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RoboBee Could Be Used to Pollinate Plants
Albert Einstein once predicated that without bees man would have only four years left on the planet. But mechanical engineer Robert Wood and graduate student Kevin Ma might disagree. The two engineers and their Harvard-based team have created a small robot no bigger than a house fly. The tiny robot, half the size of a paper clip and weighing only …
Doctor Droid: iRobot and InTouch Health Unveil Medical Bot
How would you feel if, at your next hospital visit, a robot turned up at your bedside instead of a real-life flesh and blood doctor? Bedford, Mass.-based iRobot is hoping you won’t mind. iRobot will unveil its first medical robot in Santa Barbara, California this week. The robot, which stands five feet tall, is designed to allow doctors to carry …
3 Questions for a FIRST Mentor
Last week, I caught up with Keith Gargiulo of PTC. Gargiulo is a mentor for FIRST Robotics team MARS WARS, based out of Metamora, Illinois. He’s a passionate advocate for the FIRST program, so I wanted to ask him why and how he got involved with mentoring. Here’s what he had to say: Can you describe your job as a …
Rookie Robotics Team Gears Up for FIRST Championships
MARS WARS—a student robotics team based in Metamora, Illinois, just can’t contain its excitement. The team’s been invited to participate in the FIRST Robotics championships in St. Louis in just a few weeks time. Metamora teachers and students decided they wanted to start a robotics team after attending last year’s FIRST regional playoffs. And with a lot of hard work …
Happy Birthday Product Lifecycle Stories!
Contrary to what I’ve been told by family and friends, I strongly believe everyone should have a full month to celebrate their birthday. It’s perfectly acceptable to frequently remind people it’s your birthday. Proclaim it loudly. Loud enough to drown out the sound of eyes rolling. Next month, May, marks the one-year anniversary of this blog – Product Lifecycle Stories. …
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Is Automation Stealing Manufacturing Jobs?
Are robots and other technological innovations reducing the number of manufacturing jobs? Evidence seems to point in that direction. The Wall Street Journal recently noted that: “In no other U.S. recovery since World War II have companies been simultaneously faster to boost spending on machines and software, while slower to add people to run them. Since the economy began growing …
Maillardet’s Automaton Continues to Fascinate
Today, we’re surrounded by some pretty awesome gadgets designed to make our human lives easier. And robots are at the cutting edge of this gadgetry. From war zones, disasters, operating rooms and outer space, to inside our own homes, robots are fast becoming indispensable. But where does our fascination for robots come from and when were the first robots invented? …
Robots Take Cue from Lizards and Dinosaurs
Engineers and biologists at the University of California, Berkeley have come together to build a new robot with a unique physical characteristic: a tail. The design of the appropriately named Tailbot—which looks like a toy car—is based on research of how lizards and dinosaurs move. The University of California, Berkeley team discovered that lizards use their tails to help guide …
Flying Robots: Coming to a Construction Site Near You?
My first reaction when hearing about flying robots was: If and when they take over, do we really want them flying? Relax! These robots are designed to help build structures, perhaps eventually on a large-scale. This joint venture of robotics and architecture resides as an art installation at FRAC Center Orleans in France. The brainchild of ETH Zurich roboticist Rafaello …
