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Starship Technologies launches autonomous robot delivery services for campuses

“Starship Technologies, a robotics startup created by Skype’s cofounders, has launched a large-scale commercial autonomous delivery service aimed at corporate and academic campuses in Europe and the U.S. Founded out of Estonia, Starship Technologies has initiated myriad autonomous …

A Flexible Arduino Prototype

“We recently visited NextFlex, the flexible electronics manufacturing institute in Silicon Valley, where they developed a flexible prototype based on the Arduino Mini. Their mission is to make flexible electronics mainstream, opening up all kinds of new applications. How did …

Microsoft sinks data centre off Orkney

“Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea off Orkney to investigate whether it can boost energy efficiency. The data centre, a white cylinder containing computers, could sit on the sea floor for up to five years. An undersea …

Penn Neurosurgeons and Otolaryngologists Perform First-in-World Robot-Assisted Spinal Surgery

“Robotic approach assists with a three-part, two-day complex procedure for rare tumor removal Noah Pernikoff is back to his life in New York City after becoming the first patient in the world to undergo a complex three-part, robotic-assisted surgery. The …

4-meter Tall Ridable Transforming Humanoid Robot “J-deite RIDE” Unveiled

“J-deite Ride LLP, Asratec Corp. (“Asratec”, a robot software company of the SoftBank Group),Sansei Technologies, Inc. (“Sanesi”), and BRAVE ROBOTICS Inc. (“BRAVE ROBOTICS”) announced a prototype of the ridable transforming humanoid robot “J-deite RIDE”. J-deite RIDE is a 4-meter …

A new JPEG format for virtual reality, drones and self-driving cars

“Why do virtual reality headsets make users nauseous? One reason is latency, or the almost imperceptible amount of time it takes for a display image to change in response to a user’s head movement. However, the Joint Photographic Experts …

Software Automatically Generates Knitting Instructions for 3-D Shapes

“CMU Researchers Foresee Machines Capable of On-Demand Knitting Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists have developed a system that can translate a wide variety of 3-D shapes into stitch-by-stitch instructions that enable a computer-controlled knitting machine to automatically produce those shapes …

First in the World Graffiti Drone

“First in the world graffiti-drone with entirely autonomous. The project actualized for “Evolution 2.1” exhibition took place at Winzavod. The drone created the whole exposition. The performance was going live in huge exposition workshop. The project was done in …

IBM has made the world’s smallest computer, and it’s just absurd

“If there’s one downside to powerful computers, it’s that they’re too damn big. Luckily, that’s about to change. At least, if IBM has anything to say about it. March 19 is the first day of IBM …

DHL to Deploy Robots, Drones, Virtual Reality to Speed up Deliveries

“DHL is employing a variety of new technologies to deliver packages faster and give consumers more options when it comes to where and when they want their packages arrive. As part of an innovation showcase media event here on March …