German automotive supplier Mahle has been hard at work on next-gen electric drive systems, and it's also been exploring other critical components to help make vehicular electrification a more viable reality. At September's IAA Transportation show, it revealed a thermal management fan that borrows…| New Atlas
Today's drone navigation technology at night can drastically improve by replicating the dung beetles navigation techniques.| TechAcute
Patterns in nature repeat on each and every scale, and we can mimic them in our designs.| Free Permaculture
For years, Boston Dynamics has been working on “changing your idea of what robots can do.” Their quadruped robot Spot has gone through quite the transformation from what I would consider the stuff of sci-fi horror to what can now only be called lovable. Meanwhile, Atlas is becoming more and more humanoid every day, able to balance on one leg, jump and spin 360º in the air, and even do a shoulder roll. I’m not going to make a judgment call on whether or not Boston Dynamics’ robots wi...| Taylor C. Bailey
According to Japanese robotics firm TMSUK, there's currently a shortage of sewer-inspection workers in that country. The company has therefore set out to streamline the workload for existing workers, by developing a sewage-pipe-inspecting robotic spider.| New Atlas