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Back to the Future: Van Robotics Embraces a Retro Feel for Its Robot Tutors
When designing a robot buddy for students, you’d think the more realistic looking the robot, the more appealing, right? Not so, says academic-turned-entrepreneur Laura Boccanfuso.
Read MoreHow Zocdoc is Using AI to Schedule Your Next Doctor’s Appointment
When Zocdoc’s patients told the startup that insurance was confusing, the company decided to build an insurance-checker product.
Read MoreBrent Bushnell of Two Bit Circus Believes Web 3.0 Is Almost Here
The anti-social downsides of social technologies are starting to be a big concern for tech companies these days. It’s a surprise, since Web 2.0 was all about building out the social capacity of existing tech offerings. But Brent Bushnell of Two Bit Circus isn’t worried. In fact, he believes he’s well positioned for the next big thing: bringing people back together again in public.
Read MorePoker Champ and Primed Mind Founder Fedor Holz Is Bringing Elite Mindset Coaching to the Masses
Ambition has never been an issue for Fedor Holz. When he was barely out of his teens, he beat out 183 other pros to scoop up nearly five million dollars at the 2016 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Now he’s the founder of Primed Mind, a tech offering that takes the experience of having a personal mindset coach and translates that into a series of two-part audio sessions.
Read MoreFrom FIFA 17 to Real-life soccer Fields: JOHAN Sports is Taming Big Data
Together with its in-house sports scientists, JOHAN Sports has developed analytics modules to interpret the data it receives from its sensor with GNSS and deliver information on the physical state of sports players and their progress, as well as risk profiles for injury prevention.
Read MoreWhat Is Deep Learning? A Primer with Bonsai’s Mark Hammond
Today, there are a lot of people talking about AI without having a real grasp on how deep learning works or even what it means. So what is it, really?
Read MoreReddit CEO Steve Huffman on Healing, Diversity, and the Site’s Evolution
Steve Huffman knows a thing or two about rebuilding. In 2015, the co-founder of reddit returned to the online community as its CEO 10 years after co-founding the site with his college roommate Alexis Ohanian—and following a series of interim leaders and unsavory episodes involving hate speech.
Read More3DR’s Chris Anderson Says the Future of Driverless Cars is DIY
Chris Anderson has always loved using the latest technology on the relative cheap. Applying technology from what he calls the “peace dividend from the smartphone wars,” Anderson started building his own drones and in 2007, launched DIY Drones, a central resource for makers and amateur enthusiasts. He’s since gone on to launch DIY Robocars, a similar resource for robocar builders and racers.
Read MoreStartups on Air Hits HIMSS 2018
Over 40,000 attendees from every corner of healthcare descended upon Las Vegas last week for the annual HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) Conference. Global Startup Evangelist Mackenzie Kosut took advantage of this massive event to talk to nine healthcare startups, weaving his way through the expo halls to chat with CEOs, CTOs, and heads of engineering for his Startups on Air video series.
Read MoreTell a Robot to Take a Hike, and It Might Listen: “Cassie” Takes on the Pacific Crest Trail
For most adventurers, hiking the Pacific Crest Trail would be a crowning achievement in its own right. But one Caltech professor is upping the ante: he wants to design a robot that can complete the famous trek, all with outside assistance. That’s why Dr. Aaron Ames and his team have created Cassie, the world’s first fully autonomous robot designed to navigate the harshest and most complex environments in the world.
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