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Russian robot escapes from lab, disrupts traffic, causes chaos in the streets

A robot called Promobot this week escaped and caused havoc with local traffic as a result.
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Project Soli isn’t in wearables yet, but these guys used it to create invisible violin

The talented folks at Design I/O have created the world's smallest violin using Google Soli and some smart machine learning.
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Trust us, this video of 15 different sorting algorithms is way more entertaining than it sounds

PhD student Timo Bingmann has created an amazing video showing sorting algorithms in action. And it's surprisingly awesome!
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The International Space Station’s new low-gravity 3D printer just printed its first tool

Astronauts on the ISS are putting their first zero-gravity capable 3D printer to good use.
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Snap a photo of your meal and this AI-powered startup will tell you how many calories it contains

It’s the dream of any foodie who watches what they eat to be able to snap a photo of their meals and have their phone instantly tell them how many calories they’re about to consume. That’s the mission statement of a new startup called AVA, which promises to do away with the dreary manual logging process of rival healthy-eating apps in favor of an altogether more streamlined process. Using AVA’s “intelligent eating” service, users will simply take a photo of their food, text it to AVA, and then receive health and caloric information in return.
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LIquidPiston’s tiny but powerful rotary engine could usher in a new era for drones

LiquidPiston's X Mini engine hopes to pick up where the rotary engine left off.
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France is building the world’s biggest automated meteor-spotting network

FRIPON is a massive camera network across France, designed to track down meteorites
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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch didn’t go quite the way it was planned

SpaceX launched its latest Falcon 9 rocket today. It wound up more sore than soaring.
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Astronomers want to deploy 5,000 tiny robots to help build a 3D map of the universe

Berkeley Lab has come up with a way to use robots to create a 3D map of the universe.
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Meet Scubo: the ridiculously agile robotic sub that’s helping scientists explore the ocean

Scubo is an Arduino-powered robot sub mounted with six webcams, eight thrusters, and far, far more.
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Watch astronaut Tim Peake explain why somersaults in the ISS don't make you dizzy

Tim Peake teaches us why somersaults on the International Space Station won't leave you dizzy.
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MIT scientists built a neural network that can pass the ‘Audio Turing Test’

A group of researchers have created an algorithm for predicting the sound an object makes.
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A helicopter-mounted lidar system let archaeologists map an ancient Cambodian city

Archaeologists have mapped a hidden city in Cambodia using a cutting-edge laser system
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NASA is teaming up with United Arab Emirates to gather data for a manned mission to Mars

NASA has announced a new agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) concerning research for a trip to Mars.
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Teach your kids how to code with Root: a playful, programmable drawing robot

The idea behind Root is simple: the easiest way to get kids to understand something as abstract as coding is to provide a means of making it relevant in the real world