The RAVEN drone features bird-inspired legs to help improve walking, jumping, take-off, and landing capabilities. (Image Credit: Alain Herzog)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and UC Irvine researchers built RAVEN...
Ikea Kallax is a modular storage range. Used in houses and offices. I'm going to turn their "Insert With Door" into an industrial DIN plug-in. It will be able to hold automation and compute devices in an office-like environment.
An i...
The cello-playing robot performed a piece composed by Jacob Muhlrad at the Malmö Live Concert Hall in Sweden (Image Credit: malmosymfoniorkester/Instagram)
In a world-first, two industrial robotic arms played the cello with a symphony orchestr...
Penetration from the robotic telescope. (Image Credit: TEPCO)
Telesco, a remote-controlled extendable robot, recently retrieved a small amount of melted fuel from a reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. According to the Tokyo Electri...
The HAL900 micromouse robot participated in the APEC 2024 micromouse competition. (Image Credit: Micromouse/Youtube)
Anyone else feel the need to compete in this?
For years, competitors have participated in Micromouse events to build a small, autono...
The MAiRA Pro S robot is an ensemble of three arms that conduct music. (Image Credit: David.Suenderhauf/Hellerau hall)
Dresden, Germany, deployed MAiRA Pro S, a three-arm music conducting robot that acts like a human orchestra conductor. Recently, i...
The biohybrid robot uses the mushroom’s rhythmic voltage spikes to control its locomotion. (Image credit: Cornell University)
It’s almost unbelievable.
Researchers from Cornell University have placed a mushroom behind the controls of a r...
Reflect Orbital tested its concept by fitting mylar mirrors on a hot air balloon that reflected sunlight on a moving truck. (Image Credit: Reflect Orbital)
Fly by night, conceptual, viral, whatever the case may be, this idea is inspiring. It's ...
EPFL has developed a robotic arm capable of identifying ripe fruit and can harvest them without damage. (Image credit: EPFL)
Engineers from EPFL's CREATE Lab have developed and tested a robotic arm capable of harvesting raspberries without dama...
The new material has nearly the same performance as traditional PCB material but can be completely recycled.
Researchers from the University of Washington have developed a new formulation for circuit boards that offers performance on par with tradi...
The Las Vegas Sphere is a technological feat, boasting the world's largest interior and exterior screens. (Photo by Y2kcrazyjoker4 is licensed under CC BY 4.0)
With a $2.3 billion construction cost, the Las Vegas Sphere is home to the world'...
Last month, the Japanese Digital Agency scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing floppy disk use, except for one that applies to vehicle recycling. (Image credit: Wikipedia)
It's almost the end of floppy disk use in the industrial world.
The Jap...
The ArmorKinetix Servo Drives can also lower system costs and increase productivity and uptime. (Image via Rockwell)
Rockwell Automation touts its new ArmorKinetix Distributed Servo Drives as the technology behind faster deployments and more capable...
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“Don’t fix what isn’t broken” is a big motto in the design world. I always love stories of old technology still doing its job, and well. This is one of those cases.
Last week, the world exper...
The PixONE platform packs a 6-axis IMU, gyroscope, temperature sensor and can handle payloads up to 250 kg. (All images via Bota Systems)
Bota Systems, a Zurick-based developer and manufacturer of multi-axis force-torque sensors, recently unveiled i...
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The Japanese Transport and Tourism Ministry is planning to develop a huge 310-mile automated underground conveyor belt, called the Autoflow-Road, transporting packages from Tokyo to Osaka. Japan hopes this will address...
The mini TARS replica robot was built by Charlie Diaz. (Image Credit: Charlie Diaz/hackster.io)
Charlie Diaz is no stranger when it comes to Interstellar. The film features TARS, a two-legged robot, and he felt inspired enough to build a mini versio...
Image showing a natural maple samara (left) and artificial seed (right) while descending. (Image Credit: Jianfeng Yang / Tampere University)
Researchers at Tampere University, Finland, and the University of Pittsburgh collaborated to develop a robot...
As shown in the image, the snail robots can work together or individually to move across terrain, climb, or overcome obstacles. (Image Credit: Zhao et al., Nature Communications, 2024)
Researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong developed a r...
The Mammoth carbon capture plant began operations and aims to capture 36,000 tons of carbon per year. (Image Credit: Climeworks)
Mammoth, a carbon capture plant built by Climeworks, recently started removing CO2 from the earth's atmosphere. Base...
An illustration of the Mars Sample Return mission. (Image Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech)
According to NASA, the existing Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission plans to return the Mars rock samples before 2040 need to be reconsidered. The space agency says...
The caterpillar-shaped soft robot splits and re-attaches itself. (Image Credit: Frank Wojciechowski/Princeton University)
Princeton and North Carolina State University engineers developed an origami-like soft robot capable of bending and twisting t...
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Removing snow or ice off power lines is difficult and takes time. That’s where the FlyCart 30 drone comes into play. The FlyCart 30 drone flies over power lines and with an equipped non-...
