Boston Dynamics recently made the Spot robot’s SDK available to the public. (Image Credit: Boston Dynamics) Robot and programmer enthusiasts who aspire to develop on advanced robotic systems will be given the chance to work on Boston Dynamics’ f...
The new cooling technique could be useful for soft robots in the future, especially when there are no other methods to keep the system cool. (Image Credit: Cornell University/Facebook Reality Labs/AAAS) Humans often perspire to keep their temper...
The flash graphene technique can transform carbon-containing material into bulk graphene, which can then be used as a material for many purposes. (Image Credit: Jeff Fitlow, Rice University) Graphene has a lot of potential to be an important mat...
The Xenobots were designed by the University of Vermont’s Deep Green supercomputer using an evolutionary algorithm, while scientists at Tufts University took the designs to create a programmable living organism. (Image credit: University of Vermont) ...
CES 2020 had many robotic announcements. Finally putting robots to work and assisting people is apparently in the forefront of development. Take a look at the following and see for yourself. Personally, I would like a robot to just follow me around c...
Virtual Visor gives the driver a “mask” for their eyes whenever sunlight or glare hits their eyes. (Image Credit: Bosch) I always found CES to be inspiring. This is one of those technologies... Sunlight may obstruct a driver’s vision during...
ClearSpace’s spacecraft will de-orbit an old rocket in 2025 in an attempt to clear up space debris. (Image Credit: ClearSpace SA) Space junk is constantly orbiting the Earth at thousands of miles per hour. Companies, such as ClearSpace, are star...
Scientists at Tampere University in Finland have trained a strip of plastic to move on its own by responding to light. This is the first time that thermoplastic, a synthetic actuator, has learned how to walk without computer programming. The team pub...
The DEAnsect is a robust robot that can be twisted, squeezed and bent while retaining functionality. (Image Credit: EPFL) It’s fairly easy for nature to serve as a source of inspiration when it comes to robotic development, but it’s nearly impos...
Piaggio Fast Forward, a Boston-based company that developed the Vespa, has launched a small, cargo-space robot, called Gita, which follows its owner around on the go and can carry up to 40 pounds of their belongings. The company aims to allow people ...
The ClearSpace-1 mission will target a piece of debris in orbit around the Earth. (Image Credit: ClearSpace SA) A quick search here at element14, and you'll find a collection of potential space debris collection strategies. Hopefully, this one wi...
Researchers at MIT have built a fabrication system and a design space that can be used to create fluidic chambers and channels at millimeter-scale size for actuating thin film shape-changing materials with a high-resolution design. The project, milli...
Soon enough, farmers won’t have to worry about spraying their fields with chemicals to keep them weed-free. Small Robot Company (SRC) and RootWave, two agritech start-ups based in the UK, have joined forces to build a high-precision robot that will e...
NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft crossed into interstellar medium on November 5, 2018. (Image Credit: NASA) Last year, on November 5, 2018, Voyager 2 crossed the heliopause, becoming the 2nd man-made spacecraft to leave the heliosphere, the protectiv...
I'm always amazing at swarm robotics and motion control. Spectators who attended the 2019 Nanchang Flight Convention in China were treated to a one-of-a-kind spectacle of 800 choreographed drones that took the shape of a passenger jet, a propeller pl...
Alphabet X’s moonshot division, formerly Google X, has announced a new project, called Everyday Robot, which teaches robots how to perform everyday tasks. The robots can use cameras and advanced machine learning algorithms to see and learn from their...
The magnetic skin can be used in laboratory settings, effectively preventing contamination of equipment. (Image Credit: KAUST) Researchers from Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) have developed a “magnetic ...
It’s common to use printers to print out documents, but what if we could use printers to print out flexible devices, such as temporary tattoo paper, textiles, and thermoplastic? Engineers from Saarland University based in Saarbrucken, Germany, have p...
Fleets of smart robots could work on the lunar surface. (Image Credit: OffWorld) OffWorld, a California-based start-up company, has some big plans to build a fleet of smart robots that could mine distant asteroids, moons, and planets in the sola...
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched into space, carrying 60 Starlink satellites into orbit on November 11th. (Image Credit: SpaceX) It must be a busy place just outside the Earth's atmosphere. It's about to get a little more crowded too. Sp...
UF’s GatorEye drones outfitted with a new sensor suite were used to find the 900 to 1200 AD settlement that was a significant producer of beads made from seashells. (Image credit: University of Florida) A team of researchers from the University...
The SmartEdge IIOT GatewaySmartEdge IIOT Gateway is a Raspberry Pi 3 Compute based industrial Linux box.It runs Raspbian with some additions.There's a set of industrial hardware extensions. In this blog I review the isolated CAN port. Hard...
The SmartEdge IIOT GatewaySmartEdge IIOT Gateway is a Raspberry Pi 3 Compute based industrial Linux box.
It runs Raspbian with some additions.
There's a set of industrial hardware extensions. In this blog I review the isolated industrial I/O.
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The tiny car was created using a plastic food container, an aluminum floor, a battery-powered mobile 4-wheeled platform, and three copper wires that act as a steering wheel. (Image credit: University of Richmond) Researchers from the University...
The robot gripper can grip a cable and slide it through from one end to the other. (Image Credit: MIT, CSAIL) Up until now, you wouldn’t normally see robots gripping a USB cable and following it through from one end to the other like humans do w...
