There’s the Husky UGV, and then this camera-equipped spy tortoise that BBC uses for their Spy in the Wild series. The footage was captured deep in a Senegal forest, a place where one five-year-old chimp wanted to claim the robot as its own.
Researchers from Cornell University unveil MouseGoggles, an immersive virtual reality headset for mice that was made using low-cost, off-the-shelf components, such as smartwatch displays and tiny lenses. It offers visual stimulation over a wide field of view while tracking the mouse’s eye movements and changes in pupil size.
Photo credit: EPFL/Alain Herzog
Researchers from Switzerland’s EPFL university, led by Won Dong Shin, have developed an innovative bird robot with specialized legs that help it jump into flight. It’s called RAVEN (Robotic Avian-inspired Vehicle for multiple ENvironments) and named as such due to its articulated hips, ankles as well as feet that mimic real raven legs.
While not as fast as the SR-71 Blackbird, this bird-shaped drone developed by EPFL researchers does fly just like its real-life animal counterpart. Called LisRaptor, this raptor-inspired feathered drone features morphing wings and a twisting tail to help it zip through the air.
Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute used their robotic explorer ROV SuBastian to capture a bizarre bristle-like sea creature in the Chile Margin. This polychaete has several body segment, with each sporting a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia covered in bristles called chaetae.
MBARI researchers have discovered a never before captured on video swimming sea slug, also known as bathydevius caudactylus. It’s been nicknamed the ‘mystery mollusc’ and can be found in the ocean’s midnight zone, complete with its large gelatinous hood, paddle-like tail, and bioluminescence.
Inventor Caleb Olson unveils the Poopcopter, an innovative drone system designed to pick up after your dog. Put simply, the quadcopter is capable of being guided to the approximate location of the dog poop before using a downward-looking camera and retrieval system to grab the offending package.
You’ve seen the crab nebula, now observe what happens when a robot king crab spy encounters a stingray. We won’t keep you hanging, so what happens is that some of its king crab friends start swarming together and form pods.