Top news of the week: 06.01.2021.
Robotics
Call for Papers
We invite submissions for the 10th annual robotics law and policy conference—We Robot 2021—to be held at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, USA, on September 23-25, 2021. ...
Silicon Valley Robotics Awards SICK Champion Award and Innovation Award as Part of Good Robot Industry Awards Program
<p>The Silicon Valley Robotics (SVR) group awarded SICK two honors as a part of the SVR’s inaugural Good Robot Industry Awards.</p>
The Year Of The SPAC And What It Means For Hardware
The Year Of The SPAC And What It Means For Hardware
The Year with No Handshake
A good, firm handshake with a direct look in the eye. It's a great way to engage with another person, build trust, and express sincerity.
Timnit Gebru’s Exit From Google Exposes a Crisis in AI
The situation has made clear that the field needs to change. Here’s where to start, according to a current and a former Googler.
The Fallacy of Fencelessness and Why Cage Free is Best
Flexibility in manufacturing provides quantifiable value creation and cost savings, and a great way to introduce flexibility in factories is to allow humans and robots to work together in ...
I Play Games, Also Tell You About Jobs I've Slack Off At: Super Radical Solitaire
Super Radical Solitaire Far too many years ago I spent a summer working on a farm picking fruit, mostly pears. We were paid by the crate w...
The Internet Archive now has better scans of Computerworld magazine
The Internet Archive announced that it has made ComputerWorld’s print issues from 1967-2014 available online in better quality than ever.