Bombay Sapphire developed the “Saw This, Made This” campaign with Baz Luhrmann, requesting people to flex their creative inspirations by contributing inspiring images and tagging them in social media. Luhrmann selects those he finds most compelling, and those images are then featured at and reimagined in a series of events featuring Ai-Da, a humanoid robot that creates art by drawing and painting using her robotic …
Slated to board the International Space Station in 2024, MIRA—which stands for Miniaturized In-Vivo Robotic Assistance—is a remote-controlled surgical robot created by Virtual Incision Corporation, a Nebraska-based medical technology company that recently signed a contract with NASA. The robot is purported to perform medical surgeries by being remotely guided from Earth, a service that could provide longterm help aboard deep space missions. MIRA is uniquely …
Researchers at Northwestern University created a crab-shaped robot that is smaller than a flea, measuring just half a millimeter—making it the smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot. The robot can bend, twist, crawl and leap, all without relying on complex hardware. Rather, the micro-robot’s movement utilizes an alloy that can “remember” shape when heated. Researchers point a laser beam at the robot to heat up several targeted …
