Posted on April 16th, 2010 by axb
The good folks at Festo are up to their usual biomimicry mischief again. This time, they’ve made a robotic appendage based on the fluid dexterity of an elephant trunk. The “hands” of this new mechanical arm are sensitive enough to grab items as fragile as a tomato without harming them, making it ideal for manufacturing.
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Tags: Biomimicry, Electrical, Industrial / Manufacturing, Mechanical, Robotics
Posted on April 16th, 2010 by axb
PUMA recently announced a complete re-design of their products’ packaging, dropping cardboard boxes for a cleaner, sleeker, bag. This change will reduce the company’s environmental “pawprint” substantially, cutting Co2 emissions by 25% and shrinking their paper usage by 65%.
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Tags: Environment, Environmental
Posted on April 15th, 2010 by axb
This week (and pretty much every other week), our enthusiasm for robots knows no bounds.
In another example of African ingenuity, a Tongolese student named Sam Togo has made a walking humanoid robot using only spare TV parts. Sam says that the next steps for his robot (named SAM10) will be to program it to sense objects in its path and to greet people with a “hello.” Watch a video after the jump.
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Tags: Electrical, Mechanical, Robotics
Posted on April 15th, 2010 by axb
Remember Robonaut 2, NASA’s latest robotic astronaut? Well, now it looks like this awesome android might be launching as soon as September. Check out NASA’s latest video of R2 being put through some final tests [after jump].
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Posted on April 14th, 2010 by axb
Tap water is indisputably a more environmentally-friendly drinking choice than bottled water. But now, rising levels of pharmaceuticals in the water supply are raising concerns about the safety of the tap.
This situation has prompted four Chemical Engineering students at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada to design a wastewater treatment system that could remove 90 percent of pharmaceuticals and other potentially harmful compounds.
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Tags: Chemical, Civil
