This Animator-Turned-Roboticist Is Making A Universal Language For Robots

“Robot Animator creates a new interface inside Autodesk Maya that’s specific to robotics,” Flessas told me. The software simplifies robotic programming fo...

5 Brain Technologies That Will Shape Our Future

The race to decipher the workings of the human brain, and build new economies around it, is on. Today’s great entrepreneurs – people such as Paul Allen, Jeffrey...

Physicists Set a New Speed Record For Light-Emitting Quantum Dots

Researchers at Duke University have developed a light-emitting device that can be switched on and off up to 90 billion times per second. This 90 GHz is roughly twice the sp...

Robots Are Going To Learn To Play Jazz.

As the band gets into their groove, the guitarist gets ready to rip a solo he’s practiced for endless hours. The crowd knows he’ll pull it off perfectly. That&r...

Paging Dr. Watson: IBM Supercomputer Gains Access To 30 Billion Medical Images

IBM’s Watson supercomputer (and “Jeopardy!” winner) will be processing a lot of broken limbs and tumors in its ultimate quest for sentience. The company a...

Tokyo Film Festival To Showcase ‘Mobile Suit Gundam’

Japan’s genre-spawning robot animation franchise Mobile Suit Gundam will be given a special showcase at this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, organizer...

How Bioengineered Bacteria Could Give Robots A Living Brain

Imagine a future where robots with organic brains could be controlled through their microbiome. That might become reality, if researchers at Virginia Tech can transfer thei...

Diversity In Children’s Apps: ‘Gender Depictions Tend To Be Very Stereotyped’

A growing number of children’s app makers are upping their efforts to ensure their products do a better job of reflecting the diversity of their young audiences. This...

Techno-Visionaries And The Philosopher’s Stone

“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”

– Kurt Vonnegut Read More