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Feb 9, 2021

“I’m in fourth grade, I built a robotic sanitizer dispenser”

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I was inspired to make a robotic hand sanitizer dispenser after I was at the hospital in June 2020 when my sister was born.

Feb 9, 2021

The computers rejecting your job application

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Is it fair for a computer alone to accept or reject your job application? Welcome to the fast-growing world of AI recruitment.


A growing number of firms are using artificial intelligence to pass or fail jobseekers.

Feb 9, 2021

Sophia, the talking humanoid robot, is being readied for mass production during the pandemic

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“The world of COVID-19 is going to need more and more automation to keep people safe,” Hanson Robotics founder David Hanson said.


Hanson Robotics says more automation is needed during the pandemic. It has now started mass production of its humanoid robot, Sophia.

Feb 8, 2021

AI Reads Human Emotions. Should it?

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Circa 2020


AI can read your emotional response to advertising and your facial expressions in a job interview. But if it can already do all this, what happens next? In part two of a series on emotion AI, Jennifer Strong and the team at MIT Technology Review explore the implications of how it’s used and where it’s heading in the future. This episode was reported and produced by Jennifer Strong, Karen Hao, Tate Ryan-Mosley, and Emma Cillekens. We had help from Benji Rosen. We’re edited by Michael Reilly and Gideon Lichfield.

Feb 8, 2021

Deepfake detectors can be defeated, computer scientists show for the first time

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Systems designed to detect deepfakes—videos that manipulate real-life footage via artificial intelligence—can be deceived, computer scientists showed for the first time at the WACV 2021 conference which took place online Jan. 5 to 92021.

Feb 8, 2021

MIT is building a ‘one-stop shop’ for 3D-printing robots

Posted by in categories: drones, robotics/AI

Additive manufacturing has proven an ideal solution for certain tasks, but the technology still lacks more traditional methods in a number of categories. One of the biggest is the requirement for post-printing assembly. 3D printers can create extremely complex components, but an outside party (be it human or machine) is required to put them together.

MIT’s CSAIL department this week showcased “LaserFactory,” a new project that attempts to develop robotics, drones and other machines than can be fabricated as part of a “one-stop shop.” The system is comprised of a software kit and hardware platform designed to create structures and assemble circuitry and sensors for the machine.

A more fully realized version of the project will be showcased at an event in May, but the team is pulling back the curtain a bit to show what the concept looks like in practice. Here’s a breakdown from CSAIL’s page:

Feb 8, 2021

Dr. Julie Marble — JHU Applied Physics Lab — Human-Autonomy Interaction, Collaboration and Trust

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Human-Autonomy Interaction, Collaboration and Trust — Dr. Julie Marble, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory (APL)


Dr. Julie Marble is a senior scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHUAPL) leading research in human-autonomy interaction, collaboration and trust.

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Feb 8, 2021

Chemistry and computer science join forces to apply artificial intelligence to chemical reactions

Posted by in categories: chemistry, robotics/AI, science

In the past few years, researchers have turned increasingly to data science techniques to aid problem-solving in organic synthesis.

Feb 8, 2021

DARPA Project Drives Simulation Technology for Off-Road Unmanned Vehicles

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

DARPA’s Robotic Autonomy in Complex Environments with Resiliency — Simulation (RACER-Sim) project is seeking innovations in technologies that bridge the gap from simulation to the real world and significantly reduce the cost of off-road autonomy development. DARPA invites proposals for promising solutions that support these goals.

Feb 8, 2021

DARPA Opens Door to Producing “Unimaginable” Designs for DoD

Posted by in categories: mathematics, robotics/AI, space

DARPA’s TRAnsformative DESign (TRADES) program, which began in 2017, set out to develop foundational design tools needed to explore the vast space opened by new materials and additive manufacturing processes commonly called 3D printing. The program recently concluded having successfully developed new mathematics and computational techniques, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, that will allow future designers to create previously unimaginable shapes and structures of interest to defense and commercial manufacturing.