Robots
Perching SCAMP Robot Can Climb Straight Up Walls ieee
SCAMP is the first robot to combine flying, perching with passive attachment technology, and climbing. It can also recover from climbing failures, as well as take off when it’s ready to fly again. It does all of this outdoors, using only onboard sensing and computation, leveraging lessons from all our previous climbing robots, our recent work in perching, and mother nature.
includes an interesting video
Carl’s Jr CEO wants to replace all human workers with robots foxnews
What’s interesting - and perhaps prophetic - about this one is the following sentence:
If the minimum wage is raised, argues Puzder, more companies like CKE foods which owns Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr will look to automate faster— which could further decimate jobs.
Tech
Camera Captures Temperature Images at 1,000 Frames Per Second industrytap
...the FLIR X6900sc is a new thermal camera, equipped with advanced triggering and precise camera synchronization, making it ideal for all types of everyday applications that encompass high speed events, from ballistics testing to fireworks research and development.
This is nothing like the trillion frames/sec camera (MIT’s Super-Fast Camera Can Capture Light as it Travels), but still cool.
Domino's Pizza unveils world's first autonomous delivery vehicle zdnet
Speaking in Brisbane on Thursday night, Domino's CEO and Managing Director Don Meij said that DRU had already successfully performed a number of customer deliveries in restricted streets in Brisbane under a special permit given by the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads.
The claim it’s the first, but I sent a link last month with another (Hanging out with the adorable Starship delivery robot). But they are excited about it, and this one is closer to being actually used.
SKYE aerotain
Company product page - scroll down for videos. Does anyone else find it slightly disturbing that there’s a giant eye version, hovering in the sky, watching people? :D
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