Soft exosuit boosts runners’ performance
Science Daily gets muscle augmentation away from the whole “real-life Iron Man” thing with news of what looks like a pair of robotic shorts… a […]
robotics
10-4, bot buddy. Robot truckers join the convoy….
Popular Science brings a 1970s science-fiction dream one step closer to reality with news that Uber Freight is ready to put robot truckers on the […]
Insect biobots are ready to respond to disasters.
Science Daily reports on the cybernetic insects that can be used alongside drones to quickly map out unfamiliar terrain: “The idea would be to release […]
A robot truck just drove beer between cities.
The Verge reports on Uber’s first real-live self-driving truck shipment, hauling Budweiser from Loveland, Colorado, to Colorado Springs: The truck — a Volvo big rig […]
SONG: Cells, Sensors, Silicon
SONG: “Cells, Sensors, Silicon”. [Download] ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: “This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells,” Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2016, as […]
Living robot: mechanical stingray swims with rat-cell muscles.
Popular Mechanics describes the rat-cell engine that powers this stingray robot: “Roughly speaking, we made this thing with a pinch of rat cardiac cells, a […]
You swallow this pork origami robot, see… no, really.
Washington Post reports on a swallowable, unfolding robot for retrieving the little batteries that little kids swallow: Across the United States, a child swallows a […]
Disney builds a wall-driving robot.
A bit fancier than the Hall of the Presidents. New Scientist reports on a wheeled robot that uses fans to drive up walls: The eminently […]
SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential AJ Allulli cover)
SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential cover) [Download] (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: This is a cover making up for a […]
Little swimming bowling balls, ever-faithful guardians….
Laboratory Equipment sings the praises of the latest soldiers keeping our harbors safe from attack – a secret army of (cheap) robot bowling balls: Originally […]
Robot cheetah runs free!
Science Daily blows the whistle on the MIT robotics engineers who let the robot cheetah off its tether to run and jump like a wild […]
Driverless cars: an economic problem.
Another one for the unintended consequences file? From Slashdot (not normally a research reporting resource, but bear with us) we hear a note of concern […]
A robot that can catch.
Robots are still, on the whole, kind of slow responders. The big breakthrough a couple of years ago with Big Dog was that it could […]
Three-armed cyborg drummer. Yeah. A drummer with a third robot arm.
Georgia Tech researchers are trying to become prosthetic Neal Pearts, Science Daily reports, with an improvising robotic drumming limb: The robotic drumming prosthesis has motors […]
Robot swarms that build. By themselves…
Nature digs up the info on the termite robots built this castle: The robots all work independently. Each travels along a grid and can move, […]