Synthetic skin for a more sensitive robot.
New Scientist explores the gentler side of our eventual mechanical overlords, as engineers create a sensor-studded skin for a gentle, sensitive robot: Most robots are […]
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SONG: Back to the Printer
SONG:“Back to the Printer” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “MIT and Harvard’s 3D-Printed Inchworm Robot Can Assemble Itself,” […]
Self-assembling robot worms.
Inhabitat heralds the end of human dominance on Earth with news of a 3D-printed worm that can build itself out of its own parts: Researchers […]
Forget chess-playing computers. Here’s a baseball robot.
Wired (via CNN) is sizing up the new guy on the mound – a mechanical brain designed to outsmart pitchers: Researchers at the University of […]
Science Art: Resuscitation by mouth-to-mouth respiration, WHO/Red Cross photo
Click to embiggen slightly The robot is in trouble! We’ll have to help the robot breathe! This educational illustration comes from the National Institutes of […]
Flying robot maps Surprise Valley
Yep. Scientific American has more on the unmanned aircraft that NASA and the USGS is using to explore the alien landscape of northeastern California: Yesterday […]
Robot buddies.
Science Mag produces proof – actual, empirical proof – that nice guys really can finish first and that even killer robots can learn to care […]
If you love a sewage-eating robot, set it free.
So New Scientist recommends in a new report on an artificial gut that allows robots to become self-sustaining: [F]ood-munching robots have been demonstrated in the […]
SONG: My Girlfriend’s a Robot (penitential cover)
SONG: “My Girlfriend’s a Robot” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. Originally done like this. SOURCE: This is a penitential cover with […]
Beijing 2008: Robot drones and Segway police.
Guests at the Summer Olympics might get an idea of what “technological superiority” means nowadays, according to AP’s report on China’s new security measures. The […]