February 19, 2014

February 4, 2014

Robo-Air Blower Makes Ping-Pong Balls Defy Gravity



Automated Manipulation of Spherical Objects
in Three Dimensions Using a Gimbaled Air Jet. Developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Video presented at IROS 2009. For more robot news, visit http://spectrum.ieee.org.

February 1, 2014

Boulder Nearly Destroys Italian Home

A huge boulder unleashed by a landslide in northern Italy narrowly missed a farmhouse, destroyed a barn and came to a stop in vineyards. A second boulder stopped just feet behind the traditional stone farmhouse in the rocky region of Alto-Adige. Nobody was injured in the tumble from mountains overlooking the village of Ronchi di Termeno.