Now anyone can inch up close to machine learning. It’s teachable in the form of an AI experiment “made with some friends from Google.” You, yes you, can teach a machine (forget coding) using…
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MIT’s new flow battery breathes air to cut costs of renewable energy storage
Wind and solar power are increasingly popular sources for renewable energy. But intermittency issues keep them from connecting widely to the U.S. grid: They require energy-storage systems that, at the cheapest, run…
UBC researchers develop earthquake-resistant concrete
A new seismic-resistant, fibre-reinforced concrete developed at the University of British Columbia will see its first real-life application this fall as part of the seismic retrofit of a Vancouver elementary school. The…
Oculus Announces New Standalone Headset, ‘Venues’ at Oculus Connect
Today (11th October 2017) at its fourth developer conference in San Jose, Oculus announced its newest and most affordable VR headset, called Oculus Go. The standalone device will ship in early 2018…
This soft robotic gripper can screw in your light bulbs for you
The engineering team, led by Michael T. Tolley, a roboticist at the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, presented the gripper at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems…