Robotics

Meet Your New Corporate Office Mate: A ‘Brainless’ Robot

New York Times: The new workers zipped around the office completing mundane tasks like fetching coffee, delivering meals and handing off packages. They did not get in anyone’s way or violate personal space. They waited unobtrusively for elevators with unfailing politeness. And,…

‘Part of the kill chain’: how can we control weaponised robots?

The Guardian: The security convoy turned on to Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Boulevard at around 3:30pm on 27 November 2020. The VIP was the Iranian scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, widely regarded as the head of Iran’s secret nuclear weapons programme. He was driving…

3D Printed Gillbert the Robo-Fish Keeps Waterways Clean by Vacuuming Microplastics

3DPrint.com: A student from the University of Surrey designed a 3D printed robotic fish for a new contest, and her winning entry, a Robo-Fish called Gillbert, happily vacuums up…

Nanoparticles in Medicine—Microbots to Blood Clots

IEEE Spectrum: As nanotechology burrows into an increasing number of medical technologies, new developments in nanoparticles point to the ways that treatments can today be nanotechnologically targeted. In one case, would-be end effectors on microrobots are aimed at clearing up cases…