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Building a Folding Shop Workbench
On their home blog, Just Measuring Up, Ash and Eileen chronicle the projects in their lives, from simple repair and maintenance jobs to arts and crafts projetcts to more ambitious home improvements....
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This Is Why There Are So Many Ties In Swimming
Tonight three legends of swimming—Michael Phelps, Chad Le Clos, and László Cseh—turned in identical times to share silver in the 100m butterfly. Last night, Simone Manuel tied for gold with Canadian...
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Pepper, the 4-foot-tall robot that “reads emotions,” makes her US debut
PALO ALTO, Calif.—Turns out it’s really hard to interview an adorable interactive robot when she's stuck on a demo loop and other journalists are trying to interview her at the same time. Nevertheless,...
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July 2016 ranks as Earth's hottest month on record
Earth just had its hottest month yet, and the record-shattering warmth shows no signs of stopping. According to NASA, global average surface temperatures during July were 0.84 degrees Celsius, or 1.51...
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How a photographer snapped that brilliant photo of Usain Bolt
It's arguably THE shot of the games so far. The world's fastest man, doing his thing a full stride or two ahead of the rest of the group, shooting a sly grin at the competition in his wake. The picture...
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Robot octopus is first step towards building the Cthulhu of our dreams
Good news for people who love terrifying news: scientists have developed a soft-bodied robot octopus capable of propelling itself around underwater, wedging itself into tiny crevices between rocks, and...
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Blob Grid Array Technique Mounts Board-To-Board
[Howard Matthews] mills his own PCBs, and man, does he hate drilling through-holes. Manually changing the bits between engraving and drilling after isolation routing? What is this? The stone age?...
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Robohub Science Communication Internship
Contract: 15-20 hours per week (compatible with studies)Duration: One-year minimumLocation: OnlineStart date: Immediately Robohub (http://robohub.org) is an international online community that connects...
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New Startup Aims to Commercialize a Brain Prosthetic to Improve Memory
A startup named Kernel came out of stealth mode yesterday and revealed its ambitious mission: to develop a ready-for-the-clinic brain prosthetic to help people with memory problems. The broad target...
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Talk to the RadioShack CEO on "Ask an Engineer," this Wednesday,...
This Wednesday, at 8pm EDT, RadioShack CEO Dene Rogers and Chairman Robert Lavan will appear as special guests on Adafruit’s “Ask an Engineer” program. This will be a great opportunity for makers to...
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WowWee CHiP is a hyper, engaging robot pet
In the 16 years since Sony introduced AIBO, the first robotic pet, consumer robotics has not exactly flowered. AIBO was a smooth-moving, shockingly intelligent and incredibly expensive product....
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GOAT Robot Leg Demonstrates Explosive Jumping
Most legged robots are easily identifiable as such, because we all know what legs look like: they look like legs. Maybe human legs, maybe mammal legs, maybe bird legs, but legs are legs. Where things...
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It’s The Future
Hey, my boss said to talk to you - I hear you know a lot about web apps? -Yeah, I’m more of a distributed systems guy now. I’m just back from ContainerCamp and Gluecon and I’m going to Dockercon next...
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Plugging into the factory of the future
But for many it remains a fuzzy or even intimidating concept. It is also a moving target as we are pushing beyond the novelty of simply connecting devices to unlocking even more value out of (insert...
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Big data and robotics: A long history together
Big data is a big deal today. Even small companies are seeing the benefits of gathering and analyzing the staggering amounts of information that are streaming in from all kinds of online sources. While...
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When Microsoft needs a tech 'miracle,' this is the team that answers the call
In 1991, Microsoft founded Microsoft Research, a division for the company's army of PhDs and scientists to pursue the coolest, wildest, most science-fictional ideas they possibly could, with the very...
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Genome sequencing: unveiling the data behind the science
High-performance computing is increasingly important for the continued progression of modern bioinformatics Posted by Ben RossiRelated topicsData Networks Storage Systems Print this pageEmail article...
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Robohub roundtable: Why do robotics crowdfunding projects fail?
by Robohub Editors Business & Finance Learn August 16, 2016 In this Robohub roundtable edition, we are joined by Sabine Hauert, Kassie Perlongo, John Payne, Audrow Nash, Yannis Erripis, with...
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3D printing adds depth to bioengineering research
Engineering and Technology Magazine 16 August 2016 3D printing holds out the hope of growing a working bladder, according to research roundup. Advances in 3D ‘bioprinting’ could see the development of...
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A Robot Buoy That Saves Whales From Boat Strikes
Twenty-two miles south of New York’s Fire Island, in an ocean region jam-packed with shipping traffic, there’s a bobbing yellow-and-blue buoy that’s actually a robot spy. It’s using advanced acoustic...
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