The story of LEGO has a charming beginning. The small Danish toymaker created simple building blocks that could fit together to make almost anything imaginable. Then the company realized their toys tapped into the human desire to create. They weren’t [See the full post…]

For decades “Made in China” has generally meant, to the Western world at least, mass produced cheap goods. But the strategic plan “Made in China 2025” established by Premier Li Qekiang aims to move the country into making high value, [See the full post…]

Open Source Voices: In this episode, Joe Speed, Field CTO of IoT Solutions and Technology at ADLINK, and Greg Burns, Chief IoT Software Technologist at Intel, explore the exciting world of edge computing—specifically, robotics. The robotics industry is predicted to [See the full post…]

Eric Leuthardt, MD, is quite the Renaissance Man. An accomplished neurosurgeon, inventor, playwright, book author, clothing designer and father of two, Eric has built a career with and around brains in a way no one would have imagined early in [See the full post…]

The Intel Science and Technology Center for Embedded Computing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will conduct research in four basic areas: Collaborative Perception which is essentially computer vision, Real-time Knowledge Discovery which includes machine learning, Robotics, and Embedded [See the full post…]

Researchers are developing technologies that will eventually allow users to control devices like computers, televisions and cell phones with their thoughts. Scientists have created Brain Computer Interface, also known as “BCI,” technology that allows computer programs to interpret human intentions [See the full post…]

We have Isaac Asimov to thank for thinking about robots as a science when he coined the term “robotics” in the 1940s. Originally, the term came from the word “robota” from Czech (possessing a similar meaning in other Slavic tongues) [See the full post…]

Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing (OTL) is one of the country’s most active offices in the field of technology transfer from university to industry. Their staff, most of whom are professionals engaged directly in licensing, manages over 2,500 active [See the full post…]