Building Drones to Deliver Medicine and Food to War-Torn Syria
Fixed-wing UAVs aren’t just for bombs anymore — meet the nonprofit building drones to fly supplies to Syria
Robotics
FIRST Robotics Season: Part 4 Breakdown Of The Game
In this game, an ideal alliance would consist of robots that each specialize in different tasks working together
Resistance is Futile: Harvard’s Kilobot Swarm Keeps Fellow Robots in Line
If you’ve ever made your own Bristlebot, you can appreciate how pared down and elegant is the category of artificial life know as vibrating robots, or vibrobots. Well, it turns out that when it comes to vibrobots, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In 2011, researchers at Harvard came out with […]
Cooler Robot Delivers Cold Beverages On-Demand
A robotic cooler that uses an Arduino for brains and serves drinks from an RC wheelchair platform.
A $100 Origami Robot That Folds Itself Up and Walks Away
I have a thing for low-tech robots, especially when they’re made from everyday stuff. The body of this new little robot bug from MIT and Harvard, described last week in the latest issue of Science, is made from a five-layer sandwich of copper traces, paper, and shape-memory polymer — the stuff you know as Shrinky […]
Better Tea Brewing with DIY Robotics
I’m surprised that I haven’t already seen a tea-brewing robot in an issue of Skymall, because I think it’s just the sort of luxury item that would really appeal to someone on their second or third bloody mary. Luckily, you can just go ahead a make yourself one in less than 10 minutes with this […]
Art and science come together to reinvent the wheel – robot wheel
The Japanese art of paper folding is a difficult one to master, involving taking a 2D sheet of paper and transforming it into 3D shapes. For most of us, three folds are the maximum number we normally handle ─ usually only done when we have to send a letter in the mail. Roboticists from Seoul […]
