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Handheld Gaming PC

Handheld Gaming PC

By: Jasen Vu

The GPD Win is a handheld device designed to act perform like a gaming PC. It's about the size of a 3ds XL, but it has a full Windows 10 PC inside of it along with a keyboard and an Xbox controller built...

Robot Controlled in Virtual Reality

Robot Controlled in Virtual Reality

By: Jasen Vu

Software created by Brown University computer scientists lets the user take control of robots with virtual reality. The software connects the robot's functions to virtual reality via the internet. You...

Two contact lenses with reflections, isolated on a white background

Glucose Sensing Contact Lens

By: Jasen Vu

Scientists have developed a contact lens that's able to sense the user's blood sugar without the need for a needle. So far it's only been tested on rabbits, which worked, however, it hasn't been tested...

Tiny Robots Programmed to Act Like Insects

Tiny Robots Programmed to Act Like Insects

By: Jasen Vu

A group of Cornell engineers has been developing a new type of programming that acts like that of an insect. To mimic the behavior of an insect would take an entire desktop computer on the robot's back...

Wearable Sensors for Plants

Wearable Sensors for Plants

By: Jasen Vu

A plant scientist at Iowa State University developed very cheap sensors on tape that can be attached to plants to measure the time it takes for two kinds of corn plants to move water from their roots,...

Stingray Inspired Soft Robot

Stingray Inspired Soft Robot

By: Jasen Vu

Bioengineering professor Ali khademhosseni has developed a soft robot that uses the biomechanics of a stingray. The technology could supposedly lead to new advancements in regenerative medicine, bio-inspired...

The Razer Phone

The Razer Phone

By: Jasen Vu

Razer, who is usually known for their laptops and sometimes overpriced gaming accessories, has tried their hand at making a smart phone. The phone is mostly focused on gaming, however it's still good...

The Self-Driving Automatic NXT Adventures: Final

By: Jasen Vu

Our group for the past couple of weeks has planned and created a drink service robot. You can find our posts about this project by searching our hashtag #AutoNXT. Recently, we have finished the development...

The Self-Driving Automatic NXT Adventures: #3

By: Jasen Vu

We did more work on the NXT's coding, specifically the NXT's movement and tried weeding out some bugs. After that we tested it by having it go around the floor and repeated the entire process over until...

Origami Robot

Origami Robot

By: Jasen Vu

A Cave Western Reserve University researcher named Kiju Lee took an ordinary origami tower design into a flexible "origami robot" design named TWISTER. It uses claws on the end to pick up and manipulate...

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