zettabytes of data traffic annually2. That dramatic growth means increasing opportunities for our foundry business, and, more important, for our customers …
“Last weekend at the Qingdao Beer Festival in Shandong, China, 1,007 robots bopped and shimmied their way to a new world record for the Most robots dancing simultaneously. Named QRC-2, each of the 43.8 cm tall dancing …
News London inventor of new omni-directional wheels says his prototype is better than existing products
“Big wheels keep on turning – forwards, backwards, sideways and diagonally. That’s the idea behind Londoner William Liddiard’s new invention, an evolution of the omni-directional wheel. It allows for a vehicle to turn 360 degrees without any friction, as …
“Hardware, Tools, Income, Passions, Clouds, Startups, Location… We had many questions for those who identify themselves as hardware makers and IoT developers, and we wanted to do this right. So we reached out to 25 of the world’s top …