“The robot, which is a stack of three components allowing the display to swivel freely in any direction, is intended to be a family companion performing a variety of interactive tasks,” writes John Markoff for The New York Times about Jibo, a robot created by MIT Media Lab Professor, Cynthia Breazeal.
Yasmeen Taleb reports for The Boston Globe on a crowd-funding effort by students from MIT and other institutions intending to send a time capsule to Mars by 2017. The project, which would use satellites to deliver photos, clips, and messages to the red planet, marks the first student-led interplanetary mission.
New Scientist reporter Hal Hodson writes about a new algorithm called StreetScore that creates a perceived safety map of a city based off of crowdsourced data. “The idea is not to create no-go areas, but to locate areas of inequality,” Hodson explains.