Book Club for Kids
Finding Purpose in "The Wild Robot"
A robot is a machine programmed for a purpose—to perform a human task. But can a robot survive on its own? That’s the existential question in The Wild Robot, by Peter Brown, in which a robotic heroine, Roz, breaks during a tornado and...
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Bend It Like NIST
It may sound like the stuff of science fiction but at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), nanosoccer is serious business.
Science360
Printable Robots Designed To Be Consumer-Friendly, Inexpensive
This project envisions a future where 3-D robotic systems can be produced and designed using 2-D desktop technology fabrication methods. If this feat is achieved, it would be possible for the average person to design, customize and print...
Science360
Cooperative Robots That Learn Less Work For Human Handlers
It is an unusual scientific partnership. With support from the National Science Foundation, Linguist Jeff Heinz and mechanical engineer Bert Tanner are teaching robots about cooperative behavior, by observing how children learn to...
Science360
When Robots Invaded the Senate - Cyber-Physical Systems Demo for Senators and Staff
Scalpels that a surgeon uses to excise small tumors but never actually touches. Robots that can take the place of lab rats in clinical trials. Cars that can drive themselves through busy streets. These were just some of the cutting-edge...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Back To The Moon: Elon Musk speaks at a space conference
After a quiet half a century since the last Apollo mission landed on the moon, Associate Professor Alan Duffy takes us inside the new space race. What are Elon Musk's plans for the moon? What is the space conference like in Adelaide?...
Next Animation Studio
Indian hospital begins using popular surgery robot system
Ambani Hospital in Mumbai has launched a robotic surgical system, known as the Da Vinci system, performing 11 successful surgeries so far. The Da Vinci system is being used to perform complicated surgeries. The robot's precision...
Science360
4 Awesome Discoveries and a Thing You Probably Didn’t Hear About - Episode 40
In this science video: The singing, song-writing robot; privacy advisory; cloud seeding succeeding; safer self-driving; and arming yourself with tentacles. It’s 4 Awesome Discoveries and a Thing You Probably Didn’t Hear About. New...
Science360
ENGINEERING HIGHLY ADAPTABLE ROBOTS REQUIRES NEW TOOLS FOR NEW RULES
Northwestern University Mechanical Engineering professor Todd Murphey and his team are engineering robots that one might say could make robotic assistance as seamless as "humanly" possible. With support from the National Science...
Programming Electronics Academy
How to Assemble the DFRobot Pirate 4WD Mobile Platform
This video walk through assembling the popular DFRobot Pirate. It focuses mostly on what the instruction manual leaves out, which I hope will save you some time!
Next Animation Studio
ITRI Medirobot lifts and moves patients with ease
Medirobot is a collaborative design between Taipei Municipal Yan Ming Home and Pilotfish in Taipei and Munich. Medirobot can transfer patients with limited mobility efficiently without the need of extra equipment. Sensors inside identify...
Pitsco Education
RoboBench TETRIX MAX RangerMAX Bot Activity
We have the need for speed! In this RoboBench, Tim walks through an activity to test and measure speed with the TETRIX MAX Ranger Bot. See how fast your bot can go!
Curated Video
William Jennings Bryan: Flag of an Empire Speech
Former U.S. Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan spoke in Indianapolis back in 1900 on the opposition of Imperialism within America. The speech has since been entitled Flag of an Empire.
Catalyst University
Transaminase Mechanism (Pyruvate Conversion to L-Alanine)
Here we show the organic mechanism of the conversion of pyruvate to L-alanine. This is a pyridoxal phosphate-dependent mechanism that can be applied all transaminase reactions.
NASA
On a Mission: Robots Lend a Hand
Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu is in charge of the InSight mission’s robotic arm and hand. His work on space robots has led him to give a helping hand back home.
Next Animation Studio
Building kills COVID with dozens of hi-tech gadgets
Disinfection robots, thermal body cameras and virus-killing air-con systems — welcome to the Covid-free office of the future. A workplace in Bucharest filled with anti-virus innovations could become the new standard in office design.
Out of this Word
Fool’s Paradise
Max is counting soda bottle caps, when Moon walks in and points out that he’s been drinking a LOT of soda lately. Max says he’s trying to collect 500 to participate in the soda company’s raffle to win the Robo-Captain 4000, a limited...
Curated Video
Will robots replace human workers?
Demand for industrial robots is increasing, so we asked different people to guess how many jobs are held by robots, not humans.
Tarver Academy
ACT PREP - Quadratic Equations
In This Episode, Tyler Teaches Us About ACT PREP - Quadratic Equations
Science360
Robin Murphy talks about her deployment of rescue robots during the 9/11 response in New York City.
Robin Murphy, director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue at Texas A&M University, was on-site at Ground Zero within 24 hours of the attack. She brought along a team of students and colleagues to deploy a cadre of robots...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Blake Copeland - No Limits #BLC15
Blake Copeland, is the founder of RETech, Inc., a student and an iOS Developer, from Dallas, TX. As student who wouldn’t accept no for an answer when the school system wouldn’t (or couldn’t) teach him something, Blake took learning into...
Science360
How soft robots could shape our future
How soft robots could shape our future. This is a Squishy Robot. Researchers at Stanford University and UC Santa Barbara, with funding from the National Science Foundation, have developed this soft robot that combines traditional and...
Curated Video
Neil Armstrong's Space Suit
The story of the A7L Space Suit worn by Neil Armstrong during the Apollo 11 moon landing.
de Dicto
What is COGNITIVE ROBOTICS? Turing Fellow Angelo Cangelosi explains
Angelo Cangelosi is a Professor of Machine Learning and Robotics at the University of Manchester, UK. He created the iCub humanoid robot which is now worth 300,000 £! He explains here the concept of cognitive robotics in a very...