
Amazon Tests Robots for Warehouse Item Picking
At last week’s ICRA 2015 conference, an international forum for robotics researchers, Amazon hosted the “Amazon Picking Challenge,” where robots from 27 entrants from around

At last week’s ICRA 2015 conference, an international forum for robotics researchers, Amazon hosted the “Amazon Picking Challenge,” where robots from 27 entrants from around

I’m guessing it’s summer. My father stands barechested in front of me, but he’s still wearing his work pants, and he looks a bit sweaty,

We’re only a few days into 2014, but “wearables” — as in wearable computers or devices — seems to be the early contender for buzz
With the holidays around the corner, this was a relatively quiet week for news. And I suspect many of you are already in vacation mode,
Last Friday, news came out that Google bought Boston Dynamics, a robotics company based in Waltham, MA. Boston Dynamics’ tagline is “Changing Your Idea of

Making predictions is risky business. Back in 1966, for example, TIME magazine published an essay that imagined what the world would be like in the