by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via IEEE Spectrum: Robots are fairly decent at using prefabricated materials to build things, but when you get out into an unstructured environment (whether it’s somewhere like a forest or a city after a major disaster), it doesn’t really make sense to bring...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Watch Science of Superheroes on PBS. See more from PBS NewsHour.
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider: Wendy’s came in first — by far — at 129.75 seconds. It’s the only chain that managed to improve its time from 2011. Here’s the breakdown of the six “mainstays” plus one regional chain, Bojangles, from QSR Magazine:...
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Business Insider, researchers model some robots after animals to function in specific environments and situations (lots of interesting photos in the linked article). Robots Inspired By Animals – Business Insider
by Leroy Hurt | Oct 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
Via Instapundit: It was also suggested that there was an ongoing process of polarization in the labor market, with the share of job opportunities in middle-skill occupations continuing to decline while the shares of low and high skill occupations increased....
