These Artificial Muscles are Made of Gold-Plated Onion Skin
When freeze-dried and plated in gold, onions become a promising material for use in robotics.
When freeze-dried and plated in gold, onions become a promising material for use in robotics.
Machines’ bulky, blocky bodies seriously limit their range of motion. But what if the soft androids of the future could move like humans?
There was no one near him, ref!
Robots vs robots. Transformer vs Transformer. Terminator vs Terminator. Robot fights are awesome spectacles.
The special file has been around for 20 years and is still still as useful as ever – BuzzFeed knows this well.
Fetch and Freight are like the C-3PO and R2-D2 of the factory world.
With a little bit of help from this movement-matching robot, and a VR headset, you can explore the world without ever leaving your sofa. Read More >>
Ever since cars first hit the road drivers have been terrible at parking, so it makes sense that we’re finally leveraging all the advancements we’ve made in robotics to do that for us – like this set of automatic car-ferrying decks. Read more >
The little machines are designed with feet that use the same gripping properties as gecko lizards.
With Nepal devastated by a massive earthquake this past weekend, we explore the tech innovations that make up the modern disaster relief effort.
Researchers have just hijacked a teleoperated surgical robot, demonstrating major security weaknesses in the machines that may eventually replace a surgeon’s hands.
The android’s name is Aiko Chihira, and her job as receptionist is to greet shoppers as they enter the shop, give them directions, and make conversation with pre-programmed scripts.
Bloody autonomous immigrants assembling themselves over here and taking our jobs.
It promises to make having blood drawn or getting injections far more comfortable, but I'm still not putting my arm anywhere near this blood-thirsty needle robot. Read More >>
Motherboard’s latest documentary is an important reminder that today’s nerdy research will create the weapons of tomorrow.
Deep within the abandoned shell of the Fukushima nuclear power plant, it's too dangerous for humans to investigate—so it's being inspected by robots instead.
