Articles about Robotics – Page 7 of 7

Neither Trump nor Clinton is addressing the biggest challenge to jobs: automation

Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both promising to bring good-paying jobs back to America, but analysts say neither… Read More

Pick a winner: Dutch robot rises to Amazon Challenge by grabbing and stowing items the best

Amazon warehouse workers got a glimpse of a potential future co-worker over the holiday weekend when a new champion was crowned… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Solstice Social Good, Future of Robotics, Rails for Women Workshop

Community organizers will kick off a new initiative, Solstice Social Good, in conjunction with Seattle’s annual Fremont Solstice festival, on… Read More

How to train your robot: Treat it like a dog

To figure out the best way for a robot to move, designers have turned to snakes, cheetahs, fish and even… Read More

UW team creates robotic hand that learns to become more dexterous than yours

Pianists, surgeons, typists, gamers and baton-twirlers all learn to use their hands more skillfully as they ply their trade, but what… Read More

This robot surgeon does a superhuman job on sutures – but there’s a catch

Researchers have programmed a robot to sew up intestines autonomously, with more precision than the typical human surgeon achieves. Right now,… Read More

Why your robotic surgeon will have a human overlord looking over its shoulder

A surgeon peers into a high-definition monitor, studies the ragged edge of a heart valve, and twiddles her fingers in a… Read More

BluHaptics wins $747,000 grant to create 3-D piloting system for underwater robots

BluHaptics has received a $747,197 grant from the National Science Foundation to work on a virtual-reality robotic control system that… Read More

Robots for sale? Price drop in the android market could open new frontiers for AI

Artificial intelligence and robots are hot topics right now, but will we ever get to the stage we saw 50… Read More

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