telerobotics

Building a Better You: Makers Hack the Human Body

Building a Better You: Makers Hack the Human Body

By Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook

Stett Holbrook is editor of the Bohemian, an alternative weekly in Santa Rosa, California. He is a former senior editor at Maker Media.

He is also the co-creator of Food Forward, a documentary TV series for PBS about the innovators and pioneers changing our food system.

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Aided by affordable materials, 3D printers, and open source technology, the merging of human and machine is a thriving subset of the maker community. Next week’s World Maker Faire New York will showcase a number of these projects and the makers who made them. These projects are also a testament to the best impulses of human nature: once we possess new skills and technology we look for ways to use them as a force for good and to share them with others.

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Running a Rover by Remote: NASA Tests Telerobotics

Running a Rover by Remote: NASA Tests Telerobotics

By Ken Denmead

Ken Denmead

Ken is the Grand Nagus of GeekDad.com. He's a husband and father from the SF Bay Area, and has written three books filled with projects for geeky parents and kids to share.

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On a dusty lot at Moffett Field, CA that’s been made to simulate a lunar landscape, NASA showed off what they hope will be the next step in our exploration of the solar system: telerobotics. That’s a fancy name for remote control, but it’s a lot fancier than most remote control vehicles.

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