Engineers from the University of Colorado Boulder, Keio University, and the University of Tokyo have developed LiftTiles, a modular shape display that fits inside a room. LiftTiles can inflate and rise up as a unit through an inflatable actuato...
Contestants submit their droid drawings, sketches, or paintings for a chance to have them physically created and included in an upcoming Star Wars project. (Image credit: Star Wars: Force for Change) Star Wars fans who have ever thought about d...
A user interacts with the robot arm, Mantis, which has haptic force feedback and can be used to enhance a gamer’s virtual reality experience. (Image Credit: University of Bristol) Researchers from the University of Bristol have developed Mantis...
The 3D printing robotic platform is known as Stargate and is used to manufacture Relativity’s Aeon 1 rocket engine and Terran 1 launch vehicle. (Image credit: Relativity Space via Wikipedia) Aerospace startup Relativity Space aims to launch the...
OpenAI’s Dactyl system uses OpenAI Five neural networks to train a Shadow dexterous hand how to solve a Rubik’s Cube. (Image credit: OpenAI) More than a year ago, San Francisco-based AI research lab OpenAI managed to train a robotic hand to man...
Astronauts Jessica Meir and Christina Koch will repair the damage done to the International Space Station’s power system. (Image credit: NASA) WATCH LIVEwww.youtube.com/watch NASA has recently announced the first-ever all-female spacewalk, ...
NASA’s Shapeshifter, a developing concept for transformational vehicles that can be used to explore far-away worlds, enables mini-robots to roll, fly, float, swim and finally, morph into a single machine. Engineers are testing out their concept with ...
The WIMAGINE BCI implants translate electrical impulses in the brain associated with movement and transfer them into actions performed by an exoskeleton. (Image credit: Clinatec via Lancet YouTube video) Several years ago, French optician Thiba...
On Saturday, September 28th, Elon Musk took the spotlight in Boca Chica, Texas, at SpaceX’s facility to reveal the company’s latest Starship prototype. SpaceX recently added a new section to its website solely dedicated to Starship, which also contai...
Researchers at Imperial College London’s Aerial Robotics Lab have developed a robotic system known as AquaMAV that’s capable of launching itself from the water and into the air. The robot, weighing just 160 grams soars 26 meters through the air after...
The Spot base platform features stereo cameras for obstacle avoidance, has a runtime of 90-minutes, and comes with customizable options. (Image credit: Boston Dynamics via YouTube) Boston Dynamics has recently announced they are selling their ...
Jeff Bezos and his plans to combat climate changeAmazon CEO Jeff Bazos speaks at a press conference to unveil the companies plans to fight climate change. (Image Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) On September 19th, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unv...
University of Illinois (UI) researchers have developed minuscule soft robot machines, dubbed “the swimmer,” that are made of artificial and biological components that swim around when exposed to light. It’s a promising development as it brings ...
The new plastic is 14 times stronger and eight times lighter than steel. This lightweight material was inspired by the mother of pearl. (Photo from University of Buffalo) A return to indestructible plastic phones and devices? Yes, please. ...
Motoyasu Tanaka and his University of Electrocommunications research team based in Tokyo, Japan have developed a snake-like articulated robot that can move through narrow spaces and climb obstacles for search and rescue missions on disaster sites. Th...
Japan’s unpiloted supply ship, HTV-8 (known as Kounotori8) was supposed to launch to the International Space Station on September 10th, but it was postponed due to a fire on the launch platform of the mission’s rocket. A new launch date has yet to be...
Sam Battle, a London-based musician, programmer and owner of Look Mum No Computer YouTube channel, where he showcases various complex electronic instruments, like the organ made of 44 Furby toys, dedicated a large sum of his time building an entire e...
Is this the future of extracting hydrogen? (mage credit: Getty Images) A new discovery from a team of scientists may change the way we think about hydrogen. A group of Canadian engineers claims they have developed a way to extract hydrogen from ...
Russia’s Skybot F-380 is expected to perform a series of tasks under the control of cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov. (Image credit: Roscosmos via Facebook) Russia’s humanoid sometimes gunslinger robot Skybot F-380 has finally reached the ISS after...
You wouldn’t normally expect to see a robot controlling a marionette in today’s technological world, especially because there’s little to no demand for these robots, and it would be very complex to develop such a system. However, that didn’t prevent ...
Google’s subsidiary YouTube took down numerous videos of robot battles, like BattleBots, citing the content was in violation of the site’s terms of services, stating the videos showed acts of animal cruelty. One of the videos that got removed f...
Researchers from the University of Bristol and the University of the West of England (UWE) have developed a new generation of swarming robots called “Teraflop Swarm” that can adapt to new environments and independently learn new behaviors through a p...
Most soft robots rely on an external power source and control in order to operate. This causes them to remain tethered to off-board systems or become equipped with hard components. Researchers from Harvard John A Paulson School of Engineering and App...
The NNSA ‘El Capitan’ supercomputer is expected to have a peak performance of more than 1.5 exaflops in computing power. (Image credit: Energy.Gov) The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) - the federal agency ...
Norway’s first all-electric battery-powered plane crashed into a lake on Wednesday. The crash poses a step back in Norway’s attempt to reduce fossil fuel-powered flights. Known as the Alpha Electra G2, the plane is owned by Norway’s airport operator,...
