Jan 14, 2021 | Batteries, Featured, Robots
Computers, sensors and robots as small as a grain of salt are being developed that can move around, detect light, sound, pressure, chemicals and magnetic fields. Less than a millimetre across and a few hundred micrometres thick, they process information and...
Jan 14, 2021 | Oceanography, Robots
Seven little bluebots gently swim around a darkened tank in a Harvard University lab, spying on one another with great big eyes made of cameras. They’re on the lookout for the two glowing blue LEDs fixed to the backs and bellies of their comrades, allowing the...
Jan 7, 2021 | Featured, Robots, Space
A major challenge when it comes to using robots to explore other planets is keeping them operating when there’s no way to repair them from Earth. Researchers at the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania have conducted what they call very preliminary work on...
Jan 7, 2021 | Agriculture, Robots
Aquaculture is the world’s fastest-growing animal-protein production sector, and the use of robots in many industries is growing quickly, as well. At North Carolina State University, researchers are finding ways to build on these trends to increase marine...
Dec 17, 2020 | Healthcare, Robots
One of the biggest challenges and heartbreaks of the coronavirus pandemic comes when a COVID infected person is, by necessity, cut off from their family. Hospitals and long-term care facilities are restricting or in some cases prohibiting visitors in efforts to reduce...
Dec 17, 2020 | Healthcare, Robots, Work
For decades, the attitude of unions and their advocates to increased automation could be summed up in one word: no. They feared that every time a machine was slipped into the workflow, a laborer lost a job. The Covid-19 pandemic has forced a small but significant...
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