Swedish EV manufacturer NEVS-owned British in-wheel motor technology company Protean Electric has introduced a revolutionary drive/steering module called Protean 360+ that will make parallel parking haters clamoring for it. Protean 360+ is 360-degree steering technology that pretty much is what it says it is and then some. It is an advanced electric drive ‘corner module’ […]
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BolaWrap Is Non-lethal Hand-held Remote Restraint That Batman Would Gladly Use
Whoever invented bolas must be proud. Why? Because, the invention not survived to this day, but has gotten a high-tech twist by the way of BolaWrap. BolaWrap is a non-lethal restraining device. It is not Taser, if that’s what you are thinking. In any case, Taser is not always non-lethal, if history has taught us […]
Watch IHMC Robots Walking Over Rough Terrain With Automatic Footstep Planning
I am not going lie. I just can’t wrap my head around the science behind how IHMC made Boston Dynamics’ Atlas and NASA Valkyrie robots navigate over a rough terrain. The development was, btw, a response to DARPA Robotics Challenge that calls for improvements in robotics technology for disaster relief operations. DARPA Robotics Challenge was […]
AI-enabled Pet Door Stops Cat From Bringing In Dead Animals
Amazon engineer Ben Hamm is a cat owner with a very typical cat owner problem. His cat, named Metric, likes to bring home dead or half dead game home. Metric is like every other cats; he loves to hunt even though he is well fed. You can’t blame Metric. He’s merely a cat doing what […]
Scientists Developed Robotic Fish That Is Powered By Synthetic Blood
It looks like the future of robots is headed towards the ‘organic’ route. In a new research published in Nature by scientists from Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania, it details the development of a soft robotic fish, a lion fish of sort, that is powered by what could only be describe as “artificial […]
Wi-Charge Announced Production-ready Long-range Wireless Charger
Remember Wi-Charge Long Distance Wireless Charging promised by Tel Aviv-based company, Wi-Charge? Well, it has recently announced the world’s first production-ready long-range wireless power product which companies interested in developing the technology can acquire. Currently, there are at least two other types of technology that promised long range wireless charging. One uses radio frequency and […]
Amazon Revealed Transforming Prime Air Delivery Drone
Yes. Yes. We have all heard about unmanned delivery promised by Amazon, but until today, it has yet to materialize. The world’s largest online retailer hasn’t stop working on it though, both on the system and the hardware. Regarding the latter, the company has revealed its latest iteration that is vastly different, and dare we […]
India Farmer Created A ‘Tree Bike’ That Scales 100-ft Tree With Ease
An ingenious farmer in South India has developed a ‘tree bike’ that will allow him to scale 100-foot-tall Areca palm trees with ease. It is dubbed a ‘tree bike’ because, this ‘vehicle’ is essentially made using standard motorcycle components which include accelerator, clutch, brakes, shock absorbers and a 2.1 horsepower gasoline engine. However, instead of […]
How Technology Has Changed The Way We Learn Forever
Today we are well into the digital age, and the use of technology and it’s increasing advancements are shaping the way that we do almost everything from communicating to shopping, working, learning and even eating. Whether we’re ordering new clothes online, working remotely using cloud-based software, communicating face-to-face with family in another country using FaceTime […]
New AI Tech Generates Animated Portraits From A Single Image
First, technology found a way to fake voice of real people, making them say whatever its creator(s) wanted them to say. Then we saw how Deepfakes could fake a person’s action. After that we learned that with AI and machine learning, technology can generate realistic looking people, bring Salvador Dali back to life (granted, this […]