By Scott Kirsner Raibert Opens Pop-Up Robot Lab to Inspire and Educate Marc Raibert, founder of Boston Dynamics and current executive director of the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI), has launched a temporary Robot Lab at CambridgeSide mall. The pop-up isn’t selling robots; instead, it gives the public hands-on experience with robotics to show what they […]
There are more than 5,400 satellites currently orbiting the Earth, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, and some of them —plus other space junk — will inevitably fall back to the surface. Earlier this month, one did. Debris from a large Chinese rocket fell into the Indian Ocean — luckily, most of it burned up as it […]
by Dan Robitzski via Scientific American via Live Science Researchers have created a synthetic form of octopus skin that can transform from a flat, 2D surface to a three-dimensional one with bumps and pits In a flash, an octopus can make like ragged-edged seaweed or coral by changing the color and texture of its skin, thus becoming nearly invisible […]
