Photo credit: Gerhard Bliedung | ETH ZurichKaren Antorveza Paez finished her doctorate at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich after years spent turning a known bacterial process into finished architectural pieces. Certain living bacteria called Sporosarcina pasteurii can lock loose grains of sand together by growing microscopic crystals of calcium carbonate between them, the […]
Four small propellers sit over a single spring leg, and the pair turns a quadcopter into a machine that travels the way a pogo stick does. Researchers at the University of Toronto’s CLIMB Lab send it up with rotor thrust, then let a passive telescopic leg take the landing and hand that energy back as […]
DEEP Robotics sent its Lynx M20 into a stretch of red desert in early September and the machine kept moving across loose sand and rising slopes that usually stall ordinary wheeled platforms. Footage released as “Conquering the Red Desert” shows the compact wheel-legged quadruped rolling on firmer patches, then lifting individual limbs and shifting its […]