Robots
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Hyundai Motors Reportedly Bought Boston Dynamics For Almost $1.4 Billion
What to do with Boston Dynamics? That’s seemingly the question a few companies have been unable to answer because for the third time in seven years the robotics research company has a new owner as The Korea Economic Daily is reporting that Hyundai Motors has spent almost $US1 ($1.4) billion dollars to buy the R&D…
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Resourceful Hacker Invents an Automatic Crust-Cutting Robot So They Never Have to Grow Up
For many kids, crusts are the bane of a delicious PB&J sandwich, but they eventually grow up to embrace a bread’s chewy outer wrapping. There are some holdouts, however, such as Andrew DeGonge who continues to despise crusts so much into adulthood that they built a smart automated robot that can automatically de-crust a sandwich.
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Curved Origami Offers A Creative Route To Making Robots And Other Mechanical Devices
The big idea Building robotic grippers that can firmly grasp heavy objects and also gently grasp delicate ones usually requires complicated sets of gears, hinges and motors. But it turns out that it’s also possible to make grippers out of simple sheets of flexible material with the right creases in them. Our lab at Arizona…
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This Tongue-Like Robot Gripper Can Slurp Its Way Into Tight Spaces
In another example of unsettling biomimicry, engineering researchers from the University of New South Wales in Sydney were inspired by an elephant’s trunk and designed what looks more like a robotic tongue that can firmly grasp objects by wrapping around them like a snake.