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This Velociraptor Robot Is Faster Than Usain Bolt!

Boston Dynamics recently unveiled a cheetah robot that was really fast… Now, researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s (KAIST) MSC Lab have Boston Dynamics playing catch up because their new Velociraptor…

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Harvard Granted DARPA Funding for Its Wearable Robot, a “Soft Exosuit”

Conor Walsh, head of the Harvard Biodesign Lab and lead researcher in designing the exosuit, has been granted $3 million in funding from DARPA. The team’s flexible, wearable robot is referred to as a “Soft…

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Meet the King Kong of Gears at 73.5 Tons and 43 Feet High

At the heart of any industrial or manufacturing process are gears. The larger the project, for example, the Three Gorges Dam, the larger the gears need to be. Underlying modern day gears is over a…

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‘Lab on a Chip’ Provides Astronauts a Complete Health Checkup with a Single Drop of Blood

Astronauts on space missions face a number of health risks due to significant adverse effects of long-term weightlessness. Not only this, they also have to rely on self-diagnosis and treatment of their health issues, but…

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NASA’s Mars Rover To Have Memory Reformatted All The Way From Earth!

NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity is over 10 years old and has already surpassed its original estimated lifetime, but its flash memory seems to be messed up because the rover has been resetting itself way more…

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Facebook Drones Expected To Fly For Months or Years & Be The Size of a 747

Facebook announced its plans to deploy internet drones capable of beaming wireless internet access to unconnected parts of the world a few months ago but few details beyond that were released. Now, one of the…

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Solar Powered Auto Rickshaw to Travel 6,000 Miles Across 10 Countries

Big ideas start small. Working out of a small garage in Bangalore, an electrical engineer is promoting solar energy for preserving our planet. Naveen Rabelli, an electrical engineer from Bangalore, India, has built a solar…

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Researchers Achieve Quantum Teleporting

Physicists at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, part of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, have found a way to teleport information using quantum mechanics. Albert Einstein once stated that quantum mechanics doesn’t…

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This 360 Degree Camera From Former Apple Engineers Is Brilliant…

CENTR Camera is a small startup consisting of former Apple engineers who have created an incredible new camera by utilizing smartphone features and a unique design to capture everything going on around us. Through smartphone…

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Major Breakthrough: Desalination Powered by Graphite and Solar Energy

IndustryTap has written extensively about desalination. With worldwide spending on desalination technology expected to hit $16.6 billion by 2016, there is plenty of research and development underway driven by the world’s growing need for fresh…

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