Moravec‘s Paradox

Today's top stories Automation is increasingly seen as a key IT strategy for competitive advantage, but pitfalls await those who fail to heed precautions. Mevans / Getty Images Across nearly every industry automation is fast becoming king. Whether it’s through IT automation, robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence (AI) or…

We’ve seen both companies and research teams attempt to make modular robots an everyday reality, but, more often than not, they all run into the same problem: the mechanism that allows those devices to connect to each other is complicated and fragile. With a new design called FreeBOT, a team…

November 09, 2020 15:06 ET | Source: InDro Robotics photo-release InDro Robotics cargo license A first in Canada, the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has approved InDro Robotics Inc. to operate a domestic air service, using drones for the carriage of cargo. SALT SPRING ISLAND, British Columbia, Nov. 09, 2020 (GLOBE…

Technology Disruption of Trillions in Value in Oil Related Industries Brian Wang | November 9, 2020 | Ark Invest has a report on Bad Ideas for investing during the 2020s. Ark Invest manages invest ETFs of about $20 billion. ARK’s Invest believes in Autonomous Technology and Robotics, Next Generation Internet,…

Plastic pollution in Australia's waterways. Image: CSIRO The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has announced partnerships with Microsoft, Hobart City Council, and Chemistry Australia to address -- and attempt to end -- Australia's plastics waste issue.Under its plastics mission, CSIRO will work with its partners to develop new…

It’s kind of hard to believe that, of all the wheeled rovers and robots that have been sent from Earth to other places — three crewed Apollo-era lunar rovers to the moon, two Soviet Lunokhods, a Chinese lunar rover-bot, and five wheeled American robots to Mars (one of which is…

I didn’t think Umurangi Generation could find a way to be more entirely my jam. And yet, with a heaping serving of skates, spraypaint and giant killer robots, today’s Macro DLC has managed just that. But alongside a new set of maps, lenses, and a toolset that closes the gap…

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Talk about beginner's luck. Shu Ping Li had never bought a lottery ticket before.Author of the article:Brendan Kelly  •  Montreal GazettePublishing date:Nov 06, 2020  •   •  3 minute readShu Ping Li is shown outside the downtown headquarters of Loto-Québec on Nov. 6, 2020. Photo by Alexandre Canac-Marquis /Loto-QuébecArticle contentWe still…

A “real-life” speed comparison between the iPhone 12 Pro and the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra shows that the Snapdragon 865+ and its 12GB of memory are no match for Apple’s A14 Bionic coupled with just 6GB of RAM. The newest iPhone is always faster than the best available Android flagships,…