Drones Can Go Through Windows Now. That’s Good, Right?
There’s a quadcopter drone that uses spring-loaded arms and a process called "rapid aerial morphing" to fold itself up as it flies. So we’re a step closer to real-life Transformers.
Getting All Our Robot Ducks In A Row
In Japan, there's a little white robot swimming through rice fields, imitating a duck! It's actually helping to grow the rice by aerating the water and stopping weeds from growing.
Row, Row, Row Your Bot
Autonomous robot boats are a thing! Over time, researchers have taught them to row themselves gently down the stream and to connect to each other autonomously - soon they could help clean the water or even turn themselves into temporary footbridges.
Laser Apple Robots
A New Zealand company is testing a robot that’s supposed to move through an apple orchard, spot ripe fruit, yank it from the tree and bring it back to the farmer.
Robot Cake
I’m not Martha Stewart class when it comes to cakes - I may not even be Iron Sheik class yet. But the robot cake was a big hit with the first graders at today’s birthday party so I’ve got that going for me.
Turn Off Your Millennials To Snake People Extension: What I’ve Been Reading This Week
Some excellent links from the past week.
Fired From Job In Scotland
Poor Pepper.
I make robots, I guess
Two year old: “Papa made a robot last night.” Me: “I did?”
Humanoid Robot Asimo
Presenting the three year old's Halloween costume!
Robot and Franc: Soda-Stealing Robot Primed for Caffeine and Sugar-Fueled Mayhem
And in France, there's a robot on a sugar high looking to break into soda machines