4 robots have set sail to give us more information on our blue planet
It’s a well-known fact that we know more about outer space than we do about our oceans here on earth. With only about 10% of our oceans mapped out, we could use some help getting the facts on the waters that cover more than 70% of our planet.
On November 17, 2011, a couple pairs of robots called the Wave Gliders left San Francisco’s St. Francis Yacht Club Continue reading
The University of Pennsylvania has a poop-scooping pal
Formally the name of the project responsible for developing this robot is Perception Of Offensive Products and Sensorized Control Of Object Pickup but the acronym POOP SCOOP puts things more bluntly.
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We’ve been thinking about them for a while…
Hiro, a humanoid robot developed by professor Osamu Hasegawa at the Tokyo Institute of Technology has been proclaimed a ¨world first¨for its ability to ¨learn¨from its environment and research relevant information on the web.
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