Walmart Deploys Shelf-Scanning Robots So Staff Can “Serve You Better”
While Amazon’s ambitious Go grocery store eliminates the need for cashier and check out, American retail supermarket Walmart wants to eliminate using humans to check […]
Everyone’s Favorite Geek Girl Made A Robot That Feeds Her Soup
Simone Giertz makes robots which are mostly quirky and pretty much useless. What she makes is like the western version of the 101 Unuseless Japanese […]
Dutch Company Wants To Use Crows To Clean Up City Of Cigarette Butts
Apparently, each year, the number of cigarette butts discarded onto the streets of the Netherlands outnumbered the population of the country by over 350 times […]
This High-tech Turret Can Detect And Remove Rogue Drones From The Sky
As much as I like drones, the sheer number of them buzzing in the sky has quickly put them on par with houseflies which means […]
In Future, Facebook May Make Your Still Profile Image Come Alive
There is something about animating a still portrait, however subtle the animation might be, that intrigues everyone. Unlike absolute still image, an animated portrait seems […]
See-through Suppressor In Super Slow-mo Is Strangely Mesmerizing To Watch
When it comes to gun suppressor, AKA silencer, people often laugh at how Hollywood portrays it as a stuff of absolute silence. Obviously, that is […]
Cassie Is A Torso-less Robot That May One Day Deliver Packages To You
Wheels and tracks are easiest to get a robot going, but those mobility solutions have their limitations, and to mention, does not satisfy our sci-fi […]
Japanese Robot Dog Detects Smelly Feet, Faints If The Smell Is Unbearable
Smelly feet is a problem that plague modern day homo sapiens. It is a personal hygiene issue which people prefer not to talk about because, […]
Z-Arm Robotic Arm Is The Closest You’d Get To Tony Stark’s JARVIS
Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Tony Stark, AKA Iron Man is a fictional character who had many green with envy because he has JARVIS, the sophisticated AI […]
This Cyborg Dragonfly Is The Microbot From Deception Point In Real Life
In Dan Brown’s Deception Point (Pocket Books, ISBN-13 978-1416524809), the author wrote about a breakthrough in biomimicry; a dragonfly-like microbot no longer than a centimeter […]
New Species Of Frog Discovered In S.W. India Is Somewhat Of An Abomination
Human civilization may be a grand 6,000 years old, but lot of things on our lovely little blue marble remain undiscovered. Case-in-point: the Bhupathy Purple […]