🤖 Robotics
Robots can do hard, dangerous and repetitive tasks 24/7 and they are fast getting more advanced and helpful.
🔌 This charging robot charges an electric car where there are no fixed chargers
If there are not enough charging posts in the parking lot, a charging robot can come to the rescue.
🥬 Vertical gardens push the future of agriculture towards the sky
Vertical gardens produce a large amount of fresh vegetables with minimal water consumption, without pesticides and genetic modification.
🔥 A drone that can fight fires where firefighters can't reach
A fire in a tall building can be tough for firefighters to reach. This drone can go as high as 300 meters to spray the fire and also detect humans in the building.
🥗 A new robot takes us one step closer to the next green revolution
A rolling laboratory will help growers tailor plant plans for each individual plant and sprout.
🛰️ NASA touches down on asteroid and collects dust to understand the origin of our Solar System
OSIRIS-REx briefly touched the surface of asteroid Bennu, and during that time collected dust samples that will be returned to Earth. Bennu is 4,5 billion years old so scientist hopes it can help us understand the origin of our Solar System.
🎢 The dice are rolled - Walmart is testing direct deliveries with drones
The pandemic is increasing interest in direct deliveries of purchases to the home. Walmart is helping to shape the retail role of the future.
🌊🗑️Self-powered underwater robot must pick up plastic on the seabed
Tons of plastics are flushed into the sea every year, especially in the Pacific Ocean. After a while, much of it ends up on the seabed and this is where the SeaClear project intends to pick it up.
🦾 Exo clothes give us super strength
Clothes that give the wearer super strength - and that can help the disabled to move freely. This is the goal of Estonian research that thinks exo clothes instead of exoskeletons.
🤖 What have you named your robot vacuum cleaner?
What happens when people are told to smash and destroy a cute robot-dinosaur called Mr. Spaghetti? MIT researcher Kate Darling tested five groups of people and the results say a lot about or relationships with robots - and why we name them.