Core77, one of our favorite design blogs, recently featured some pretty impressive stair-climbing robots (the one above is from the Intelligent Robot Lab at the University of Tsukuba). For many more creative solutions to stairs, see this blog post.

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Festo’s new robotic penguins can fly, swim and communicate with each other via sonar. Anyone else worried about impending penguin world domination? [Time]

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Happy Friday, everyone!

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Just eight years ago, the people of William Kamkwamba’s village in Malawi, Africa were experiencing a devastating famine. William, 14 years old at the time, was forced to drop out of school because his family could no longer afford to pay for his education (approx. $80 a year). So what did William do? Like any good engineer, he began to research and look for creative solutions.

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This week the New York Times brought to light an alarming issue that has been plaguing the NFL: the number of concussions that players are receiving. Two weeks ago, San Francisco 49ers safety Michael Lewis suffered his third concussion of the season, in only the fifth game of the season. And on Monday, Philadelphia Eagles’ Running Back Brian Westbrook suffered a major concussion. To better protect players’ health, Riddell created the Revolution helmet, which reduces the risk of concussions.

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