Carnegie Mellon University

[VIDEO] Electric Field Tomography: Spray-On Tech Turns Jell-O into a Touch Control

David Szondy reports: If you’ve ever sat down to a dish of Jell-O and wished that it was a touchscreen control , Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has got your back. A team of scientists at the CMU’s Future Interfaces Group is working on [...]

Jobs That Humans Will Never Do Again, As Long As We Have Robots

Bryan Lufkin writes: Robots are entering the workforce. Some will work alongside you. Others, sadly, will put you out of work. The question is, which jobs are actually on the chopping block? The answer to that has been bathed in media hype, but [...]

Industrial Robotics: Why China May Have the Most Factory Robots in the World by 2017

A perfect storm of economic forces is fueling the trend Timothy Aeppel reports: Having devoured many of the world’s factory jobs, China is now handing them over to robots. China is already the world’s largest market for industrial [...]

‘Quantified Self’ Technology: Humans are Gradually Becoming Cyborgs—and That’s a Good Thing

SA Forum is an invited essay from experts on topical issues in science and technology. This column was produced in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. Justine Cassell is director of the Human–Computer [...]

PIXY! Teaching Micro-controllers Boards to See: Scientists Predict Major Implications for the Cat-Pestering Industries

Now in the closing few days of its Kickstarter campaign the Pixy camera board from Carnegie Mellon is an interesting departure from cameras intended to be connected to micro-controllers like the Arduino. It isn’t just another camera, it’s a [...]