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- VertiGo – A Wall-Climbing Robot including Ground-Wall Transition https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/vertigo/ 29 comments
- Jobless Due to Trade? Robots? AI? Why America Needs ‘Just Transitions’ http://prospect.org/article/jobless-due-trade-robots-ai-why-america-needs-%E2%80%98just-transitions%E2%80%99 7 comments politics
- Money for nothing: The good and the bad of a guaranteed government paycheck - Musk and Zuckerberg say UBI could help transition workers who lose their jobs to robots. UBI opponents warn the controversial idea violates the work ethic and could even make poverty worse. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/30/universal-basic-income-may-be-humane-or-a-3-trillion-dollar-black-hole.html 6 comments technology
- Engineers at Harvard University have designed the first 3D-printed, autonomous robot that transitions from a rigid body to a soft one which can jump. Powered by a mix of butane and oxygen, it can jump more than 20 times its own height, yet land upright. http://rt.com/news/272806-soft-3rd-printed-jumping-robot/ 19 comments technology
- DARPA picks 14 vendors for lunar economy-building study - Technologies being explored include "lunar power; mining and commercial in-situ resource utilization; communications, navigation, and timing; transit, mobility, and logistics; and construction and robotics," according to DARPA. https://breakingdefense.com/2023/12/darpa-picks-14-vendors-for-lunar-economy-building-study/ 2 comments futurology
- We’ve figured out the basics of a shape-shifting, T-1000-style material | A pack of small robots can do liquid/solid transitions and adopt different shapes. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/weve-figured-out-the-basics-of-a-shape-shifting-t-1000-style-material/ 18 comments technews