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Robots on campus help students and staff increase productivity between classes Calgary, AB (April 1, 2015) — SAIT Polytechnic has taken steps to ensure students and staff can safely navigate around campus without looking up from their cell phones and other devices. The Walk-a-Bot program began as a pilot project last month with six robots available to rent by anyone with a SAIT student or […] Read More

See the post on theverge, about navigating drones. Read More

During a recent event in New York, Google CEO argued that AI is here not to take away our jobs, but to make our lives better, at the same time reorganizing the way new jobs are created. You can read about the report on Newsweek here. Google recently acquired several robotics and AI companies, the ones that made headlines the most were the acquisition of […] Read More

Computer scientists have created a low-cost, autonomous micro-robot which in large numbers can replicate the behaviour of swarming honeybees Colias – named after a genus of butterfly – is an open-platform system that can be used to investigate collective behaviours and applied to swarm applications. Robotic swarms that take inspiration from nature have become a topic of fascination for robotics researchers, whose aim is to […] Read More

Apparently not being feasible enough, Microsoft decided to shut down its robotics division, IEEE reports. The company was known in robotics field, especially with its software, Microsoft robotics studio. We currently have no information if this software will also be discontinued or not. Currently it is a full functioning software and download is freely available. Read More

MIT guys are at it again… This time it is a robot cheetah… It can run at speeds up to 10 mph (16 kmh) and can jump over obstacles of considerable heights, in comparison to its height. The robot also demonstrates for the first time that electrically powered motors can be used to operate this kind of operation, instead of internal combustion engines, which were […] Read More

A navy drone called “Triton”, just flew across the US, Washington Post reported. The drone was able to climb up to the heights of 50,000 feet and will be mainly used for surveillance missions. Read More

This robot turns concrete into materials that can be reused in concrete   http://www.core77.com/blog/idsa/2013_idsa_idea_winners_our_gold_faves_omer_haciomeroglus_ero_concrete_recycling_robot_25186.asp Read More

Our website was hacked by some hackers today. We have now took care of the situation and back to normal. Thank you for being with us. Read More

Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, whenever we invented an automated technology, or something that would be done by machines instead of humans, we always feared that it would cause unemployment. Yet it didn’t. The workforce simply shifted from performing lower level, manual jobs to ones that required more intelligence. Is it still true, given that firms, such as Google, are acquiring AI companies […] Read More