Exoskeleton

© Leonardo Finotti + 26 © Leonardo Finotti Text description provided by the architects. GN Chapel follows an important tradition on Brazilian architecture that is the construction of religious buildings on private residences. During the colonial period (es…

2010’s Steel Pencil Design Award winner, the Pangolin by Cyclus takes backpacks to another level. Handmade by Colombian people in need and consisted of recycled tire inner tubes, the backpack is inspired by the pangolin, a mammal that possesses large keratin …

INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INTO BUILDING HILLARY’S EXOSKELETON JUST TOOK AN EXCEEDINGLY STRANGE NEW TURN: ‘Robot tail’ could help reduce risk of falling for elderly, say Japanese scientists. Or, as always, life eventually catches up with P.J. O’Rourke’s satire: …

This remarkable wearable robotic tail has been developed by researchers at Keio University in Japan. While tails for humans have actually been available for years in Japan, these are typically purely cosmetic in nature and worn more for fun than for any appr…

There are lots of companies who make wearable tails for humans, but theyre usually for cosplay or other entertainment pursuits. Researchers at Keio University in Japan have created a wearable animated tail that promises to genuinely augment the wearers capabi…

She plugged the extension for car transportation in the brain-machine interface connectors at the right side of her head, and off she went. The traffic was relatively slow, so there was no need to stop working. She answered a few more emails, then unplugged h…

Arnav Kapur can order a pizza just by thinking it. Want pepperoni on top? No problem — he can make that happen without saying a word or lifting a finger. It probably sounds like something out of science fiction, but it's as real as the Domino's pizza that sh…

Best Travel Duffel Bags Android Central2019 Duffel bags are great! You can pack them with pretty much anything for a long work trip with the boss or a weekend escape with your best buds. What I like about them is that they sit somewhere between a backpack …

Audience members don robot exoskeletons in a performance of Inferno. (photo by Beth LaBerge, courtesy Gray Area Festival) SAN FRANCISCO From the smartphones audiences hold in their hands to the virtual reality headsets artists can use as their primary medium…

Palaeontologists at the Royal Ontario Museum and University of Toronto have uncovered fossils of a large new predatory species in half-a-billion-year-old rocks from Kootenay National Park in the Canadian Rockies. This new species has rake-like claws and a pin…