robots

March 11, 2017

I’ll Have Some Fries with That Automation

Man has long wanted automation in food preparation as seen in this clip from the 1968 movie, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, of a Breakfast Machine. McDonalds held a promotional event in Boston for what they call a “Big Mac ATM”. The machine created 2 different versions of the Big Mac […]
August 1, 2018

Weed Killing Robots

Everybody loves their food to be clean, and ideally organic. The less herbicides (while retaining the quality of the crop) the better! Normally, this would mean that the plants would need an abnormal amount of attention, and the crops would be prohibitively expensive. However, the Swiss company “EcoRobotix” has another […]
September 7, 2018

The Skywalker Hand

Star Wars is the modern-day Odyssey. It has dazzled movie-goers since its initial release. The classic scene where Luke Skywalker loses his hand gave rise to the next scene, where Luke is given an artificial one. His high-tech prosthetic was nearly indiscernible from the real thing. While we don’t have […]