Your weekly selection of awesome robot videosVideo Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming …
Electrical muscle stimulation can speed up human reflexes. But can we use it without giving up control of our bodies?We’re used to seeing robots with reflexes that are much faster …
SkyWater Technology Foundry produces first wafers in a drive to match performance of cutting-edge silicon chips Here’s something you don’t see very often at government-sponsored technology meetings—spontaneous applause. It happened …
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Banks, agricultural companies, and utilities are hiring more tech employees than ever beforeWhere are the tech jobs? Not necessarily where you would think. That’s the conclusion of Indeed economist Andrew …
Satellite start-up UbiquitiLink’s patented technology allows ordinary cellphones to use satellites like cell towers, bringing cheap messaging to millions“Tens of thousands of people every year die because they have no …
Dramatic cuts to the budget of the state’s only public university put its engineering programs in jeopardyTwo thousand students enrolled in the University of Alaska’s engineering colleges in Fairbanks and …
Giant, instrumented pens will monitor the health of millions of fish and feed them automaticallyTucked within Norway’s fjord-riddled coast, nearly 3,500 fish pens corral upwards of 400 million salmon and …
In this webcast SANS analyst Kevin Garvey explores key features of cloud-based firewalls and how they differ from more traditional firewalls.As organizations begin their migrations to the cloud, security needs …
Trap-jaw ants inspired these small, autonomous swarm robotsSmall robots are appealing because they’re simple, cheap, and it’s easy to make a lot of them. Unfortunately, being simple and cheap means …