Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Wall-Climbing Robot Shelves to Keep You Organized

IEEE Spectrum: I don’t know about you, but being stuck at home during the pandemic made me realize two things. Thing the first: My entire life is disorganized. And thing the second: Organizing my life, and then keeping organized, is a…

Real driverless cars are now legal in Shenzhen, China’s tech hub

TechCrunch: There are plenty of autonomous driving vehicles testing on the roads of Shenzhen today: Pony.ai, Baidu, DeepRoute, AutoX, you name it. But these vehicles are not really the unmanned vehicles that tech upstarts envision for the future, as they…

Necrobotics: Dead Spiders Reincarnated as Robot Grippers

IEEE Spectrum: Bugs have long taunted roboticists with how utterly incredible they are. Astonishingly mobile, amazingly efficient, super robust, and in some cases, literally dirt cheap. But making a robot that’s an insect equivalent is extremely hard—so hard that it’s frequently…

Scientists Engineer Glove Inspired by Octopus Tentacles

Discover Magazine: If you’ve ever held a fish, you know that people are terrible at grabbing wet, slippery surfaces. In fact, some scientists think that our fingers get pruney just to manipulate objects underwater. In a new study, researchers invented a…