Robotics - Levana Public School

Greek city locals help design street furniture 3D-printed from their plastic waste

Posted on 17/01/2019

Towards the end of 2017 we highlighted a research concept that turned plastic waste into street furniture. Print Your City has now gone from early prototypes to city scale project with the launch of a Zero Waste Lab in Thessaloniki, Greece, where locals can take their plastic waste and have it turned into urban furniture. […]

The future of robotics: Mesmer animatronics in action

Posted on 21/09/201821/09/2018

A system combining robotics and animation software to create lifelike humanoid characters has been demonstrated in a new video by Engineered Arts. Dubbed Mesmer, the technology promises the entertainment industry cheaper results by pulling disparate technologies into a single package designed to work seamlessly together. By combining animatronics with robotic sensors, the firmware to make […]

Real-life Transformer changes from robot to car and back again

Posted on 04/05/201804/05/2018

There are a few different things people look for in a car. Some look for high performance. Others favor fuel economy. And some just want it to transform into a 4-meter (13-foot) robot. In a surprising turn of events for the last camp, the dream of owning an automotive automaton is now a step closer […]

$10 million XPrize contest looks to usher in the era of real-life robotic avatars

Posted on 20/03/2018

XPrize contests are nothing if not examples of big picture thinking. Following multi-million dollar competitions to put private spacecraft on the moon, reimagine C02 and tackle illiteracy in the developing world, the organization has just announced a new initiative to accelerate the development of real-life robotic avatars, which could one day be used to carry out tasks like caregiving or […]

The walking, crawling, rolling, jumping, swimming “millirobot” that could carry drugs through your body

Posted on 02/02/201802/02/2018

There are plenty of designs for tiny robots that could one day be swimming and crawling through our bodies to deliver drugs, patch up wounds or clean out clogged arteries. But most of these are limited to one method of movement and might not handle complex terrain. Now, a team from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems […]

One small backflip for a robot is one giant leaping backflip for humankind

Posted on 22/11/201722/11/2017

Something that often bothers me about sci-fi is the loner inventor trope. A guy in a garage builds a robot, or AI, or frequently both that are somehow decades beyond the technology of his day, and all the wild implications of his vast technological leap are the fuel for the next two and a half hours of […]

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