Posted on April 20th, 2010 by axb
This year PBS’s Design Squad (hosted by mechanical engineer Nate Ball) is hosting another Trash to Treasure competition, where students ages 5-19 are invited to “recycle, re-use, and re-engineer everyday materials into an out-of-the-box invention.”
You can submit your entries online from April 5 to September 5, 2010.
Check out an awesome video of last year’s winner after the jump.
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Tags: Competitions for Students, Environmental
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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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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