[ad_1] When campers sign up for a week, they get a UKIT robotics building kit to keep that includes servos, connectors, a main control box, and 300-500+ pieces. They’ll also receive 10-plus hours of live virtual instruction from experienced educators. Campers can choose from basics in robotics, coding, and engineering to more advanced camps in […]
Category: Robots
NASA crowdsourcing helps build a better Moon digging robot
[ad_1] NASA’s Artemis program will eventually need robots to help live off the lunar soil, and it’s enlisting help from the public to make those robots viable. The space agency has picked winners from a design challenge that tasked people with improving the bucket drums RASSOR (Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot) will use to […]
Soft robots can now run like cheetahs and swim like marlins
[ad_1] The LEAP spine (Leveraging Elastic instabilities for Amplified Performance), developed by Dr. Jie Yin, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University, draws heavily on the cheetah’s natural flexibility. Normally, soft robots locomote across solid surfaces while keeping all four feet firmly on the ground. Unfortunately this severely limits their […]
Save $300 on the Roomba i7+ vacuum robot at Best Buy
[ad_1] Buy iRobot Roomba i7+ at iRobot – $700 The i7+ is iRobot’s top-of-the-line vacuum robot. In addition to including the company’s Imprint Smart Mapping technology, which allows the robot to classify and remember all the rooms in your home, the i7+ comes with a charging station that automatically empties its dust container into a […]
Muscle sensors may let you control a drone by clenching your fist
[ad_1] CSAIL’s tech isn’t ready for real-world use. A Parrot Bebop 2 drone responded to 82 percent of over 1,500 gestures — promising, but not what you’d depend on in a vital situation. The scientists intend to refine the technology, though, including the option of custom or more continuous gestures. They’ll ideally learn from the […]
Scientists can 3D print insect-like robots in minutes
[ad_1] It might soon be relatively trivial to make soft robots — at least, if you have a 3D printer handy. UC San Diego researchers have devised a way to 3D-print insect-like flexible robots cheaply, quickly and without using exotic equipment. The trick was to print “flexoskeletons,” or rigid materials 3D-printed on to flexible and […]
AI transforms ‘The Great British Bakeoff’ into a horror show
[ad_1] Rather, they’re a mashup of bodies, bread and faces twisted grotesquely together and set in a nightmare tent. How did a system so great at generating realistic fake faces go so spectacularly wrong in this scenario? According to Shane’s article, it’s a vivid (and hilarious) demonstration of what you can and can’t do with […]
Tesla’s Autopilot could soon detect traffic lights
[ad_1] Autopilot stopping for red lights! ???????? ? ? let’s goooooooo pic.twitter.com/C95etry3t5 — Third Row Tesla Podcast (@thirdrowtesla) March 26, 2020 Tesla’s Autopilot can already recognize other cars on the road, and last fall, an update allowed it to spot traffic cones. If you use Navigate on Autopilot, your EV will also plan lane changes […]
The Morning After: Reviewing the iPad Pro (2020)
[ad_1] Virtual escape.The Engadget Podcast: How games (and Animal Crossing!) are keeping us sane This week on the show, Devindra and Cherlynn dive into the deserted island life of Animal Crossing and how games can help us all survive being stuck at home. Also, Senior Editor Jessica Conditt describes how Doom Eternal — a literal […]
Engineers test a powered ‘ankle exoskeleton’ to make running easier
[ad_1] Here’s how the exoskeleton works: Its motors tug a cable running through the back of the rig from the heel to the calf. That pulls the foot upward during the toe-off, extending the ankle at the end of every step. Team member and Stanford grad student Delaney Miller said: “Powered assistance took off a […]