Synthetic muscle that lifts 1,000 TIMES its own weight

"Synthetic muscle that lifts 1,000 TIMES its own weight could lead to super-strong humanoid robots"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4898544/Silicon-3D-printed-muscle-lead-lifelike-robots.html

Amazon Robotics Challenge (ARC) and RoboCup 2017

https://www.robocup2017.org/eng/index.html

https://www.amazonrobotics.com/#/roboticschallenge

TurtleBot3

• http://www.turtlebot.com/
• http://turtlebot3.robotis.com/en/latest/
• https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT
• https://github.com/ROBOTIS-GIT/turtlebot3
• http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/review-robotis-turtlebot-3
• http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/celebrating-9-years-of-ros

This week, IEEE will be posting additional news items from the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in Singapore

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/all-the-latest-most-exciting-robotics-research-from-icra-2017

2D/3D CAD Programs

An amazing commercial 2D/3D CAD tool, Solidworks
http://www.solidworks.com/sw/products/3d-cad/solidworks-standard.htm

http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/List_of_CAD_Programs

http://www.freecadweb.org/

• http://www.freecadweb.org/wiki/?title=Screenshots

• https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD

KiCad PCB Design Tool - Open Source

I just happened to come across this free Open Source software today, and imagine it may be of interest to others...
http://kicad-pcb.org/


10 Part Tutorial On Designing/Building A PCB (Using FOSS)
https://contextualelectronics.com/gtb-kicad-4-0/

KiCad examples
https://github.com/guanix/boards

Raspberry Pi 3 with WiFi and Bluetooth

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/91-hardware/9485-raspberry-pi-3-with-wifi-and-bluetooth.html

OpenAI: Elon Musk and Others Found a $1 Billion AI Initiative

http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/news/a18527/elon-musk-wants-to-make-the-world-safer-with-ai/

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-openai/
"OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company."

• "OpenAI's research director is Ilya Sutskever, one of the world experts in machine learning. Our CTO is Greg Brockman, formerly the CTO of Stripe. The group's other founding members are world-class research engineers and scientists: Trevor Blackwell, Vicki Cheung, Andrej Karpathy, Durk Kingma, John Schulman, Pamela Vagata, and Wojciech Zaremba. Pieter Abbeel, Yoshua Bengio, Alan Kay, Sergey Levine, and Vishal Sikka are advisors to the group. OpenAI's co-chairs are Sam Altman and Elon Musk."
• "Sam, Greg, Elon, Reid Hoffman, Jessica Livingston, Peter Thiel, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Infosys, and YC Research are donating to support OpenAI. In total, these funders have committed $1 billion, although we expect to only spend a tiny fraction of this in the next few years."

@open_ai