PRINCETON, N.J. — Scientists have taken a cue from nature’s fuzziest insects, creating a caterpillar-like robot that can bend and twist when navigating mazes. This new technology owes its flexibility to the art of origami, which influenced the design of this innovative soft robot. Soft robots are challenging models to…
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Imagine a desktop buddy, a little robot friend, that communicates in nothing but GIFs. Well imagine no longer, my fine friends, because someone has actually created possibly the greatest gift to humanity – and they have shared exactly how its done. Bless this day. Here are the step-by-step instructions, courtesy…
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SAN FRANCISCO — In case anyone still had doubts that Uber sees driverless cars as the future of its business, the company’s CEO just cleared things up. Speaking Wednesday at Vanity Fair‘s New Establishment Summit in San Francisco, Travis Kalanick said that Uber, which recently began testing self-driving cars in…
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