At last year’s China Mobile Global Partner Conference, China communication company and handset maker ZTE Corporation had a so-called “5G+ Industry Applications” area where it demoed 5G applications.
Want to hear about a creepy tech? A robotic company, called Clone (or Clone Robotics), has revealed an incredible android that uses artificial muscles just like humans rely on muscle for movements. Meet the Torso, a bimanual android upper body with artificial muscles that are remarkably close to the real […]
I am beginning to think the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology has an obsession with biomimicry—in particular, how it lands. First, they created an ornithopter bot-bird that perches, and now the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne has developed an unmanned aerial vehicle that is literally a tree-hugger.
Here’s another human creation that would benefit our future machine overlord. I am not even kidding. What you see here is a giant robot bee from the German automation company Festo. When it comes to biomimicry, Festo is never a stranger. The company has developed countless robots inspired by nature, […]
Every tech firm that makes robot dogs sticks with the same headless design. Xiaomi is no different when it developed its first Cyberdog. However, one year on, things have changed. Recently, the company unveiled its second-generation Cyberdog, aptly called Cyberdog 2.
After being swooned over by the JBMBricklayer Chameleon 70124 set, we thought we should explore another set from this up-and-coming brick-build toy brand, you know, just to be sure that 70124 ain’t a fluke. This next set that we have the opportunity to review is the T-Rex Dinosaur 70001.
When it comes to plastic construction toys featuring mostly plastic bricks with studs, the first brand to come to mind is LEGO. But if you are like me who is ready to step outside the norm of LEGO, MEGA, K-nex, and the like, and enter the realm of boundless imagination […]
I think biomimicry for a bird is clearly more challenging than, say, land or water-based animals. Why? Because in addition to making it fly like a bird and perhaps look like one with feathers and all to blend in with the real birds, it has to land like one too. […]
Roboticists are beginning to make strides in bipedal robots. That along with limbs with artificial muscles, could one day become humanoids much like those we saw in sci-fi movies like I, Robot.
Nearly everyone one knows how to build a drone, but only a handful decided that they should do it differently and actually innovates. CycloTech, ADIFO, Festo, and Passerine are among some of the handful innovators, and now, Switzerland’s École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) aka Swiss Federal Institute of Technology […]
Sarcos Robotics is perhaps better known for its exoskeleton suit, but do you know it also makes some really useful robots too? The Sarcos Guardian S is one of them. Sarcos Guardian S is what the company called “remote visual inspection platform,” which is pretty much self-explanatory.