Joe Rizzi first heard the underwater songs of humpback whales a decade ago while scuba diving near Hawaii. Enthralled, he decided to pipe their migration music into his beachfront home.
Joe Rizzi first heard the underwater songs of humpback whales a decade ago while scuba diving near Hawaii. Enthralled, he decided to pipe their migration music into his beachfront home.
In the “Star Wars” movies, moisture farmers on dry planets like Tattoine use droids to help with the repetitive, backbreaking labor, but that’s in a galaxy far, far away. There’s no doubt that robots are cool , but are robots on farms far off in our future?
Researchers have shown how to create morphing robotic mechanisms and shape-shifting sculptures from a single sheet of paper in a method reminiscent of origami, the Japanese art of paper folding.
SUNNYVALE, CA and KAMUELA, HI-- - Liquid Robotics®, an ocean data services provider and developer of the Wave Glider®, the first wave-powered, autonomous marine robot, today launched the PacX Wave Gliders ...
Illustrated by Joe Vax and Dominic Bianchian, the paperback, out Wednesday, features an introduction by Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane. Speaking of the book’s chief instigator, Alec Sulkin ( @thesulk ), McFarlane writes: “As a physically frail man who despises hard work, Alec was the perfect person to take a format that requires small, nine-second bursts of typing at seven-hour intervals, and ...
If and when the day comes that robots descend on Fort McMurray, it may come down to elementary students to save us all.[...]
Farm robots are here, not just in Star Wars. Some dairies already use milking machines that clean udders and monitor cow health, plus do the milking, and a fully automated tractor is coming out this fall.
As the world’s population ages, Quantum International Corp. is exploring new opportunities to deliver advanced personal assistance robots capable of helping the elder
Willow Garage sets its open-source software free to attract software developers and help make robots commonplace, but detractors say giving the software away is bad for business.