Photo credit: Ruochen Hou et al. / RoMeLa, UCLA / New AtlasOld Android phones sitting unused in drawers can now serve as the central brains for a compact walking robot that stands about nineteen inches tall and weighs under four pounds. Researchers at UCLA’s Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory built PhoneBot as an open-source platform that […]
Amirhossein Kazemipour, Hehui Zheng, and Robert Katzschmann of ETH Zurich’s Soft Robotics Lab began with a commercial WUJI right hand with five fingers designed for grabbing. They put a Raspberry Pi, an IMU, and a battery to its back, resulting in a package weighing 818 grams and operating without a cable. Twenty powered joints remained […]
Manchester United made it ‘easy’ for Manchester City in the derby, says Jaap Stam (Picture: Getty) Jaap Stam took aim at Bruno Fernandes, Marcus Rashford, Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha following Manchester United’s 1-0 loss to Manchester City, accusing Michael Carrick’s front four of refusing to track back. Erling Haaland’s highly controversial 60th-minute strike proved […]