Built by researchers at Harvard and the University of Colorado, the Harvard Ambulatory MicroRobot (HAMR) is just 2.25 centimeters long. It “comes up to about knee-high on a cockroach,” writes Evan Ackerman in IEEE Spectrum, and can run like hell. Four piezoelectric-driven legs carry it around at 30 centimeters per second even carrying its own [read more]
Université de Sherbrooke engineers demonstrated a wearable robotic third arm that weighs about the same as a human arm. According to Evan Ackerman writing in IEEE Spectrum, waist-worn hydraulic limb “is gentle enough to pick fruit but powerful enough to punch through a wall.” From his interview with project lead Catherine Véronneau: IEEE Spectrum: Can […]
UPDATE: Launch scrubbed due to weather just a few minutes before launch. See you Saturday for another try! Today, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule is scheduled to shuttle two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. This will be the first time humans will launch to space from the United States […]
Note-taking is more than just cribbing information so its easier to study for a test later. Notes are taken by active learners engaging with the information. In fact, the act of taking notes is actually internalizing that information with the learner. Students who take notes are actually seven times more likely to remember those facts […]
Back in March, when we were all being asked to stay in our homes for God knows how long, you probably thought about a whole host of tasks youd love to accomplish with all this new-found downtime in your house. Like many, maybe you thought this would be a good opportunity to plow through that […]
In the new work from home world, you may still find yourself missing some of the amenities of your old digs back at the office. Back at your work desk, you likely had a system in place, with options and equipment for keeping all your tech up and running. On the companys dime, it was […]
The Slothbot is a slow-moving, energy-efficient observation robot that’s also an adorable sloth
