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'Sartorial robots' zip your clothes up for you

Image source Part of a project called Sartorial Robots, which an MIT student starter a couple of years ago, this teensy contraption was designed to close zippers as it travels along their surface. It's obviously not small enough to zip your fly up right now, but it can already work on sleeves,
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The FAA wants you to have a pilot's license to fly commercial drones

If you're planning to shoot your next movie using a drone, beware: you may need to meet some stringent conditions to stay in the Federal Aviation Administration's good books. Sources tell the Wall Street Journal that the agency will propose commercial drone rules that require a conventional pilot's
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Tiny Humanoid Robot Learning to Fly Real Airplanes

As much trouble as humanoid robots are to build and control, we keep on trying to make it work because it's easiest to operate in a human environment if you can do the same things that a human can. There are some good arguments for why it makes a lot more sense to modify our environments to better
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Watch this soft robot walk through snow and get squished by a car

Soft robots aren't just supremely flexible; they can take quite a bruising, too. If you need proof, a team of Harvard and Cornell researchers has developed a rugged soft robot that can survive conditions which would wreck stiffer machines. As you'll see in the video below, the automaton's silicone
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NASA is training Swarmie robots to prepare alien worlds for our arrival

For a long time the trend has been for engineers to design the smartest, most advanced robots possible to complete a task, but maybe a swarm of smaller, simpler ones makes more sense. This is a concept being investigated by NASA with its Swarmie test program. It’s an adorable name for what is
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