Ditching the Inspiron family name, Dell’s budget gaming laptops get a line of their own, some redesigns and Intel Core eighth-generation options.
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None of it is binding, but it shows that Nashville is committed to bolstering its transit options.
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TechCrunch is partnering with UC Berkeley on May 11 to produce TC Sessions: Robotics, a one-day show focused on emerging robotic technologies and the startup scene.
The editorial team had a blast planning this agenda as, between the Bay Area’s universities and startup ecosystem, there are far more robotics-driven technology projects and startups on the West Coast than most appreciate. There is no question that the huge steps forward in AI, sensors and GPUs are quickly shifting robotics to the fast lane of the startups ecosystem.
Tickets are currently available and at an early-bird rate – buy your tickets here before prices increase.
Agenda
Friday, May 11, 2018 @ Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall
9:00 AM – 9:05 AM
Opening Remarks with Matthew Panzarino (TechCrunch)
9:05 AM – 9:25 AM
Building on 35 years of research, Professor Goldberg will discuss the “New Wave” in robot grasping for e-commerce warehouse order fulfillment.
9:25 AM – 9:50 AM
Brian Gerkey (Open Robotics) and Morgan Quigley (Open Robotics). Melonee Wise (Fetch Robotics)
The open ROS has been a boon to robot creators. Can ROS keep up with the dazzling array of new demands?
9:50 AM – 10:10 AM
Deepu Talla (NVIDIA)
NVIDIA is the market-leader in the development of the processors and sensors crucial to autonomous cars and drones as well as human safety.
10:10 AM – 10:30 AM
Marc Raibert (Boston Dynamics)
Boston Dynamics rocked the world with the DARPA-funded Big Dog, and founder Marc Raibert will show off its latest creation, SpotMini.
10:30 AM – 10:50 AM
Coffee Break
10:50 AM – 11:20 AM
Dan Steere (Abundant Robotics), Brandon Alexander (Iron Ox), Sebastian Boyer (Farmwise), and Willy Pell (Blue River Technology)
The future of agribusiness is robots, and these founders are already putting automated farm workers in the fields.
11:20 AM – 11:40 AM
Pieter Abbeel (UC Berkeley, Embodied Intelligence)
The latest developments in AI can extend what robots do and make it possible for anyone to teach a robot new skills, without costly re-reprogramming. Professor Abbeel’s Embodied Intelligence is taking that technology to market.
11:40 AM – 12:05 PM
Ayanna Howard (Georgia Tech), Leila Takayama (UC Santa Cruz) and Patrick Sobalvarro (Veo Robotics)
Robots and humans are working and living together more than ever, and that means we have to watch out for one another — literally.
12:05 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch and Workshops
A primer on how to work with DARPA and DARPA’s latest robotics challenge.
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM
To be announced.
1:20 PM – 1:50 PM
Renata Quintini (Lux Capital), Chrissy Meyer (Root Ventures) and Rob Coneybeer (Shasta Ventures), Chris Evdemon (Sinovation Ventures)
Has robotics become a mainstream investment focus for venture capitalists?
1:50 PM – 2:10 PM
Andy Rubin (Playground Global)
The creator of the Android mobile operating system and former head of Google’s robotics division, Andy Rubin wants Playground Global to invest in all things robotics.
2:10 PM – 2:35 PM
Manish Kothari (SRI), Kaijen Hsiao (Mayfield Robotics) and Paul Birkmeyer (Dash Robotics, Dishcraft Robotics)
Researchers in AI and robotics are well positioned to launch startups, but what does that transition look like?
2:35 PM – 2:45 PM
Demo to be announced.
2:45 PM – 3:05 PM
Coffee Break
3:05 PM – 3:30 PM
Raquel Urtasun (Uber), Alex Rodrigues (Embark Trucks)
How and when will autonomous vehicles (safely) take to the roads in meaningful numbers?
3:30 PM – 3:50 PM
When it comes to mobility, the animal world is full of elegance and adaptation as well as lessons for robotics. Professor Full has built those bio-inspired robots.
3:50 PM – 4:10 PM
Many of the first generation self-driving cars will carry systems from Aurora, and Chris Urmson, former head of Google’s self-driving car project, knows the technical challenges and promise.
4:10 PM – 4:40 PM
Session to be announced.
4:40 PM – 5:00 PM
Wearable robotics have already provided mobility to the paralyzed; they will do much more in the near future. Professor Kazerooni is one of the field’s pioneers as well as leading entrepreneurs.
5:00 PM -7:00 PM
Reception
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Researchers have been super-gluing little barcodes to bumblebees in order to track their movements in unprecedented detail.
Source: Wired
Quality is one sign of a video hoax, but physics gives you indisputable evidence.
Source: Wired
Scott Tuason documents the extraordinary creatures he sees while blackwater diving.
Source: Wired
We’ve found awesome deals on some rockin’ speakers.
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Dell’s latest XPS 15 adds some serious performance, with Intel’s latest and greatest eighth-generation CPUs and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1050 Ti on tap to go with massive battery life and a svelte design.
The post Dell calls revamped XPS 15 the ‘smallest performance 15.6-inch laptop’ appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
Dell rebranded its Inspiron gaming laptops as the G Series. The company has introduced four models across the new Dell G7, G5, and G3 brands packing the latest eighth-generation Intel processors and discrete GeForce graphics.
The post Dell rebrands Inspiron gaming laptops to G Series, serves up four new models appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
InVision, the NY-based design platform focused on collaboration, has today announced the acquisition of Wake.
Wake is a design tool focused squarely on supporting design visibility throughout a particular organization. Wake allows companies to share design assets and view work in progress as designers build out their screens, logos, or other designs. Design team leaders, or other higher-ups at the company, can upvote certain design projects or give feedback on specific tweaks.
InVision CEO Clark Valberg said that one of the most attractive features of Wake is that sharing on the Wake platform was implicit, rather than on InVision where designers have to take an extra step to upload their prototypes on InVision.
Wake will continue to operate independently within InVision, and Valberg has plans to integrate some of the Wake tools into the InVision core product. Moreover, as part of the deal, Wake will be introducing a free tier.
“We’re in the midst of a shift,” said CEO Clark Valberg. “The screen is the most important place in the world. Every company is now a digital product company. The world of design is growing and the Wake product represents a very interesting philosophical vector of that market.”
The entire Wake team will join InVision. Wake was founded in 2013 by Chris Kalani and Johan Bakken, with a customer list that includes Capital One, Spotify, Palantir, Stripe, and Airbnb. In fact, InVision’s Valberg said that Wake’s customer overlap with InVision was one of the first things that alerted InVision to Wake.
Wake has raised a total of $3.8 million, with investments from FirstMark Capital and Design Fund.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Source: TechCrunch