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Episode 205 – Fashionable AR

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Michael and Michael start off this episode with a ready to weAR t-shirt from Curiscope, that displays the wearer’s heart rate in addition to a representation of heart & other organs in the torso.  This leads to a conversation on what more could be done in a hospital setting, to allow for a visualization for the medical professionals seeing & absorbing data about their patients in a new way.  Continuing the fashion theme, the team turns to the reward structure that Tommy Hilfiger is building into the Xplore line, with embedded IoT chipset & companion app to reward influencers for … Continue reading →

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Episode 204 – Hot to Trot Bots

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Michael and Michael make a rare recording appearance at their favorite coffee shop, Bean Traders, in Durham, NC, to talk about coffee, robot dogs, and much more.   This week’s episode is fueled by discussions on artificial intelligence, machine learning, power storage & delivery, as well as the future use cases for bots both big & small.  Kicking things off with Dominic Tan’s Domo Arigato poster with 262 robots, Michael & Michael then move on to the physical robots, starting with a robotic arm with a dodecahedron grasping mechanism, designed to capture delicate undersea creatures, like jellyfish.  Continuing on with … Continue reading →

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Episode 203 – Robotic Monks

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After a quick vacation week Michael R. brings a meditative view back to the show with a Robotic Monk designed to welcome young visitors to temples in China. He then takes us deep on synthetics and their new religious beliefs as shown on the TV Show Humans. We then look at new robots from MIT that can walk, run, and climb stairs that are littered with debris – all with out any visual inputs. And we wrap the show with a bit of a discussion around the addictive behavior of games. Show Links Robotic Monk – https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/02/a-buddhist-temple-in-beijing-built-a-robotic-monk-to-spread-the-word/ Fisher Price Little … Continue reading →

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Episode 202 – Everything Old Is New Again

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Michael M starts off this episode with true blast from the past, even if it was in the wrong order from the plan — how modern micro-X-ray techniques are able to bring back images from daguerrotypes that were once thought ruined.  The images of photos taken long ago are now visible again, with amazing detail. The team then turns to an MIT Technology Review article on AI, which focuses on the challenge that games present, and what can be learned from how artificial intelligence teams play those games.  The game in this case is Dota 2 — Defense of the … Continue reading →

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