Interesting Engineering

Scientists build insect-inspired robots that float, paddle, and stride on water surfaces

Scientists build insect-inspired soft robots on water using HydroSpread, a new fabrication method for flexible films.

DeepMind’s robotic ballet: An AI for coordinating manufacturing robots

With RoboBallet, the complexity of computation also grew with the complexity of the system, but at a far slower rate. (The computations grew linearly with the growing number of tasks and obstacles, ...
IGN

Queen takes Bishop.

Have you seen the new Predator: Badlands trailer? If you have — and you’re a fan of the Alien franchise — you might have noticed more than a few nods to the famous sci-fi horror franchise. But fans ...
IEEE

Assist-as-Needed Control of a Shoulder Rehabilitation Robot Using a Virtual Biomechanical Model and Online Stiffness Adaptation

Abstract: This paper presents an adaptive Assist-as-Needed (AAN) control framework for a shoulder rehabilitation robot enhanced by a Virtual Biomechanical Shoulder Robot Model (VBSRM) and an online ...
WPXI

Using pollen to make paper, sponges and more

At first glance, Nam-Joon Cho’s lab at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University looks like a typical research facility — scientists toiling away, crowded workbenches, a hum of machinery in the ...

Silicon Valley wanted to build floating libertarian paradises on the ocean. The plan failed — but now seasteading is back

Silicon Valley wanted to build floating libertarian paradises on the ocean. The plan failed — but now seasteading is back - IN FOCUS: They promised utopian paradises, unshackled by governments and ...