by Robert Beckhusen | Oct 8, 2012 | Monitor
The 3-D printer craze has taken off with everyone from hobbyists and amateur gunsmiths to giant corporations. Less known is how the U.S. military has caught the desktop manufacturing bug too, and is designing printable components for bomb detectors and prototype...
by Liat Clark, Wired.co.uk | Jul 31, 2012 | Monitor
An engineering team has published a paper revealing that by giving a robot the right tail, it can always land on its feet — just like a cat. The University of Pennsylvania’s Kod*lab appears to have found a way to gracefully circumvent a robot’s...