Chronicling Robots Since 2011
Tragedy is unfortunately the biggest boon for robotics. As the world mourns the Turkish miners that perished below the earth, the one hope on the horizon is the US is now actively looking to employ an army of rescue robots to avoid a similar crisis in the United States. Earlier this week, the US … Read more
Red Fish, Blue Fish, One Fish, Robot Fish that is how Dr. Seuss is read at MIT. Unlike land-based robots, MIT’s flexible aquatic craniate is a “soft robot” that is “powered by fluid flowing through flexible channels” mimicking gills. This self contained power system, requires no recharging or even traditional batteries, so it potentially could swim … Read more
Its great to watch tough 300lb. linebackers wear pink gloves, socks and sneakers. Unfortunately, wearing the colors does not cure the disease that affected 232,340 women and 2,240 men this year alone who were diagnosed. Our robotic friends working on the International Space Station are working on both “life-saving surgical techniques” and new “cancer-fighting” techniques … Read more
Earlier today I was speaking with a mother outside my child’s school about her elderly parents. This woman began to tell me that her father is in a substandard home, because it was the closest within walking distance to her mother (who can’t drive). I immediately thought about Sergey Brin’s claim that a driverless car … Read more