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Equalize is a virtual mentor program and pitch competition designed to take national action around the disparity of women academic inventors forming university startups.

Workers’ creativity will provide job security — even as robots take on parts of their roles.

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2021 produced four new scifi books with good hard science underpinning their description of robots and three where there was less science but lots of interesting ideas about robots. Not only are these books enjoyable on their own, fiction can serve as teachable moments in robots and STEM and inspire a robot-obsessed teen to read […]

It’s been a hard year for women all over the world, and I’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to Women in Robotics in 2021, whether you’ve simply shared information about yourself in our community #intros channel, or organized an online event, or made yourself available as an advisor in our pilot mentoring program. […]

Leading robotics experts, including Juan Aparicio and Ken Goldberg, share what they'll be keeping an eye on in 2022.

Startup founders, Big Tech execs, VCs, and tech scholars offer their predictions on how Web3, the metaverse, and other emerging ideas will shape the next year.

Casinos and robots? It must be CES time! A few years ago, the only robots at CES were toys. And as the robot toy makers at Ologic can attest, having your robot featured as the leading image for CES was still no guarantee that your robot would make it into production (AMP is pictured above). […]

From market consolidation to interoperability efforts, leading robotics users, associations, and top suppliers weigh in on the top commercial robotics trends of 2021.

Autonomous driving startups in China are in an arms race to put passengers in their machine-driven vehicles. Every few weeks, news arrives that another major player has got the greenlight to launch a new pilot program or a small-scale service. These press releases, often dotted with regulatory jargon and flowery language to aggrandize the companies’ […]

Autonomy is an unprecedented and transformational opportunity 

🔬 Research summary by Connor Wright, our Partnerships Manager. [Original paper by V. Uday Kumar, A. Mohan, B.Srinivasa S P Kumar, Ramesh Ponnala, B Sateesh, P. Dundy Sai Maruthi] Overview: AI is starting to become a household name in the hiring process for many businesses. While its involvement in the process varies from case to […]

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Automation is reaching more companies, imperiling some jobs and changing the nature of others.

🔬 Research summary by Trisha Ray, an Associate Fellow with the Centre for Security, Strategy and Technology at the Observer Research Foundation, where she works on geopolitics and emerging technologies. [Original paper by Trisha Ray] Overview: AI, experts say, can help “solve” climate change. At the same time, the carbon footprint of emerging technologies like […]

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To demonstrate the potential of chemical dynamics as a computing resource, researchers developed a method for building physical reservoirs based on the electrochemical reactions of solutions placed on electrodes. Polyoxometalate in solution was found to predict periodic signals well. In contrast, distilled water was suitable for solving a second-order nonlinear problem. These findings demonstrate the potential for electrochemical ion reactions in low-cost and energy efficient reservoir computing systems.