Plastic pollution is a big problem affecting almost every corner of our planet. Students from ETH Zurich University in Switzerland, together with volunteers, are trying to tackle plastic pollution at the stage before it reaches the oceans. The students have designed...
On September 1st the NASA rover Perseverance collected the first core rock sample from the planet Mars, a historic event that means we can better understand the planet. The Perseverance rover was first sent to Mars in 2020 in collaboration with the European Space...
Xenobot is the term used for small robots consisting of living cells. They make up a completely new life form. According to one of the researchers behind the first xenobots, professor Josh Bongard, there are almost no limits to the potential of this new biotechnology....
Facebook has released Droidlet, which is an open platform based on open-source code. With the help of the Droidlet, you can build an embodied robot that can recognize natural language, navigate its surroundings and react to some input. Robots built in the Droidlet...
Stephen Rodan is an engineer with a passion for coral reefs, especially restoring coral reefs in the wild. Stephen wanted to have a positive impact on the environment so he started the Beyond Coral Foundation which sets out to protect, conserve and restore coral reefs...
An inch-long robot will help farmers and fish farmers to have as environmentally friendly a business as possible. In each case, the technology behind the robot will contribute to new technologies that can be used in other micro-robots in the future.A research team at...