Month: July 2017

In this new age of more sophisticated AI and machine learning algorithms, more autonomous robots are being worked on everyday.  But in the past 50 years, most robotic implementations only took on performing a specific set of tasks.  Most if not all industrial robots over that time exclusively performed repetitive tasks, so those that had camera sensors only required 2-D perception. But a new breed of collaborate robot will have more complicated responsibilities, like being able to pickup-and-place a variety of different sized and shaped objects.  Many robots will need to be able to map free space in 3-D...

It is a not so classic battle of good versus bad, being fought by Verily Life Sciences LLC (formerly Google Life Sciences). Verily, in a blog post announced, with the help of partners that they have just released a million bacteria-infected male mosquitoes they raised, in Fresno, California.  “Run that by me again” you say?  These male mosquitoes do not bite and have a naturally-occurring bacteria called Wolbachia, that ensures these released males are sterile, but will still mate with female skeeters creating non-viable eggs.  This approach called the sterile insect technique (SIT), is a targeted strategy to limit populations and thereby...