Sony makes televisions, game consoles, laptops, and more, but how many knew the company also delves in microsurgery assistance robots? Not only can this machine automatically switch between tools, but it’s designed for surgeons to operate on extremely small blood vessels and nerves, even those measuring less than 0.04 inches.
You’ve seen DOOM on C64, now check out this AI image generator programmed by Nick Bild for the Commodore 64. How? He basically used modified Python code and then made about 100 retro-inspired sprites (represented as binary strings) to train the model on a modern computer with the modified scripts.
Public transportation in rural communities can be improved upon in many ways, including with projects like MONOCAB-OWL. It consists of autonomous transportation pods that make use of old railway tracks in a manner similar to that of the monorail system.
You’ve seen Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas, now check out Unitree’s G1 humanoid robot. Priced from just $16,000 USD, the G1 can withstand brutal kicks and easily recover, making it perfect for some robotic UFC fights.
Photo credit: WILL KIRK / JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Engineering students from John Hopkins University have developed an innovative silencer for Black & Decker leaf blowers. To start, the team first spent months dissecting the leaf blower piece by piece and analyzing all of its noises and why it makes them.
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter captured a surreal video of the Sun’s ever-changing landscape up close. This transition from the Sun’s lower atmosphere to the much hotter outer corona reveal its hair-like structures, which are actually made of charged gas (plasma), following magnetic field lines emerging from the interior.