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-...
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On the All-In Podcast, hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, a prediction suggests in seven years, middle-class American homes will own a robot costing $1,000/mont...
We could see a railway network on the lunar surface. (Image Credit: NASA)
Northrop Grumman announced it received a contract from DARPA to create a concept for a railway system across the moon. This is part of the decade-long Lunar Architecture (LunA...
Aurora will be deployed at an airport in Alaska to keep wildlife away from the runways. (Image Credit: Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities)
Boston Dynamics’ Aurora robot is lending a hand at Fairbanks International Airpo...
The tiny robot (left) mimicked an ant’s behavior, and the swarm performed four different tasks in the experimental arena (right). (Image Credit: communications engineering)
When are we getting swarmbots as toys?
Researchers recently developed ...
The robot seed planter imitates the Erodium seed’s planting process --- drilling into the earth. (Image Credit: Carnegie Mellon University)
Ecosystems are being threatened and damaged by the ongoing climate crisis. To help address this, resear...
The team created a 2D musculoskeletal model that walks at varying speeds. (Image Credit: Tohoku University)
Tohoku University's Graduate School of Engineering researchers developed a 2D musculoskeletal model driven by a reflex control...
JAXA’s SLIM spacecraft landed upside down due to an engine failure. Nut communication has recently resumed after the solar panels received sunlight. (Image Credit: JAXA)
On January 20th, Japan’s Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon (S...
The 1-guilla robotic eel’s underwater undulations could provide insight into how eels can migrate thousands of miles without eating. (Image credit: EPFL)
Researchers at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne) have developed a robotic e...
