The Asteroid they planned on impacting Earth. (Image credit: ESA Operations) On April 29, 2019, space experts from NASA, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) created a simulation on a potential asteroid ...
A Japanese startup company, Interstellar Technologies has successfully launched its experimental sounding rocket, "Momo" into orbit. The launch took place from a test site near Taiki on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on May 4th. This was their t...
Drone transports organ to hospital for the first time A drone can now deliver organs to transplant donors at a hospital. (Image Credit: Mark Teske/University of Maryland School of Medicine) Transporting organs to transplant patients will soon ha...
Stratolaunch's mega plane will be used to carry rockets and multiple launch vehicles. The aircraft can take flight in orbit at a high altitude in space. (Image Credit: Stratolaunch) The Stratolaunch, known as the world's largest all-composite a...
Boston Dynamics' robotic strength is admirable. In the robotic firm's latest YouTube post, "Mush, Spot Mush!" posted on April 16th, a set of ten specialized Spotmini quadrupedal robots titled Spotpower can be seen hauling off a full-sized box truck a...
Motor control is not a new topic, but like most technologies, it continues to evolve. Luckily, NXP has a broad portfolio of MCUs to support the next-generation of motor control designs. For example, many new products enabling some f...
Open Bionics began selling its 3D-printed Hero Arm one year ago in the UK and France, but now it's available in the US. The start-up, Open Bionics specializes in producing inexpensive, lightweight prosthetics and their arms are inspired by the Iron M...
The disposable drones are made from cheap plywood and have enough space to carry over 700 kg. These gliders are essentially wooden boxes with electronics inside. (Image credit: Logistic Gliders) I am hoping they release the designs for this. See...
The Lego form helps the material stick together and create a tight seal (Photo from Brown University) Researchers at Brown University recently developed a new kind of hydrogel material that can be used for various soft robotic applications. The ...
Boston Dynamics is making a return to the robot scene. This time it's with a re-designed version of "The Handle" robot from 2017. The bird-like robot's (2017 version was a humanoid) priority will be to stack boxes in a warehouse, and there's no stopp...
These fish and bees can now talk to each other thanks to these robots (Image credit: EPFL) Unless you’re watching a movie involving anthropomorphic animals, you don’t expect bees and fish to communicate with each other. But thanks to new robotic...
Tokyo's organizing committee for both the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) has announced the launch of its Tokyo 2020 Robot Project. The programmes aim is to deliver the most innovative games to date and to ensure visitors have the exper...
Stanford University is opening up a new institute to study and develop human-centered artificial intelligence technologies and applications. The university will be working with Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) in an effort to gather input...
Artists Irene Posch and Ebru Krubak have engineered The Embroidered Computer, an interactive 8-bit computer made of embroidery materials and traditional stitching techniques and patterns. The design invites artistic abilities to weave through te...
After a few years of testing, French company Stanley Robotics will push out its self-driving robot valets and put them to use at France's Lyon-Saint-Exupery airport later this week. It only costs $61 to park for a week in the cheapest parking lot (fa...
The Hayabusa2 was originally supposed to make contact back in October (Image credit: JAXA) Last month, Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 landed on asteroid Ryugu to collect samples for scientists to study back home – only the second time this has be...
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly works outside of the ISS during a spacewalk in 2015 (Photo from NASA/Getty Images) NASA is about to make history. The agency is set to hold its first ever all-female spacewalk at the end of this month. American astrona...
Researchers at The University of Cambridge have created a cost-effective testbed for cooperative driving experiments. (Photo via University of Cambridge) If anything, this would make for a fun toy. Get kids to run your research testing. Hmmmmm.....
MIT's latest robot can do backflips, walk and trot on uneven ground. It’s rivaling Boston Dynamic’s bots. The mini cheetah can even be programmed to perform certain tasks when it dealt with unexpected force or kicked to the ground. Researchers say th...
Festo's BionicSoftHand is the latest robotic hand attempting to immitate the way a human hand works. Using artificial intelligence, the hand is able to use its fingers to work out how to manipulate an object by gripping and moving it around. Th...
(Image Credit: China National Space Administration/Xinhua News Agency/AP) It didn’t last long. Bitter cold and a long night ended the plant’s growth. Day and night cycles on the moon are around two weeks long each. The plant sprouted and grew fo...
Agility Robotics has unveiled a new robotic model called "Digit." The company's robot is the first one to have four-degree-of-freedom arms that can be used for balance, pushing doors and lifting up boxes that weigh 40 pounds. The design is also sleek...
Hololens and Kinect from Microsoft , I always thought, had a huge potential for development. Before I even get my hands on either, they’ve been updated! Microsoft's unveiling of the HoloLens2 headset promises to be the next big release and the e...
www.youtube.com/watch A harpoon meant to collect space debris has been tested in space for the first time as part of the space debris removal mission called RemoveDEBRIS. The titanium harpoon developed by Airbus engineers in the U.K. hit the satelli...
Opportunity was designed to run for 90 days, and travel up to 1,100 yards before ending its exploration mission. Instead, the robot endured for nearly 15 years and traveled more than 28-miles before reaching its resting spot on Perseverance Valley. (...
