28 January 2016 | Wyss Institute, Harvard | Materials science and mathematics combine to enable the printing of shapeshifting architectures that mimic the natural movements of plants A team of scientists at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has evolved […]
Atlas cleans House (Published on Jan 14, 2016 | IHMC) Atlas robot at IHMC demonstrating whole-body coordinated motions. Robot is built by Boston Dynamics. Control algorithm is by IHMC. Video speed up is 20X real time. Fireproof Aerial RObot System (FAROS) (Published on Jan 3, 2016 | KAIST) KAIST Researchers Developed a Firefighter Drone That Flies […]
21 January 2015 | WEF | Remarkable advances in artificial intelligence may soon have implications for the future of warfare. What if autonomous weapon systems replace both soldiers and generals? World Economic Forum Annual Meeting is going on in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. Specialists from all over the world have done an in-depth discussion that explores the […]
21 January 2016 | KAIST | KAIST researchers developed a wall-climbing scout drone to fight fires in high-rises, finding the source of the fires and locating people trapped inside. The 1974 American disaster film Towering Inferno depicted well the earnest struggles of firefighters engaged in ending a fire at a 138-story skyscraper. To this day, […]
21 January 2016 | Harvard | Soft robotic grippers improve ability to collect delicate underwater specimens During a 2014 talk on his exploration of deep sea coral reefs, Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY) marine biologist David Gruber showed a video of clunky robotic hands collecting fragile specimens of coral and sponges from […]
21 January 2016 | Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Sikorsky, A Lockheed Martin Company, using a UH-60MU Black Hawk helicopter enabled with Sikorsky’s MATRIX Technology and CMU’s Land Tamer autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV), recently participated in a joint autonomy demonstration that proved the capability of new, ground-air cooperative missions. Such missions could prevent warfighters’ […]
20 January 2016 | University of Cambridge | Latest research reveals why geckos are the largest animals able to scale smooth vertical walls – even larger climbers would require unmanageably large sticky footpads. Scientists estimate that a human would need adhesive pads covering 40% of their body surface in order to walk up a wall like […]
20 January 2016 | WASHINGTON—After a month-long public vote, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) today announced that it has given its annual Luddite Award to a loose coalition of scientists and luminaries who stirred fear and hysteria in 2015 by raising alarms that artificial intelligence (AI) could spell doom for humanity. ITIF argued […]