December 7th 2022 Newsletter
Introducing B.E.R.D, new Arduino and restock for Raspberry Pis New Products | Raspberry Pi | Arduino | BBC Micro:Bit | STEM Welcome to this week's newsletter, introducing B.E.R.D a robotic...
Newsletter Articles
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Could robotic dogs be the solution to automated delivery issues?
It's currently CES over in Las Vegas which means that there'll be lots of announcements about new technology some of which will never actually reach consumers and some that will!...
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The Boring Company demonstrates a not so boring tunnel
Last night The Boring Company demonstrated their proposed solution to traffic congestion with their take on underground transportation. The 1.1 mile stretch of tunnel cost around $10 million to...
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Elowan: A Plant-Robot Hybrid
Elowan is a combination of robotics and a living plant, it's a cybernetic plant. The system was created by some researchers from MIT's Media Lab who had the goal of...
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The First Interactive AI Rendered Virtual World
Researchers at NVIDIA recently showcased an interactive world created and rendered using an AI model. They achieved this by combining machine learning and computer graphics to perform image generation using...
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The electrical plane with no moving parts...
Researchers from MIT have achieved flight in their project to create a plane with no moving parts. The small-scale plane has a wingspan of 5 meters and weighs only...
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Cassie - The next generation of bipedal robots
We love our robots but when we first came across Cassie even we were surprised at how well the system could stand and move being a bipedal robot. The above video...
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China Unveil AI News Presenter
The Chinese state-run press agency Xinhua recently debuted their first AI news anchor. They state that it is created from digital models of their human news presenters but other than...
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The Supercomputer With One Million Processors
A supercomputer at Manchester University recently had its 1 millionth processor added. The Spiking Neural Network Architecture which is more commonly known as "SpiNNaker" is a supercomputer which was built...
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The AI Generated Portrait That Sold For Over $400,000
A portrait created using artificial intelligence recently sold for $432,000 when it was auctioned at a New York auction house. The piece entitled Portrait of Edmond Belamy was created by the...
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The Ultimate Paper Plane Resource
Everyone's made a paper aeroplane before and we've all been disappointed when they barely fly. Well, we've found a website that has 40 different paper aeroplane designs each with detailed step...
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The robot that can do Parkour...
Your favourite robotics company Boston Dynamics released an update video for their internet-famous robot "Atlas". The video shows the Atlas running and jumping over obstacles, it even shows it jumping...
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A Portable Wii in a Sweets Tin
The Nintendo Wii was an extremely popular games console, it didn't focus on having the best graphics or computational power but rather being the most fun and engaging. A YouTuber...
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The Self Solving Rubik's Cube!
A Japanese YouTube creator recently created a self-solving Rubik's Cube which can solve the popular puzzle in under a minute. The hardware used in the system is a 3D printed structure...
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