Robot Builds IKEA Table
As someone with a whole house full of IKEA furniture, this video immediately caught my attention: it features a robot assembling some of the Swedish company’s flat-packed furniture. (It also answers the age-old question, “How many people does it take to assemble an IKEA table?” The answer: two guys and a robot.) Continue reading
A Mobile App to Control a Bionic Hand
As if having a bionic hand wasn’t mind-blowing enough, now there’s an artificial hand available that you can control using a mobile phone app. The i-Limb Ultra Revolution from Touch Bionics includes four individually powered fingers and a thumb with full rotation capabilities.
Self-Driving, One-Person Car
EVL’s Spider Senses are Tingling
Peter Parker, the eternal teenager, became the Spider-Man when he was bitten by a radioactive spider. It doesn’t matter whether you’ve only seen the movies, watched a cartoon, or actually read the comic—all the sources at least agree on that point. The fact he was bitten by a radioactive anything tends to speak volumes about the safety protocols of the lab he was visiting, but I digress.
Along with superhuman strength and the ability to cling to walls, one of the common powers attributed to Mr. Parker is known as spider sense. This is represented as a sort of nebulous tingling when something is going wrong or an unseen assailant is about to ambush Spidey. EVL (an acronym that totally sounds like a supervillain organization to me) has developed its own version of this extrasensory perception, which the company has actually named SpiderSense. Continue reading
Locust-Based Robotic Vision Technology
Scientists from the universities of Lincoln and Newcastle have replicated the way locusts use visual input to keep from flying into things to develop a computer simulated model that could be used in advanced collision avoidance systems for vehicles and in other applications. The simulation has already been used to help a robot autonomously navigate a path using visual input. Continue reading
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