While humanoid robots made of plastic and metal dominate the news and capture the public’s interest, companies and universities are already researching the next generation of robots: after rigid robots come soft robots. The most prominent representative of soft robots … Continue reading Electrofluidic Fiber Muscles for Soft Robots and Wearable Exoskeletons
If you’ve ever thought about Harry Potter and wished for a sorting hat that could read the thoughts and feelings of new students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, your wish has now come true. Palo Alto-based startup Sabi … Continue reading The Beanie That Reads Minds
You can’t be creative and innovative if you’re only stuck in your area of interest. You have to seek out the unknown, engage in hobbies and interests outside of what you do every day and thus move out of your … Continue reading How the Unfamiliar Promotes Innovation – Trade Fairs on Topics I Know Nothing About
Quote of the moment: “Using Google instead of generative AI is like bringing a typewriter to a meeting.” Continue reading Google, AI and the Typewriter
Since their inception, coffee houses have fulfilled more than just the task of serving coffee and food. They were the seeds of ideas and revolutions, because one service that coffee houses also offered and some still offer today is collections … Continue reading When Starbucks Cafés Enable Start-ups
After less than 2 weeks I canceled my Humane AI Pin. It is an electronic device that is worn like a brooch and is connected to an AI. A bit like in Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise, where the logo on … Continue reading Humane AI Pin: Too early and too late at the same time OR Why I immediately scrapped it again
The automotive industry is the most important economic sector in countries such as Germany and Austria. These countries became prosperous thanks to the internal combustion engine, which was mounted on a carriage and developed to perfection as an automobile. However, … Continue reading Fax Machine Sales VS Combustion Engine Ban
The story behind one of the most influential AI publications of recent years is one of the lead stories in the current issue of Wired magazine. In 2017, eight AI researchers published a paper on Google entitled Attention Is All … Continue reading Attention, Love And Diversity Is All We Need For AI
As modern men, we always talk loudly about equality and demand action, but we easily overlook the fact that we should start with ourselves. Ashamedly, I had to realize this when the book The Authority Gap by Mary Ann Sieghart … Continue reading My Year of Reading Non-Fiction by Female Authors
In the latest podcast of the German agency for leap innovations SPRIN-D, the German quantum physicist Wolfgang Schleich told an anecdote on the occasion of a reception in Stockholm at the Nobel Prize ceremony. Sitting at the table next to … Continue reading Garage Start-up Versus Garage Use Ordinance