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3D-printed smart gel changes shape when exposed to light Moravec‘s Paradox

3D-printed smart gel changes shape when exposed to light

Inspired by the color-changing skin of cuttlefish, octopuses and squids, Rutgers engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that changes shape when exposed to light, becomes "artificial muscle" and may lead to new military camouflage, soft robotics and flexible displays. The engineers also developed a 3D-printed stretchy material that can…
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January 5, 2021
OSN’s Box of Wonders promises to offer region’s fastest content discovery Moravec‘s Paradox

OSN’s Box of Wonders promises to offer region’s fastest content discovery

DUBAI: OSN has launched Box of Wonders, which aims to transform the region’s entertainment offering. It promises the fastest content discovery for customers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), in just three clicks. Using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to optimize the user experience, Box of Wonders…
bubmag
January 4, 2021
Over One-Third of the Global Industrial Robots Were Manufactured in China Moravec‘s Paradox

Over One-Third of the Global Industrial Robots Were Manufactured in China

Source: Weibo China’s robotics industry saw rapid growth this year. According to a report released by Buy Shares, there were 381,000 units of industrial robots globally as of September 2020. China accounted for 140,500 of them, more than one-third of the industrial robots sold worldwide. As the Robotics Research Group…
bubmag
January 4, 2021
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated Launches January 21 for Mobile Moravec‘s Paradox

SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated Launches January 21 for Mobile

by William D'Angelo , posted 1 day ago / 1,166 Views Publisher HandyGames and developer Purple Lamp Studios announced SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated will launch for iOS and Android on January 21 for $8.99. The game is out now for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox…
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January 3, 2021
Chinese Industrial Robot Startup Flexiv Raises $100 Million Moravec‘s Paradox

Chinese Industrial Robot Startup Flexiv Raises $100 Million

Introducing Finley, the fintech newsbot from China Money Network! Using state-of-the-art machine learning technologies, Finley scours the globe for immediately usable data about the latest private equity deals, venture capital funding rounds, and business expansions happening in China. Finley asks: Who's buying whom? What company just raised new capital? What…
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January 1, 2021
Spontaneous robot dances highlight a new kind of order in active matter Moravec‘s Paradox

Spontaneous robot dances highlight a new kind of order in active matter

Predicting when and how collections of particles, robots, or animals become orderly remains a challenge across science and engineering. In the 19th century, scientists and engineers developed the discipline of statistical mechanics, which predicts how groups of simple particles transition between order and disorder, as when a collection of randomly…
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December 31, 2020