MIT’s light-up robot garden teaches you how to code
If you’re teaching kids how to code, what do you do to show that software makes an impact in the real world? MIT has a clever idea: a robot garden. The
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Dutch Windwheel draws energy innovations
The backers of the Dutch Windwheel leave few superlatives behind. The most innovative ‘windmill’ in the world. A showcase for clean technology. Accelerator for renewable energy. A future icon for The Netherlands and future landmark in Europe’s largest port city, Rotterdam. A presence in the architectural …
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ORCA prototype ready for the open ocean
Its name refers to one of the biggest animals in the sea, but ORCA, the Ocean Radiometer for Carbon Assessment instrument, will be observing the smallest.
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Experimental wave-power buoy survives winter in Monterey Bay
In early January 2015, a team of MBARI engineers, led by Andy Hamilton, set out to sea to recover an experimental buoy that creates electrical energy from ocean waves. This power buoy had been deployed six miles southwest of Moss Landing Harbor for 131 days, while the engineers tested the system’s ability …
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Floating wind turbines bring electricity where it’s needed
It’s a balloon that lifts a wind turbine. That’s the easiest way to describe the technology being developed by Altaeros Energies, led by Ben Glass, inventor and CEO of the young company. Glass has reimagined the possibilities of balloon and airship technology to lift a wind turbine.
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Robot cameras monitor deep sea ecosystems
Scientists at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) have used advanced photographic tools in an unmanned Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to make major advancements in estimating deep-sea ecosystem diversity at ‘landscape’ scales.
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Underwater drones map ice algae in Antarctica
New robot technology leads Antarctic exploration into a new epoch. It is now possible to study the underside of sea ice across large distances and explore a world previously restricted to specially trained divers only.
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Maker Club | 3D Printed Robotics for Everyone
A platform & community for 3D Printed robots. Learn how to build, code and design your own from scratch, perfect for makers, tinkerers and young inventors!
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This Cook Stove Cleanly Burns Plastic Bags and Generates Enough Electricity to Charge a Phone
Two young entrepreneurs designed the device to cut deaths from indoor air pollution in the developing world.
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