Tag: university of California
Tech Digest daily roundup: Sweat used to power medical sensors
Small biofuel cells can harvest enough energy from the sweat on a person’s fingertips to power wearable medical sensors that track health and nutrition – and because our fingertips are one of the sweatiest parts of the body, the sensors could be powered all day. Lu Yin at the University of California, San Diego, and…
‘Ambidextrous’ robot could speed up online ordering
Robotics researchers have created an “ambidextrous” robot capable of learning which type of arm gripper to use when picking up objects, speeding up processing in e-commerce fulfilment centres. A team from the University of California Berkeley created a system that helps a multi-armed robot analyse items it needs to pick up and quickly determine which…
Diego-San: The world's most frightening robot child?
I've become accustomed over the years to pictures of menacing looking robots hitting my inbox. I brace myself, hit the link, and more often than not end up laughing at their hideous Elephant Man-like proportions. But not with Diego-San. He's…
