As labor shortages continue, “robot orders increased 40% in the first quarter of 2022,” reports Business Insider (citing a report from the Wall Street Journal citing the Association for Advancing Automation). “People want to remove labor,” Ametek Inc. CEO David A. Zapico told Bloomberg in November, noting that the automatic Read more…
“There’s no guarantee that robot umpires will make their way to the majors,” writes the San Francisco Chronicle. “But the system is as close as it has been now, one level below.” Here’s how it looks for a minor league/Triple-A team, the Albuquerque Isotopes: Using the same computerized optical tracking Read more…
Trying to envision “the ‘human-machine era’, a time when the tech has moved out of our hands and into our ears, eyes, and brains.” Real-time captioning of conversation. Highly accurate instant translation. Auto voice mimicry making it sound like you speaking the translation. Real-time AR facial augmentation making it also Read more…
Northwestern University engineers have developed the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot — and it comes in the form of a tiny, adorable peekytoe crab. Just a half-millimeter wide, the tiny crabs can bend, twist, crawl, walk, turn and even jump. The researchers also developed millimeter-sized robots resembling inchworms, crickets and beetles. Read more…
Atari pulled the plug on the release of Marble Madness II almost exactly 31 years ago after the follow up to their hit game failed to perform well in location tests. For decades the only way to play this now sought after rarity has been on one of a handful Read more…
A team of scientists created a novel type of temporary pacemaker — one that dissolves on its own, without requiring any removal. In their latest research, they’ve paired the pacemaker with a series of wireless sensors on the skin, which should allow it to smartly monitor a patient’s vital signs Read more…
In an interview with the FT, Epic chief executive Tim Sweeney spoke about the metaverse and expressed his concerns that tech giants Apple and Google could “unfairly” extend their “stranglehold” on smartphone platforms to “dominate all physical commerce taking place in virtual and augmented reality.” An excerpt from the report: Read more…