Nature powers up with a mechanical fish that runs off a circulating liquid power source:
… Read the rest “Robot fish has battery blood.”The roughly 40-centimetre soft robot doesn’t have solid batteries — instead it is propelled by a
It’s hot here. Spent all day at a swim meet. Non-competitors not allowed in pool. There’s a chain now that makes ice cream using frozen nitrogen. Science art… Read the rest “Science Art: Nitrogen with Secret Binary Robot (Brain Freeze Ice Cream Wallpaper Detail), editor’s own work.”
Science Daily reveals a breakthrough in wearable electronics, with flexible circuits that can move like muscle fibers and even help do your walking:
… Read the rest “Gel robotics for wearable muscles.”A collaborative research team has
Fast Company unveils the new robots unleashed by Colin Angle, the man behind the Roomba, after he was challenged by a dive instructor in Bermuda. The marine machines are designed to seek … Read the rest “Roomba inventor creates an anti-invasive-fish robot.”
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 hip-helping soft, tethered… Read the rest “Soft exosuit boosts runners’ performance”
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 highway:
… Read the rest “10-4, bot buddy. Robot truckers join the convoy….”Uber, the technology company (which,
Science Daily reports on the cybernetic insects that can be used alongside drones to quickly map out unfamiliar terrain:
… Read the rest “Insect biobots are ready to respond to disasters.”“The idea would be to release a swarm of sensor-equipped
The Verge reports on Uber’s first real-live self-driving truck shipment, hauling Budweiser from Loveland, Colorado, to Colorado Springs:
… Read the rest “A robot truck just drove beer between cities.”The truck — a Volvo big rig equipped with
SONG: “Cells, Sensors, Silicon”.
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SOURCE: “This Swimming Stingray Robot Is Powered by Real, Living Rat Cells,” Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2016,… Read the rest “SONG: Cells, Sensors, Silicon”
Popular Mechanics describes the rat-cell engine that powers this stingray robot:
… Read the rest “Living robot: mechanical stingray swims with rat-cell muscles.”“Roughly speaking, we made this thing with a pinch of rat cardiac cells, a pinch of breast implant,
Washington Post reports on a swallowable, unfolding robot for retrieving the little batteries that little kids swallow:
… Read the rest “You swallow this pork origami robot, see… no, really.”Across the United States, a child swallows a battery once every
A bit fancier than the Hall of the Presidents. New Scientist reports on a wheeled robot that uses fans to drive up walls:
… Read the rest “Disney builds a wall-driving robot.”The eminently mobile critter was developed by Paul Beardsley from
SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential cover) (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: This is a cover making up for… Read the rest “SONG: “Particles of Attraction” (penitential AJ Allulli cover)”
Laboratory Equipment sings the praises of the latest soldiers keeping our harbors safe from attack – a
secret army of (cheap) robot bowling balls:
… Read the rest “Little swimming bowling balls, ever-faithful guardians….”Originally designed to look for
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 beast:
… Read the rest “Robot cheetah runs free!”The team recently took the robot for a test run on MIT’s
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