If I asked you to design the perfect robot for throwing a block, you'd probably think of something humanoid, with legs for stability and hands for grasping. And who could blame you? If humans are good at anything, it's throwing stuff.
A lot, as it turns out. Above you'll see a soft robot that learned how to do flips. Each color-coded "voxel," or unit, within this robot serves a purpose. Black means a rigid piece, and gray means a soft piece, neither of which do anything actively.
Why the US Navy is sending robots out to sea | Popular Science
Unmanned vessels like Saildrone and MANTAS can expand the Navy's understanding of the oceans as potential battlefields.
The sea is vast, and full of secrets, and the US Navy is in the business of knowing them. This fall, in both the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, the Navy experimented with new robotic boats.
Robots: Gecko-like coating gives robot hand a delicate touch | New Scientist
Mechanical hands with human-like fingers are more adaptable than the simple two-pronged clamps found on industrial robots, but they struggle to match their strength.
Geckos’ feet are covered in tiny hairs that split into even smaller strands that each create a molecular attraction to the material the animal is climbing on.
Can Former SpaceX Engineers Improve Pizza, a Perfect Food, With Robots? - Eater LA
In a brick-lined industrial building in Hawthorne, a bright-red canopy and an equally red truck sit outside the entrance to Stellar Pizza, a startup that hopes to introduce the first fully functional pizza robot to Southern California.
Founded by former SpaceX engineers Benson Tsai, Brian Langone, and James Wahawisan, the fully mobile machine will soon roll around the streets in a truck, serving long-fermented dough pizza to order.
Robots and automation can't be at the cost of people's well-being
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At DHL's warehouses in the US there are 1,500 robots working this Christmas, double the usual number as the company wants to make sure deliveries reach on time during a busy period.
Bringing in the robots is the company's way of maintaining efficiency amid supply-chain disruptions that are a feature of the global economic rebound following the Covid-19 pandemic. More humans also have been brought in but people are no longer able to do the work unaided by technology.
Robots taking more jobs because of COVID-19 pandemic – San Bernardino Sun
As we enter the third year of the coronavirus pandemic , the debate surrounding the economy's future rages ever higher. Remote work, supply chain immunization, and even the consumerism at the heart of the U.S. economy have seized center stage as the world continues to grapple with COVID-19.
Long before the pandemic hit, researchers have argued that substantial changes in the way we work are underway due to the accelerated deployment of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, mobile robotics, and blockchain.
These Researchers Are Working On Humanoid Robots That Can Fly
Italian researchers are engineering a jet-propelled humanoid flying robot that could provide people with disaster response and lay the groundwork for developing flying human exoskeleton suits. This is just the latest example of what researchers are doing with engineering.
Taking robots a step further, humanoid robots that can venture into dangerous territory that humans usually can't or shouldn't reach are beneficial.
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