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Anyone Hear an Echo?
Amazon has announced new Echo smart speaker devices with a host of improved capabilities.
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Video: This Nunchuck-Wielding Robot May be the Future of Industrial Automation
The development could lead to robots being able to handle soft or semi-rigid material such as fruit picking or interior car assembly.
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Watch: Automatic Home Yogurt Maker Launches on Kickstarter
Yomee is an automatic yogurt maker that makes craft-quality yogurt, without preservatives, artificial flavors and added sugars, and it is cheaper than store-bought.
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Automated Packaging Systems Integrates Collaborative Robot
Automated Packaging Systems is partnering with ABB to integrate the Autobag® 500™ bagging system with ABB’s YuMi® robot.
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Video: Portable Smart Speaker Can Be Controlled Via Voice or Touchscreen
Clazio’s Spark can stream music or video and supports Android, Amazon Alexa and Google commands.
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Watch: Dual Spin Mop Robot Released on Kickstarter
The robot mop is designed with automation technology, the world’s first dual-spin mop robot that can clean up floors without human direction.
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Watch: Pet Camera and Kibble Thrower Will Launch on October 17
The Kibble Launcher is equipped with a pet camera so pet owners can see their pet, throw kibbles and play with their pet from a long distance.
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Small Scale Energy Harvesters Have a Bigger Impact than Previously Thought
The team determined how small-scale dimensions impact nonlinear vibrations and PEH voltage harvesting.
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Biodegradable Microsensors for Food Monitoring Developed
A team of researchers, led by Giovanni Salvatore, post-doc in the Electronics Laboratory, has been working with scientists from other ETH institutes on the development of biodegradable microsensors for temperature measurement.
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Video: Will Robots Destabilize the World? New UN Center to Study Threat
The United Nations’ new Centre on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics will address concerns ranging from the benefits these new technologies offer to the downside of possible mass unemployment and the risks of autonomous weapons.
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Rapid, Automated Parts Builder for PCB Design
InstaBuild is a free automated parts builder now available from SnapEDA, an online parts library for PCB design.
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Nvidia Gets into the Drone Delivery Market with JD X Deal
Nvidia has announced a new collaboration with drone maker JD X to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to logistics and delivery using autonomous machines powered by the chipmaker’s Jetson computer module.
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Video: Meet Snapbot a Multi-legged Reconfigurable Robot
Disney Research has produced a robot that enables various types of locomotion depending upon its configuration.
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Philips Lighting and Amazon in Smart Home Lighting Collaboration
Consumers that purchase an Echo Plus will receive a Philips Hue white connected light bulb controlled via Alexa.
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Three New Color LEDs for Horticulture Lighting
Lumileds has expanded its SunPlus 35 line.
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Wireless Charging Facilitates Power Transfer for Ferry
The system, based on inductive power transfer, can transfer more than a MW of electrical energy.
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Triage Process and Patients Benefit from E-Tool
The electronic system offers scope for better identifying critically ill patients and assigning priority treatment levels.
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Hitchhiking Robot Clings to Underwater Surfaces Like a Remora Fish
3D printing was used to create the structure to achieve the proper stiffness.
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Secure Solutions for the Internet of Things
Q&A with Joe Britt, a tech industry veteran who founded Afero as a developer of encryption and authentication technologies for IoT security.
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Torc and Caterpillar Join Forces for Autonomous Mining Trucks
Autonomous mining truck capabilities designed as a retrofit for the Komatsu 930E have been developed by construction and mining equipment manufacturer Caterpillar Inc., working in conjunction with Torc Robotics.
