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Fast Company
February 2015 |
Language Maven In 2012, Luis von Ahn launched Duolingo, language-teaching software that now has some 50 million users.   |
Wired
June 25, 2007
Clive Thompson |
For Certain Tasks, the Cortex Still Beats the CPU Luis von Ahn's new computer games pair random players to solve a computing problem. |
IndustryWeek
October 21, 2009
Peter Alpern |
Eye Robot Like TVs and laptops, vision-guided systems for manufacturing have gotten smaller, more sophisticated, less expensive and easier to use. |
Information Today
February 9, 2009 |
Milabra Reads and Labels Image Content for Online Media Companies Using Milabra, customers can ensure that image and video content uploaded to their sites is appropriate and legal, and they can serve advertisements in context with the image content on the page. |
Technology Research News
September 10, 2003 |
Neural net tracks skin color Researchers working to give computers and robots the ability to recognize gestures are up against several challenges. Researchers from China have come up with a way to use skin color to detect faces and hands. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Erico Guizzo |
Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds A Google researcher argues that cloud computing could make robots smaller, cheaper, and smarter |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Manuela Veloso on Robot Companions The professor of computer science and member of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University is turning robots from joystick-operated poles on wheels into "CoBots" -- intelligent companions that can navigate and move. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2010 |
The Robot Baby Reality Matrix Some robot babies look real. Some act real. A few do both |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Growing Robots From the Ground Up Patient, long-term investors are encouraged to stay abreast of trends in the robotics field because as people become more comfortable with robots, the field will grow up fast. |
Fast Company
February 13, 2012
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Captcha Companies Cash In On Advertisers It takes a sixth of a minute for you to decipher a squiggly captcha and prove to the Internet you're not a spambot. Now advertisers are elbowing in on those breaks in your browsing. |
Wired
June 2003
Luc Steels |
Roam Free: How Space Perception Seperates Man From Machine Combining sensory perception and spatial reasoning remains elusive, which explains why robots lack a true sense of space. |
Science News
April 16, 2005
Ivars Peterson |
Captcha the Puzzle Computer scientists have worked out an ingenious security scheme that relies on computer programs that can, without further human intervention, automatically generate and grade tests that the computer programs themselves can't easily pass. |
Popular Mechanics
September 2009
Erik Sofge |
3 New Farm Bots Programmed to Pick, Plant and Drive Researchers say the key to the future of industrial farm robots is keeping costs down by adapting existing commercial vehicles instead of building new ones. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2012
Neil Savage |
Soft Robots for Hard Problems Squishy robots may move and manipulate objects in new ways |
National Defense
February 2015
Stew Magnuson |
DARPA Contest Seeking Humanoid Rescue Robot The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's latest robotic challenge calls for a human-shaped robot to carry out a series of search-and-rescue tasks. |
D-Lib
Nov/Dec 2010
Massart et al. |
Taming the Metadata Beast: ILOX Information for Learning Object eXchange, is developed as part of the IMS Learning Object Discovery & Exchange specification specification that aims to facilitate the discovery and retrieval of learning objects stored across more than one collection. |
Technology Research News
May 19, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Evolution Trains Robot Teams Using evolution to teach robots complex behavior could eventually give them the ability to adapt to unfamiliar environments. There's a long way to go, but researchers are laying a foundation. |
National Defense
December 2013
Stew Magnuson |
Simulator to Help Developers Push Robotics Technology Forward A simulator intended to give robot makers a hand during a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency contest is expected to remain an integral part of how developers design the machines in the future. |
IndustryWeek
May 19, 2010 |
Food For Thought in Robot Technology As the door swings open for wider use of robots in food processing, advances create a bridge between the digital and physical. |
IndustryWeek
October 1, 2007
John Teresko |
Meet the New Robots The latest generation of robots offers performance advances, growing integration of vision and an enlarging capability to transform manufacturing. |
PC Magazine
January 29, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
Racy Robots Military aircraft inspired the slick-looking designs for a new line of robots from start-up company White Box Robotics. Unlike the predetermined features in most robots, White Box's robots will be designed to let each owner choose what his robot will do. |
PC Magazine
November 29, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Robo Decisions Teaching robots to make more humanlike decisions. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2002
John Teresko |
Robots Evolution At GM and Xerox, new applications are redefining both the strategic value and appearance of robots... |
PC World
October 2, 2006
Eric Butterfield |
The Future of Robots Tomorrow's domestic help at your service. |
Salon.com
February 25, 2002
John Glassie |
Flesh, robots and God Are they becoming us or are we becoming them? One of the world's leading roboticists discusses the machines in our future -- their ability to think, feel, reproduce and achieve personhood... |
IndustryWeek
February 15, 2012
Josh Cable |
The Future of Robotics in Manufacturing: Moving to the Other Side of the Factory To boldly go where they've never gone before, robots will need to become smarter, cheaper and easier to use. The industry could turn to an unlikely source to get there. |
Inc.
November 1, 2009
Jason Del Rey |
Entrepreneurs in the News Aspiring entrepreneurs will get some star treatment with the release of TEN9EIGHT, a documentary opening in AMC theaters this month. |
National Defense
July 2011
Grace V. Jean |
Ground Robots Coming of Age With Expanding Missions It's an exciting time for ground robots as they get more integrated into operations. |
PC Magazine
December 28, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
My Very Own Robot Want to rig your own robot? After more than a year of development, White Box Robotics is preparing to ship its 912 series of customizable robots (shown) in the first quarter of 2005. |
Inc.
April 2006
Chuck Green |
A Record Year For Robots New orders of industrial robots jumped by 23 percent in 2005, thanks in part to growing interest in robots among entrepreneurs. Larger tax credits for purchases of new equipment are driving the trend, as are other factors. |
IndustryWeek
February 15, 2012
Josh Cable |
Industrial Robotics Expand Beyond the Automotive Industry Thanks to the maturation of robotics technology, a growing number of industries are using robots for a wider range of applications. |
National Defense
May 2013
Valerie Insinna |
Opportunities for Non-Military Robots Increase In the last decade, the U.S. military poured money into unmanned ground systems to help protect troops against improvised explosive devices, but the Defense Department won't need all those robots once the war in Afghanistan comes to a close. |
IndustryWeek
November 18, 2009
Peter Alpern |
Panasonic Making Aggressive Robot Push Panasonic is getting serious about robots and has set its sights on sales of $1.1 billion by 2015. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The New Age of Service Robots: From Fighting Fires to Serving Beer R2-D2 and Rosie the robot maid may be coming soon to a home, or nursing home, near you. Thanks to advances in computing and navigation technology, robots -- including sophisticated robot toys and appliances -- are now being developed to serve people directly. |
BusinessWeek
January 14, 2011
Eric Spitznagel |
The Robot in the Next Cubicle The new wave of robots for sale is aimed squarely at the office market. |
Fast Company
Daniel Terdiman |
At The DARPA Challenge, May The Best Robot Win The DARPA Robotics Challenge is in the final round of the three-year competition to crown the human/robot team best able to respond to a man-made or natural disaster were under way. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Timothy Gifford and Anjana Bhat on Using Robots to Help Autistic Children Robots address some of the deficits we know are present in children with autism, especially coordination and social problems. |
