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Month: April 2016

Mighty microbots

Robotics researchers have come up with some remarkable things, like this self-steering drone. Now a group from Stanford University has created 1-inch microbots, called μTugs (pronounced “micro-Tugs”) that can move some really big things. The researchers started by creating a

Alison April 19, 2016February 15, 2024 Inspired inventions Read more

Alison’s Adventures: Close encounters of the reptilian kind

I had a close encounter with (captive) wildlife not long ago, when my family visited the Wild Discovery Room at the Crane Festival in Kearney, NE. There were all kinds of great critters there, including eight or nine raptors (owls,

Alison April 5, 2016February 15, 2024 Alison's Adventures, Awesome Animals, Nature Read more
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