10 years ago 4 Hispanic high school kids and their cheap PVC pipe robot beat reigning champion MIT in a national underwater robotics competition. With no experience, 800 bucks, used...
We’d like to pay tribute to a very talented artist and designer, Rober Kinoshita, who died last month at age 100. He will be remembered as the designer of three...
By now you may have heard about the experienced drone pilot Mark Taylor who recently bought DJI's expensive new Inspire 1 ($2,900-$3,400). He was excited to use the drone’s auto-takeoff...
Here is an awesome fictional advertising campaign for the future. Which procedure would you choose first? Cyber eyes, heart, lungs, spine, or cellular regeneration? The dream of extreme health and...
Sepios isn’t the first robotic fish out there, but it’s a work of art gracefully swimming through the water and sea grass. Other robotic fish are not extremely flexible and...
Meccanoid is an Erector Set on steroids! It’s a kit for building a life-size robot, a rover, a dinosaur or whatever you want. You can easily program your creation to...
Drones are banned for commercial use unless you have been given a license/exemption granted by the FAA. That really stinks for all the Real Estate, Agricultural, and Photography businesses out there...
How would you like to have a personal assistant to follow behind you and carry all your stuff? Here comes Budgee, the rolling carry-all. Just load him up and tell...
There are over 2 million amputees in the United States with 185,000 amputations every year. Isn’t it time to update the traditional process of making prosthetics? How about making them...
There are plenty of explosions, flipped cars and screaming humans in the new Avengers trailer. Hulk is completely out of control and the superheroes battle among themselves as they struggle...
Have you ever been to the beach and watched someone way out in deep water get into trouble? It’s stressful to watch a person bobbing and gasping for air while...
You’ve seen those elaborate pictures people have created in the sand. Well now Disney has developed a Beachbot Turtle that turns beaches into massive drawings. It’s the world’s first autonomous...
Okay, you can admit it. You would LOVE to own and pilot a Pacific Rim robot! Which one would you choose? So we were browsing around Amazon last month and...
Dave the robot will someday be able to understand you better and fix you whatever you want. We can’t wait! There are already robots making pancakes, burgers, pizza, noodles and beer. For...
Brave little VolcanoBot 1 has been diving into active volcanos in Hawaii. It doesn’t mind exploring fissures and lava tubes for researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab. It descended to...
Do you need more proof that robots are superior? Visitors at CES 2015 challenged the Versaball robot to a game of Beer Pong. Did anyone beat the bot? It’s really...
Mercedes CEO Dieter Zetsche was seen last week playing with a giant eyeball robot on wheels. Dieter let us know that “Cambot” was shy, and a little jealous that R2D2...
Are you ready for 2015 – the year of the drone? Manufacturers estimate there are 500,000 hobbyists flying these aerial vehicles across America. Are you there yet? Want to keep...
Camel racing is very popular in many of the Arab States in the Persian Gulf area. But forcing small 4 year old children (purchased in India , Pakistan and Sudan)...
Evolution doesn’t happen without a fight. Chappie is a new kind of life form, a new step in evolution. Following in the footsteps of Elysium and District 9, this movie...
Wouldn’t it be cool to watch a video and text your friends while driving to work? You can, if you’re in a self-driving car. Google first demonstrated the autonomous car...
Ready for the New Year? Written any new goals – or will you just pull out the same list from last year and try again? How about something different – making a...
If you have a 3D printer at home, you can build a Flamethrower. Does using this fit into the category of self-protection? Will you avoid problems with new gun laws?...
It was inevitable; robots are now taking airplane flights with you! Athena became the first paying airline passenger on a Lufthansa flight from LAX to Germany. She’s 6-2 and looks...
Robots are great for repetitive tasks, and brick laying is definitely repetitive. They’re a little slow, but they don’t need lunch and bathroom breaks! Do brick masons really enjoy the...