Robotics
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Elon Musk demonstrates Neuralink’s tech live using pigs with surgically implanted brain-monitoring devices
Elon Musk -founded Neuralink has made headlines over the past many years around it efforts to develop a new kind…
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Take a closer look at Elon Musk’s Neuralink surgical robot
While the science was front-and-center in Elon Musk’s presentation about Neuralink, his human brain computer inference company, the surgical robot…
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Connected Roombas get smarter with iRobot’s ‘Genius’ update
For iRobot, much of the last several years has been devoted to making its line of home-cleaning robots smarter. There…
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Root AI raises $7.2M seed round to deploy its harvesting robot amid COVID-19-fueled demand
By all accounts, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the adoption of robotics and automation by months, if not years. The…
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The robots occupying our sidewalks
The robot, shaped like a large cooler on wheels, zipped along somewhere ahead of me. My left hand clasped the…
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R&D Roundup: Supercomputer COVID-19 insights, ionic spiderwebs, the whiteness of AI
I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those…
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CMU and Facebook AI Research use machine learning to teach robots to navigate by recognizing objects
Carnegie Mellon today showed off new research into the world of robotic navigation. With help from the team at Facebook…
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Enabling humanoid robot movement with imitation learning and mimicking of animal behaviors
Rish is an entrepreneur and investor. Previously, he was a VC at Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), co-founded a fintech…
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FedEx is utilizing robotic arms to sort packages at a Memphis facility
FedEx has flirted with robotic technologies before, most notably in the case of Roxo. The delivery robot made its debut…
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Activ Surgical raises $15 million to advance autonomous and collaborative robotic surgery
Boston-based startup Activ Surgical has raised a $15 million round of venture funding led by ARTIS ventures, and including LRVHealth,…
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