Signe Brewster
MIT Tech Review
San Francisco, CA, United States
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This Robot Knows When It’s Confused and Asks for Help
Misunderstandings will be an unavoidable part of communication between robots and humans. One robot is learning to cope with them. → Read More
Inside the Glowing-Plant Startup That Just Gave up Its Quest
Taxa Biotechnologies caused huge controversy by raising money on Kickstarter for a glowing plant. Yesterday, the startup announced that the dream is dead. This is the story of what went wrong. → Read More
Meet Kuri, Another Friendly Robot for Your Home
Mayfield Robotics set out to build an approachable robot on wheels for surveillance and entertainment. Will anyone buy it? → Read More
Meet Kuri, Another Friendly Robot for Your Home
Mayfield Robotics set out to build an approachable robot on wheels for surveillance and entertainment. Will anyone buy it? → Read More
Meet Kuri, Another Friendly Robot for Your Home
Mayfield Robotics set out to build an approachable robot on wheels for surveillance and entertainment. Will anyone buy it? → Read More
Behind the Numbers of Virtual Reality’s Sluggish Debut
After years of hype, high-end VR headsets finally launched in 2016. Here’s why you probably don’t have one yet. → Read More
Virtual Reality Needs to Be Social to Succeed
New experiences are best when shared, and developers are figuring out how to push users to connect. → Read More
Pairing Devices Is About to Get a Lot Easier
Imagine using your phone as a paddle to play air hockey on a giant touch-screen tablet, without having to formally pair the devices. → Read More
Two Weeks with Oculus Touch and I’m Hooked
Virtual reality gets much more immersive as soon as you strap on these new hand-tracking controllers. → Read More
This virtual reality game is a surprise favorite because you
If you get only one virtual reality headset in your household this holiday, here’s the game that will include everyone in the room. → Read More
All you need to power this smart watch is your body heat
The Matrix PowerWatch is a FitBit competitor that exploits the temperature difference between your skin and the air for power. → Read More
Researchers trained a neural network to recognize what’s making plants sick
A neural network trained on pictures of sick plants is now openly available to all. → Read More
A $799 Device That Brings Your Phone to Your Windshield
With Navdy’s heads-up display, drivers can get directions without taking their eyes off the road. → Read More
Building a Library for VR, One Image at a Time
The Internet is slowly becoming available in virtual reality with a new library of photorealistic scans. → Read More
R.I.P., Google Cardboard
Google’s new Pixel Phone and Daydream View headset go hand in hand for an accessible VR experience. → Read More
This Calorie-Counting App Thought My Pasta Was Granola
Lose It says its app can now recognize many foods from a photo but it sure couldn’t guess mine. → Read More
A Robot That Sews Could Take the Sweat Out of Sweatshops
A big part of the garment-making process is still done by hand. Now some clothing makers hope to end that. → Read More
Go for a Ride in Uber’s Autonomous Car
During a launch event and demo in the streets of Pittsburgh, Signe Brewster accompanied two Uber engineers in a high-level demo of their autonomous Ford.. → Read More
Ride along with us in Uber’s self-driving car
Uber is now dispatching self-driving cars to a select group of users in Pittsburgh, and invited us along for the ride. I hailed a car from Uber’s Advanced.. → Read More
Uber starts self-driving car pickups in Pittsburgh
Beginning today, a select group of Pittsburgh Uber users will get a surprise the next time they request a pickup: the option to ride in a self driving car. The announcement comes 1.5 years after Uber hired dozens of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s robotics center to develop the technology. → Read More