The robot detects groups of people who break social-distancing rules and navigates to them. From there, it encourages them to stand two meters apart from each other. (Image Credit: Sathyamoorthy et al., 2021, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0)
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The robot detects groups of people who break social-distancing rules and navigates to them. From there, it encourages them to stand two meters apart from each other. (Image Credit: Sathyamoorthy et al., 2021, PLOS ONE,...
With bird-like qualities, the robotic claw can easily perch on tree branches. (Image Credit: Stanford University)
Biomimicry strikes again. Stanford University engineers developed a peregrine falcon-inspired robotic claw that attaches to a quadcopte...
The image shows a Pac-Man-shaped organism beside its replication (green). (Image Credit: Douglas Blackiston and Sam Kriegman)
Back in January of 2020, Xenobots made quite a splash. Now they surprise again.
In 2020, scientists developed the world&rsq...
Space junk is expected to get a lot worse in Earth orbit, raising concerns that it could impact satellites or other spacecraft. (Image Credit: ESA)
IDK why space debris makes me so upset. I’ve written about it and what’s being done about...
Teladoc could help save hundreds of premature babies’ lives. (Image Credit: Omar Lopez / Unsplash)
Remote doctors could help save premature babies’ lives through robotic technology that was trialed during the pandemic. So far, Telemedici...
The Ability Hand, as shown above, features touch feedback for users wearing the device. It achieves through pressure sensors that vibrate on the user’s skin. (Image Credit: Psyonic)
Psyonic, a startup specializing in developing advanced, affor...
AVNET's iotconnect.io cloud platform is an online service that you can use to send data to, and then show it on a dashboard. In this blog series I'm learning how to talk to it with Node-RED.In this post: create and use a Gateway Device.Authentication...
SpinLaunch’s new system focuses on a carbon-free emissions launch to hurl payloads into orbit. (Image Credit: SpinLaunch) So crazy, it just might work. For over fifty years, rockets have launched humans and vehicles into orbit, but what if ...
The latest Raspberry OS at the time of writing this post is Debian 11 "bullseye".I'm checking how the Infineon TPM IC behaves under that version.In this 2nd part, I handle the TSS (Trusted Software Stack) software libraries a...
Boston Dynamics’ robots have recently learned to move like Jagger! The promotional video demonstrates the robots’ agility and precision improvements. (Image Credit: Boston Dynamics) Boston Dynamics is at it again! This time, the company, p...
This image shows two calcium carbonate concrete samples. The left sample uses hardened cement paste, while the right sample uses silica sand. (Image Credit: Maruyama et al.) Researchers at the University of Tokyo produced a new concrete called c...
AVNET's iotconnect.io cloud platform is an online service that you can use to send data to, and then show it on a dashboard. In this blog series I'm learning the Python SDK and integrating BLE devices.In this post, two topics: how is the imag...
AVNET's iotconnect.io cloud platform is an online service that you can use to send data to, and then show it on a dashboard. In this blog series I'm learning the Python SDK and integrating BLE devices.In this post: create a Gateway template, register...
Blue Origins expects the Orbital Reef space station to be operational by the second half of this decade. (Image Credit: Blue Origins) Recently, Blue Origin announced that it plans to build an enormous private space station called Orbital Reef. I...
Earlier, The Ocean Cleanup deployed Jenny in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch to determine if it could collect plastic without breaking. (Image Credit: The Ocean Cleanup) How heartwarming... Nearly a decade ago, Boyan Slat announced ambition...
Illustration showing the DART spacecraft and Italian agency's satellite just before impact. (Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben) In Avengers 2: Age of Ultron, Iron Man proposed a way to keep the planet safe from outside...
A-HOGE, a music robot developed by @goto_statement, performs melodies on a set of calculators. (Image Credit: @goto_statement) This fun project had me thinking I should have explored the idea of music creation with my "Scary Tapping" p...
AVNET's iotconnect.io cloud platform is an online service that you can use to send data to, and then show it on a dashboard. In this blog series I'm learning the Python SDK and integrating BLE devices.In this post: the SDK is revamped and now shows h...
On September 27th, NASA’s Landsat 9 spacecraft launched to continue monitoring the Earth’s features. (Image Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) NASA successfully launched its latest Earth-orbiting satellite into space! On September 27th, a Un...
The team trained their RL models in the NVIDIA Isaac Gym and transferred the learning to a robotics lab in Europe. (Image Credit: University of Toronto) Researchers at the University of Toronto, NVIDIA, and other organizations unveiled a system ...
Wabtec and Carnegie Mellon University developed the FLXdrive, which could reduce carbon emissions in the US. This could lead to battery-powered electric locomotives replacing freight trains running on fuel. (Image Credit: Wabtec) On September 10...
Shrapnel from destroyed satellites could damage other satellites or cause disruptions throughout the world. (Image credit: Flickr) Space is a mess. One bolt speeding around in orbit could rip right through a spacecraft! International spac...
