Category: Technology news

23 January, 2015

First car made with 3D printer

In a previous post we talked about using 3D printers to print choclate and now, in this article I share a story that I found surfing the web. In this case the first car made with a 3D printer, a car that is capable of transporting 2 people and can develop a speed of 40km per hour. But where is this first car made with 3D printer? […]

10 October, 2014

paper robot able to transform and move

Is not an easy job to make a robot‘s ability to move freely, there are complex movements that are a challenge for engineers and there is much research and a lot of money behind as ASIMO robot built by Honda, this robot has behind him years of research and its designers have added it moves year after year, but there are other types of robots that […]

19 September, 2014

Organs on chips

The title sounds really impressive, but it is a reality, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering associated with the Harvard Medical School have developed a series of cell culture devices with computer memory size of the tip of pencil. These devices contain channels and voids covered by tissue cells that mimic the physiology of a human body. These devices produce a level of functionality […]

18 September, 2014

Super soldiers with robotic suit

So far we had seen different science fiction movies in which a common soldier could become a super soldier using only a special outfit or getting into a robotic skeleton that increased his strength. Well, apparently this kind of science fiction suits jump from  films to real life. According to research by the WYSS Institute  of Harvard and under a contract awarded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) […]

7 September, 2014

small Robot rides hoverbike

A plastic Robot,  printed in a 3D printer, with a camera on his head, shoots his ride on hoverbike flying over fields of grains in England.   But, why a robot riding a hoverbike? An image that is common to see in science fiction movies, is now a test of 1.2 meters wide, which is the third part of the real prototype of an HoverBike designed for […]

31 August, 2014

Google testing drones to deliver items

The fashion of the “drones” grows day after day, there are many tests that are being advanced worldwide in the field of unmanned vehicles for different purposes and applications, lately we have heard rumors to use drones for distribution of merchandise or objects, as in the case of Amazon, some time ago started a rumor to use drones for the delivery of items sold through its online store, […]