Aug 16th 2018
Tech News Weekly 45
Bag of Words
Hosted by
Megan Morrone,
Jason Howell
Robots to Watch Over Us
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 19:00 UTC.
- 1:39 Anki, Spot Mini, Kuri and other stories from the week in robot news with Evan Ackerman from the IEEE blog Automaton.
- 15:22 Be careful downloading Fortnite on Android says Christoph Hebeisen from Lookout Security.
- 32:09 Mark Glickman from Harvard explains how they used math to find out who wrote the music for "In My Life" by the Beatles.
- 48:59 Patrick Tucker from Defense One tells us why we might need a new router.
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Links
- Boston Dynamics Is Getting Ready to Produce Lots of SpotMinis
- Boston Dynamics SpotMini
- Neato Robot Vacuum Update Shows Why Persistent Mapping Is So Useful
- Anki's Vector Is a Little AI-Powered Robot Now on Kickstarter for $200
- Haru: An Experimental Social Robot From Honda Research
- Why the Pursuit of a “Killer App” for Home Robots Is Fraught With Peril
- IMPOSTOR FORTNITE ANDROID APPS ARE ALREADY SPREADING MALWARE
- Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers
- Robots have power to significantly influence children’s opinions