A head-on view of the Beatbot Amphibious RoboTurtle, on display last week at CES 2025BeatbotWhen designing a fast, agile, and adaptable underwater robot, why not take inspiration from nature? That’s precisely what China’s Beatbot did with its bio-inspired Amphibious RoboTurtle.Unveiled as a prototype at CES last week, this autonomous robot is built for tasks...
Credit: PixabayHumans are naturally social creatures, thriving on connection, communication, and shared experiences that shape our identities and create a sense of belonging. However, in today’s fast-paced, digital world, feelings of loneliness and social isolation have become disturbingly widespread.The World Health Organization (WHO) has highlighted the widespread nature of loneliness, with approximately 25 percent...
This little gadget gives you instant, inexpensive access to the microscopic world KickstarterSix years after introducing the first iMicro smartphone microscope, the team has launched its newest innovation: the iMicro Q3p. This compact, fingertip-sized device is lightweight and brings affordable, portable microscopy to anyone with a phone camera. The latest model also includes polarization capabilities,...
LG Display's latest flexible screen prototype can be bent and twisted, and also stretched to add 50% to its lengthLG Display has unveiled what it claims is the world’s first stretchable screen capable of expanding by 50%, surpassing its 2022 prototype's 20% stretch.For over a decade, the company has refined flexible screens designed for...
Pilot cam view from Aurora as it reaches 82,500 ftDawn AerospaceThe dream of commercial supersonic flight is inching closer to reality. On November 12, 2024, Dawn Aerospace’s 16-ft (4.8-m) autonomous Mk-II Aurora rocket-powered plane reached Mach 1.1, officially breaking the sound barrier.Since the Concorde’s retirement in 2003, civil supersonic travel has largely faded into...
The PongBot Pace S Pro on the left features more than double the drills of the Pace S, shown on the rightPongBotA cutting-edge robotic tennis partner, PongBot, has surpassed $1.7 million on Kickstarter, with weeks left for additional backers. PongBot isn’t your average ball-serving machine; it's designed to revolutionize tennis practice with AI-driven features...
The haptic patch has a number of potential applicationsNorthwestern UniversityResearchers have developed an innovative method allowing people to feel sensations transmitted directly to the skin. Besides applications in areas like gaming and telepresence, this technology has potential to assist visually impaired individuals.In 2019, a team led by Professor John A. Rogers from Northwestern University...
Credit: PixabayWhat started as a bonus question in a high school math competition has led to an astonishing 10 new proofs of the ancient Pythagorean theorem.It has long been considered impossible to use trigonometry to demonstrate a theorem that is foundational to trigonometric principles, as this creates a logical fallacy of circular reasoning by...
The Prospr robot is additionally intended to address the shortage of farm workers Robotics PlusSpraying orchards and vineyards is not environmentally friendly, as tractors emit exhaust while applying herbicides and pesticides. This issue was a key motivation behind the development of the electric, autonomous Prospr robot.Created by the New Zealand agritech firm Robotics Plus, this...
"Depth Pro synthesizes high-resolution depth maps with unparalleled sharpness and high-frequency details"Apple's Machine Learning Research team has created a foundational AI model for "zero-shot metric monocular depth estimation." Depth Pro allows for the rapid generation of detailed 3D depth maps from a single 2D image.Our brains interpret visual information from two sources—our eyes. Each...
