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This Self-Folding Lamp Definitely Paves The Way For Real Transformers
With countless wires protruding from the side, as a lamp, this creation from researchers at Harvard is a disappointment at best. But as a demonstration of future technologies that promise to revolutionise manufacturing — like printable, self-assembling electronics — it’s about as awesome as tech demos can get.
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Meet The Drone That’s Guiding New Students Around MIT This Fall
Navigating a new campus is all part of the nostalgic movie montage that is first year of university. Meet the tour guide! It’s…a drone? That’s the concept behind Skycall, a playful prototype that’s designed to help visiting Harvard students find their way around MIT’s notoriously confusing campus — which has been called “one of mankind’s…
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Printable Self-Assembling Bots Will One Day Be Our Affordable Minions
There seem to be two major camps when it comes to robotic research these days: those working to create the most capable and human-like robots with no concern over cost, and those looking to build useful robots but on the cheap. And the researchers at Harvard and MIT behind this printable inchworm, obviously fall into…
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Lonely Scientists Make A Robot With A Gentle Touch
A typical robot does not know that you must never shake a baby. And a typical robot just doesn’t have a tender touch. But now scientists at Harvard have developed a robotic tentacle so gentle that it can wrap around flower without breaking it.