Amazon opens new fulfillment center near Seattle, in broader expansion of its delivery network Amazon’s giant 800,000 square-foot fulfillment center in Kent, WA. is open for business. The location, which Amazon plans to fill… Read More
Experts work to turn artificial intelligence into a friendly face – but it doesn’t always succeed Can artificially intelligent robots be our friends? Our helpmates? Our companions? Roboticists and AI researchers are trying to make it… Read More
Amazon hosts secret conference for robotics, AI and space experts Amazon sure seems interested in being involved in the continued development of robots and artificial intelligence. The retailer held an… Read More
Real dog doesn’t back down from robot dog as video catches face-to-face meeting Dogs are not dummies and robots can be scary. That’s the takeaway from a new video uploaded to YouTube by venture… Read More
UW researchers’ robot hand comes creepily close to human functionality You’ve got to hand it to the roboticists at the University of Washington: They’ve built a robotic hand modeled so… Read More
Robotic Lego paper airplane factory folds, launches and amazes We know you’re still beaming over the amount of work you put into that Lego Millennium Falcon, but you should… Read More
Watch a robot solve a Rubik’s Cube in just over 1 second Two humans programmed a robot to solve a Rubik’s Cube in just over one second and in 40 years or so… Read More
Seattle robotics club wants to be a national model for making STEM accessible to all students The push for STEM education is evident in schools, clubs and community centers just about everywhere. But Delaney Foster saw… Read More
Forget self-driving cars, Toyota investing $50M in A.I. to develop ‘intelligent’ vehicles Today, Toyota announced a $50 million, five-year collaboration with Stanford and MIT to develop “intelligent” cars. As the New York Times… Read More
NYT science reporter John Markoff: We shouldn’t worry about robots attacking us Last month, Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak and hundreds of others wrote a letter that detailed their concerns for… Read More
Geek of the Week: Engineering student Rahul Bhardwaj is already giving back With more than 5,000 hours of engineering experience under his belt, college student Rahul Bhardwaj is already giving back to a… Read More
Underwater robotics startup Bluhaptics raises cash for hi-tech subsea devices A new Seattle-based startup spun out of the University of Washington wants to improve the efficiency of subsea operations. Headed… Read More
KUKA and Microsoft team up on internet-connected manufacturing robots Microsoft and industrial robot maker Kuka are bringing the robot apocalypse ever closer with a new collaboration that combines one… Read More
Drones on tour: Portland startup SkyWard teams with NASA to demonstrate value of aerial robots SkyWard, a Portland, Ore., startup that makes software for running networks of drones, is teaming with NASA to conduct demonstrations of… Read More
Video: Robot basketball and a new generation of geeks Washington FIRST Robotics is holding its annual regional competition at the Century Link Events Center in Seattle today and Saturday,… Read More
Geeks Who Give Back: Kevin Ross, Washington FIRST Robotics [Editor’s Note: GeekWire has identified more than a dozen “Geeks Who Give Back” — people who work in non-profits, mentor… Read More
Newsmakers 2011: Yoky Matsuoka links humans to devices, from thermostats to robots Yoky Matsuoka has long been interested in the frontiers of human interaction with machines, exploring new ways for the nervous… Read More
Mind meets machine: $18.5M grant for new UW center to meld humans, devices An $18.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a new Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering… Read More
Nerd Notes: Whales inspire pianos, bugs inspire robots and marijuana inspires Ziggy How to fix any computer by The Oatmeal. Kohler introduces new $6,000 “smart” toilet. The perfect place to spend the… Read More
Geek of the Week: Erica McGillivray, GeekGirlCon We’re kicking off a new feature today, a GeekWire “Geek of the Week” honor for the Pacific Northwest technology community.… Read More
March Madness for Robots (Video) Who cares about basketball when there are robots to watch? The Seattle regionals for the FIRST high-school robotics competition start… Read More
