On (most) Fridays I post here a roundup of interesting things I’ve read and/or posted on social media since my last roundup, generally stories about emerging technologies, experiential activations, interactive art, advances in scientific research, and other things I find interesting.
Featured Image: Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Images
Lime and other dockless bike companies are gathering masses of location-based information that some cities are leveraging to improve their streets:
Image: LIMEBIKE
Darpa’s new Subterranean Challenge tasks entrants with designing robots to navigate a grueling subterranean course of tunnels and caves, some of the most unforgiving environments on Earth:
Image: By VasGian
MIT’s SkinBot is a palm-sized bipedal robot with suction-cup feet inspired by leeches that can crawl over your body to scan your skin with a microscope:
Image: Artem Dementyev/MIT Media Lab
Researchers at Drexel University have developed a one-step spray-on technique for creating RF antennas made of 2D titanium carbide that could make any object connected:
Image: Drexel University, Kanit Hantanasirisakul
UK company Magway proposes to build a series of hyperloop-like electromagnetic transportation tunnels for moving groceries around the country:
Image: MAGWAY
BrainNet is a “social network” of brains developed at UW in Seattle that allows three people to transmit thoughts to one another’s heads for collaborative problem-solving:
Image: UW / arXiv / Technology Review
Iron Ox is a new autonomous farm in California that wants to produce hydroponic food without human workers:
Image: COURTESY OF IRON OX
Silicon Valley startup HyperloopTT has unveiled the capsule they plan to use on their first hyperloop in Europe:
Image: Cristina Quicler/AFP via Getty Images
Scientists from Harvard’s Wyss Institute have developed a glove-controlled robot arm that’s soft enough not to harm a jellyfish:
Image: Wyss Institute, Harvard’s John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
ETH Zurich and Disney Research have developed an autonomous spray-painting drone that can tag a wall all on its own:
Image: ETH Zurich / Disney Research / TechCrunch
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