Sep
06
The Office of Naval Research has given a team from Northeastern University $600,000 to develop micro-robots to find underwater mines. Professor Joesph Ayers directs the program. Over the last seven years, the synthetic biologist has become famous for designing the RoboLobster and RoboLamprey — autonomous underwater robots that mimic the neurophysiology and behavior of their …
Feb
18
The Russians want to build a gas pipeline through the Baltic Sea. There’s just one little problem: There’s still over 150,000 unexploded WW2 bombs in that sea. Enter the robots. pic nicked from here Bactec Int. has been contracted to clear the Baltic Sea of the 70 mines that block the pipeline. “When the robot …
Although Ryan Oakley began his career as a simple rake (drunk) he has since become Toronto’s most renowned flaneur (no car) and notorious dandy (overdresses). A misanthropic composer of psycho-geographical fictions (sci-fi), he is also a server of food, a tender of bar and a washer of dishes. While performing all these functions with efficiency and elegance (disdain and malice), he somehow finds the time to publicly criticize friends, strangers and cultural crap.
