Boston becomes the second largest city in the US to ban facial recognition software, citing concerns that the technology is ‘racially discriminatory’ and threatens basic rights The Boston City Council voted unanimously to ban facial recognition software City officials will be barred from using facial recognition and they will be blocked working with third parties … Read more
Footage has emerged of one of Boston Dynamics’ robotic dogs patrolling a SpaceX test site in the US. The video allegedly shows SpaceX using the $75,000 (£60,000) robotic dog to inspect the aftermath of its test site in Boca Chica, Texas. SpaceX had just been conducting a cryogenic pressure test on the Starship SN7 dome … Read more
Boston Dynamics first showed off SpotMini, the most advanced robot dog ever created, in a video posted in November 2017. The firm, best known for Atlas, its 5 foot 9 (1.7 metre) humanoid robot, has revealed a new ‘lightweight’ version of its robot Spot Mini. The robotic canine was shown trotting around a yard, with … Read more
Boston Dynamics first showed off SpotMini, the most advanced robot dog ever created, in a video posted in November 2017. The firm, best known for Atlas, its 5 foot 9 (1.7 metre) humanoid robot, has revealed a new ‘lightweight’ version of its robot Spot Mini. The robotic canine was shown trotting around a yard, with … Read more
Paw patrol! Footage shows Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot herding sheep on a farm in New Zealand Spot gathered together the unruly farm animals with the help of two sheepdogs Robot can reach speeds of up to 3mph and costs less than £30,000 to lease Video also shows the robot marching through an orchard and … Read more
Boston Dynamics’ Spot the robotic ‘dog’ deployed in Singapore parks to tell people to keep a safe distance – as its cameras record how many people are in public spaces Boston Dynamics’s four-legged ‘Spot’ robot is patrolling parks in Singapore The bot plays recorded messages and estimating the number of people It is in a testing … Read more
Boston Children’s Hospital is suing a Saudi Arabian prince for $3.5 million in medical bills for a child whose care he offered to pay for. Prince Abdelilah bin Abdelaziz bin Abdulrahman Al Faisal Al Saud is being sued for allegedly dodging charges related to a two-year-old Saudi girl. The little girl suffers from type 1 spinal … Read more
Battle of the birds! Study finds New York and Boston pigeons do not mix because ample green space between the cities keeps them from migrating The rivalry between New York and Boston has been found in the cities’ pigeons Experts discovered genetic differences in the birds along the east coast There is interbreeding of pigeons … Read more
Robot maker Boston Dynamics is lending the service of its robotic dog Spot during the coronavirus pandemic. The four-legged machine is helping healthcare workers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard University treat coronavirus patients remotely to limit the risk of contracting the virus themselves. A custom mount and attachment for a notepad has been … Read more
One hundred forty six homeless persons at a Boston shelter tested positive for the coronavirus without showing any symptoms, concerning experts that the pandemic may be more wide spread than originally thought. The Pine Street Inn was following up a small cluster of cases last week and tested 397 people to discover that 146 were … Read more