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Cockroach-Inspired Robot Survives 8-Story Fall, Will Outlive Us All

DASH, a UC Berkeley-designed, cockroach-inspired robot, manages to take what makes cockroaches so resilient and even retain the cockroach’s singularly creepy movement. This thing is near-indestructible. The 10-cm long DASH, which stands for Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod, weighs only 16 grams, yet is able to run 15 times its body length per second. It has…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Oct 16

Video of the Remote-Control Flying Beetle Would Be Sad If It Wasn’t So Terrifying

When some scientists at Berkeley say they’ve managed to remote-control a Rhinoceros beetle it’s one thing, but a video of the impressive, morbid experiment has a little more impact. https://gizmodo.com/scientists-demo-living-remote-control-flying-cyborg-be-5141750 The first part of the video would seem to show that initial reports of the experiment’s success were overblown—the bug is pretty much just switched…

Tech News John Herrman Feb 10

Scientists Demo Living, Remote-Control Flying Cyborg Beetles

Berkeley University scientists demoed a remote-control Rhinoceros beetle at a conference this week, repeatedly flying the cyborgian creature into observers’ faces while screaming “WE ARE GODS! WE HUNGER FOR BLOOD SACRIFICE! The first part of that, the true part, represents a huge step in the mechanical control of living things. It’s far from the first…

Tech News John Herrman Jan 29

Rube Goldberg Voting Machine Is Irreverent, Thankfully Irrelevant

Well, the election is over! Luckily, it was pretty clear from about two hours in who would be the winner this time around , so even if there were a couple of iffy voting hijinks, it wouldn’t be anything to take up to the Supreme Court. Still, some post-election voting humor never hurt anybody –…

Tech News Elaine Chow Nov 5

Lighting Review: Berkeley Lamp II – ‘The Only Lamp Designed By Science’

The Gadget: A lamp with two bulbs, both dimmable, that provides a 50% energy savings over incandescent lamps, an extra 120v port on its base to make up for the one it takes up, and a choice of either 5500K daylight bulbs or 3500K sunset bulbs. It’s patented by Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, which is…

Reviews Jason Chen Sep 25

TEAM 0.5 Microsope Takes Closest Look Ever at Graphene, the World’s Strongest Known Material

Graphene is getting a lot of publicity these days. It is being hailed as the future of the electronics industry—the material that will eventually replace silicon. It has also recently been confirmed as the world’s strongest known material. Now, researchers at the Berkeley Lab have thrust graphene into the spotlight once again thanks to the…

Tech News Sean Fallon Sep 10

Berkeley Group Uses iPhone to Control UAV Squadron

The Center for Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles (C3UV—the "3" makes it hip) at the University of California, Berkeley has developed a system that uses the iPhone to develop tasks, set coordinates and send orders to a fleet of UAVs. Naturally, this development is interesting because it allows a single person to control a large…

Tech News Sean Fallon Jun 16

High-Mag Microscope Lets Cellphones Go In Close

If you can’t bring the microbial parasite to the lab, bring the lab to the microbial parasite, goes the thinking of the Berkeley researchers who invented a microscope to attach to cellphones and smartphones, using the phones’ own cameras. The higher powered of their two microscopes delivers 60X magnification, capable of capturing the detail of…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Mar 21

Gecko Tape Could Mean Spider-Man Climbing Suits

A new material relies on millions of tiny plastic fibers that can grip solids as the fabric slides across them, then quickly release those objects when pulled away vertically. The technology is based on the anatomy of a spider’s gecko’s foot, and may be used for things like hanging art on a wall, or wrapping…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Feb 4

Cockroach-Inspired Robot Survives 8-Story Fall, Will Outlive Us All

Video of the Remote-Control Flying Beetle Would Be Sad If It Wasn’t So Terrifying

Scientists Demo Living, Remote-Control Flying Cyborg Beetles

Rube Goldberg Voting Machine Is Irreverent, Thankfully Irrelevant

Lighting Review: Berkeley Lamp II – ‘The Only Lamp Designed By Science’

TEAM 0.5 Microsope Takes Closest Look Ever at Graphene, the World’s Strongest Known Material

Berkeley Group Uses iPhone to Control UAV Squadron

High-Mag Microscope Lets Cellphones Go In Close

Gecko Tape Could Mean Spider-Man Climbing Suits

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