Root is still in the development phase. Root uses various lights and sensors to engage kids in the world of coding. (via Harvard) Our kids are going to be smaaaaaart! In our rapid growing digital age, it's never been more important to ...
A student guides the drone with just her mind. Drones in this race were controlled by using BCI software (via University of Florida) These days drones are as common as Windows updates. Whether big businesses use them to deliver your unnecessary ...
Can you beat Puma's trainer bot? BeatBot is meant to push runners further and can keep up with Usain Bolt's record. (via Puma) Usain Bolt is better known as the fastest person ever timed. He's the first man to have world records in b...
BB-8 at JPL. (via NASA/JPL) May the 4th be with you... People all over the world fell in love with mini droid BB-8 when the Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released. The little guy stole our hearts so much people flocked to stores to have their...
I am loving all the artificial intelligence news of late. Self-driving cars, A.I. beating humans at games, and now this… Forget embedding deep learning Artificial Intelligence in your hardware. The Movidius Fathom Neural Compute Stick is a...
I have one. But before the review, I thought I would go over some of the buzz circling the device. It’s spawned startup companies, contests, and other innovations. Virtual Reality (VR) development is increasing at Mach speed, and HTC isn’t any ...
Doom, episode 1 level 1... Visual Doom AI’s CIG competition pits bots only that play against each other using nothing but visual references rather than internal data. (image via id Software, via Visdoom) Academic groups and institutions have bee...
Ricky Ma’s $50,000 Mark 1 has a 3D printed skeleton wrapped in a silicone skin and can respond to verbal interaction. (All images and video via Ricky Ma) For anyone who’s ever dreamt of dating a movie star but never had the chance, that dream m...
Tokyo researchers created an LED e-skin that can display and assess user vitals in real-time. If further refined, the skins could replace fitness trackers and hospital sensors. Forget getting mobile updates on your watch. What if you could get ...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s take of a spin liquid on a honeycomb lattice with neutrons in ‘splash mode’ in order to see the Majorana fermion. (via Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Magnetic states are no longer considered a ‘couple’ as researc...
EMILY, the robotic buoy saving lives. While some inventions can be a boondoogle, the latest robotic buoy, called EMILY, is making a positive splash. The remote controlled Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard may be the latest addition to beaches a...
A team of researchers recently created a device that creates murals based on small reference images. The technology could improve digital fabrication methodology, and replace the jobs of mural artists in the future. (via ETH Zurich, Dartmouth) S...
SCHAFT's new walking robot doesn't have a name yet. The new walking robot can also climb up stairs and carry up to 132 pounds (via SCHAFT) When Google's parent company was, Alphabet, was announced last year no one was sure what their output was ...
New self-driving car created from littleBits STEAM kit. LittleBits kit includes a range of sensors, motors, and guides for students and teachers to easily learn computing and hardware. Their latest kit allows students grade 3-8 to create a self-drivi...
Could A.I. robots take over the writing industry? In terrifying news, it seems that A.I. writing technology may replace the writers of tomorrow. Researchers from Future University created the A.I. and helped to get it accepted into a national literar...
The green LED lights help the sea turtles avoid the fishing nets. University of Exeter have created a new net using LED lights to prevent sea turtles from being trapped. (via University of Exeter) We know it's important to take care of the e...
Six MicroTug robots from Stanford’s Biomimetics & Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory are able to pull a 2-ton vehicle but not very quickly. Moving a two-ton vehicle can be a tough job for the average human to pull or even push for that...
A crop dusting drone. (via agweb.com) Notorious for its strict regulation around unmanned aerial vehicles, Japan is now opening up remote regions to special drone use zones. The areas of interest - efficacy of drones in monitoring crops, wildli...
Tattered flag in Fukushima, Japan. The tsunami that hit japan in 2011 caused serious damage to the country, including the destruction of a nuclear power plant. Radiation leakage continues to be a problem that even robots cannot combat. How, then, can...
New robot concierge named “Connie” currently at the Hilton McLean, VA. IBM's Watson AI is powering a Nao robot named 'Connie' at the Hilton McLean in Virginia. Connie acts as a concierge in a new pilot which could usher in a new team of h...
Immersit puts you in the middle of the action from the comfort of your couch (via Immersit) There's nothing like sitting on the couch to enjoy an action packed movie or fast paced video game. But wouldn't it be cool to immerse yourself i...
Amputees often report maintaining feeling in their missing, or phantom, limbs. Thanks to a new study conducted by the Swiss EPFL, amputees may regain their sense of touch with a newly developed bionic finger, which one study participant claimed felt ...
This robotic arm turns drummer into a cyborg music machine. University of Georgia Tech creates a robotic arm that plays along with user's movements. (via University of Georgia Tech) Some drummers are so fast, precise, and amazing they must b...
Lady Gaga wowed the crowds at the Grammys with tribute performance to David Bowie. The performance featured a dancing keyboard, made possible by NASA Robotics experts Andy Robot and Brian Lim. As a NASA Robotics expert, you might not expect to ...
