Hasta La Gadget!

Space may be the final frontier, but it seems that it is
mostly going to be explored by robots, at least for the time being. Some of you
may be aware of the Curiosity rover. Curiosity is currently on the surface of
the planet Mars, but what you may not know is that the rover is coming up on a
very big anniversary.

One new
robot R2B2, or Robotic Reconfigurable Button Basher is the forfront of the new computer hacking, by allowing a robot to make brute force attacks to smart phones. It isn’t much to look at, the
main componet is a set of robotic fingertips that actually do the key
entering. The robot has, thus far, been used to hack into Android phones
with a fair rate of success.

A team of
researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have created the world
first light up robot skin. The robot works with a simple
touch. When the skin is pressed it glows. The system has been dubbed eSkin and
it users a series of organic light-emitting diodes to generate the light.

The da Vinci surgical system robot has gotten a lot of hype in the
recent past. It has been used to help famous athletes repair damage done to
their body from their job related injuries. But those issues are not without their risks. The company that makes
the da Vinci surgical system, Intuitive Surgical, is coming under fire for a
few concerns around the system.

When it comes to building a robot how young is too young? A class of primary
school children at Princeton Friends School, which is based in the city of Princeton,
New Jersey, is doing just that. The kids, as young as the age of 11, are building bots with 3D printers.