Hasta La Gadget!

Google today acquired Boston Dynamics, one of the worlds foremost developers of advanced robotics. This marks the eighth robotics company Google’s purchased in six months, and a clear indication that the search giant has some very significant plans. Hopefully, those don’t involve world conquest.

Tekla Labs and Instructables have teamed up to present the Build My Lab
Contest, where they are hoping for brilliant DIY’ers to create helpful
lab equipment that real scientists can use, as well as creative “Lab
Hacks” to make their jobs easier. You know you want that Dremel Kit!

MIT is at it again. This time, researchers have developed something known as an "M-Block." Basically, they’re tiny magnetic cubes that can move on their own and permanently stick together. In other words…they’re the first step towards self-constructing robots.

Awesome, right? 

Most of us already went through the (horrible) experience of noticing a scratch in our car’s paint. Whether we hit a wall opening our door, inadvertently got a scratch by passing to close to a tree’s branch, or someone bad intentioned made a scratch on purpose, it always feels bad – specially cause it looks bad. Fortunately, an innovation made by a Brazilian Institute is likely to put an end to this issue.

The USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture last week announced that it will be offering $4.5 million in grants towards research of robotics in American agriculture What this basically means is simple: in the near future, we’re going to start seeing robots on the range.