Robot scans rare library books at 2.5k pages per hour(popsci.com)

12 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 4 comments

'Pokémon Go' players unknowingly trained delivery robots with 30B images(popsci.com)

127 points by wslh 7 months ago | 69 comments

Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums(popsci.com)

377 points by Brajeshwar 8 months ago | 203 comments

Popular Science article about a man who accidentally gained control of about 7,000 DJI Romo robot vacuums while trying to steer his own with a gaming controller.

Stone tool analysis in Southeast Asia provides evidence of seafaring technology(popularmechanics.com)

22 points by bookofjoe 1 year ago | 9 comments

Workers rely on medieval era tech to reconstruct the Notre Dame(popsci.com)

100 points by berkeleyjunk 3 years ago | 88 comments

The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians(newsletter.pessimistsarchive.org)

76 points by list 12 days ago | 47 comments

Pessimists Archive newsletter post on the 1976 computer-assisted proof of the Four Color Theorem and the debate it sparked among mathematicians.