by Warp Institute | Dec 20, 2021 | 💡 Innovation, 🤖 Robotics
Researchers at the University of California Riverside, UCR, have developed a new way of dealing with oil spills at sea. They have developed a kind of film that floats on water and is able to navigate – a floating robot in other words."Our motivation was to...
by Warp Institute | Sep 21, 2021 | ♻️ Green Tech, 🤖 Robotics
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...
by Warp Institute | Sep 9, 2021 | 📈 Human Progress, 🛰 Space, 🤖 Robotics
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...
by Warp Institute | Aug 26, 2021 | ❤️ Health Tech, 🤖 Robotics
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....
by Warp Institute | Aug 13, 2021 | 📈 Human Progress, 🤖 Robotics, 🧠 Artificial Intelligence
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...
