Jul 7, 2022 | Featured, Robots, Space
With its adorable stereo-camera eyes, the Lightweight Rover Unit 1 (LRU1) robot, posing on the black gravel of Italy’s Mount Etna, resembles PIXAR’s famous animated character WALL-E. LRU1 is one of a team of eye-catching robots designed by Germany’s...
Jul 7, 2022 | Healthcare, Robots
Pepper the robot is programmed with hundreds of jokes, and if you don’t believe it, just ask her. The residents of the Estates nursing home in Roseville sure did as the robot made its national debut as a personal care assistant. “Do you want to hear more...
Jun 30, 2022 | 3D Printing, Robots, Space
NANA has unveiled a plan to unleash swarms of cellphone-sized robots to hunt for alien life on other planets. The US space agency developed the Sensing With Independent Micro-Swimmers (SWIM) concept for exploration of inhospitable planets and celestial bodies, such as...
Jun 23, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Infrastructure, Machine Learning, Robots
Collapsing bridges, crumbling aqueducts, and corroding highways: Infrastructure is big (and increasingly urgent) news in the U.S. A new class of robots and inspection drones from a variety of vendors are beginning to scale structures and perform acrobatic...
Jun 15, 2022 | Featured, Robots
Allow me to take you on a trip down my memory lane. As a young lad, a film I saw captured my imagination: Fantastic Voyage, a 1966 release about people shrunk to microscopic size and sent into the body of an injured scientist to repair his brain. The idea struck...
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