Robotics
Roomba Picks Up a Mint

Roomba Picks Up a Mint

The cleaning robots have joined forces! No, I don’t mean the robots connected to each other in the way that the individual parts of Voltron did in order to form a larger, more powerful, form. I am referring to a…

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Robotics

Robot Ascending Staircase

If you ever find yourself running away from an evil robot army, one way to evade them is to climb the stairs. Robots that use rolling wheels as a form of locomotion are going to be stuck at the bottom…

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health, Robotics, Science
Implant Uses Brain Waves to Move Robotic Arm

Implant Uses Brain Waves to Move Robotic Arm

A team of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists at Brown University and Harvard Medical School have created a specialized brain-computer interface. It is called the BrainGate Neural Interface System. The project has been going on for more than a…

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Robotics

MIT Duo Creates Algorithm To Power Replicating “Smart Sand”

Inanimate matter programmed to spontaneously create duplicates of any object. That’s what MIT student Kyle Gilpin and computer science and engineering professor Daniela Rus have figured out how to do (in theory, of course). The duo’s research project and subsequent…

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