DHL's mail robot carries heavy loads and frees up the hands of delivery workers
DHL is conducting trials of a new autonomous "PostBOT" robot that helps delivery workers by carrying the mail for them. It can deal with loads of up to 330 pounds and keeps close to the deliverer by tracking their legs.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos standing on top of a giant wind turbine is a sight to behold
One way to get more people to hear about your new wind farm is to make a video of yourself standing on top of a turbine and smashing a bottle of champagne on it, which is precisely what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos went and did.
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Newly discovered moon cave could house mankind’s first lunar colony
After decades of speculation, a team of researchers has confirmed a vast lava tube beneath the lunar surface. Geological formations like this could one day be used as a moon base to shelter astronauts.
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Astrophysicists want to shield Earth from solar flares with … a giant magnet?
A huge solar flare could hit Earth in the next century, and these scientists think a massive loop of conducive wire could save us from destruction.
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Filled with liquid metal, this robot skin is more sensitive than the real thing
Engineers at the University of Washington have developed a flexible, sensitive skin for robots which could make them better at everything from moving objects in a warehouse to carrying out surgery.
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Wiral is a cable cam that takes GoPro videos to the next level
Cable cam systems are expensive and too big to carry around -- but the Wiral Lite is aiming to change that with a compact design. The Kickstarter campaign was fully funded in just three minutes.
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Propel Star Wars Battle Drones review
Love Star Wars? Love video games? Love drones? Then you’re going to love the Propel Star Wars Battle Drones. With details usually found only on collectibles, these Star Wars ships fly and dogfight with each other. Can you say, “Red Five standing by”?
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Throat-reading voice ID system can’t be tricked by impressions or recordings
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a voice-reading security system that's able to identify who's speaking not just by what they say, but by how their throat moves when they say it.
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The Virtual Singapore project aims to digitize an entire city
It’s a wildly ambitious concept: to create a working virtual 3D model of an entire metropolitan city with highly advanced visualization tools and the ability to analyze data in real time. Dassault Systémes is partnering with the city of Singapore to accomplish Virtual Singapore.
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Google’s AlphaGo Zero AI quickly masters ancient board game with no human help
Google's DeepMind has just unveiled a newer, shinier, smarter version of AlphaGo called AlphaGo Zero, a program that quickly managed to master the ancient board game Go without any help from humans.
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In sneak preview, Adobe shows off tech for automatically colorizing old photos
From automatically cloning objects out of video to instantly colorizing black-and-white images, Adobe is working on new tools that could greatly speed up workflows for all types of visual artists.
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The Sensel Morph giant touchpad is now available starting at $299
The Sensel Morph's touchpad overlay system has the potential to provide a familiar, but deeper and much more customizable way to interact with all sorts of programs and applications.
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