2023-12-21 06:30:00 Was your horse injured? Don’t panic, RoboCob is taking over! The rural university of Scotland unveiled this robot on December 15 capable of simulating three equestrian disciplines: dressage, show jumping and cross-country, an event consisting of overcoming fixed obstacles on natural terrain. With him, no more manure smells, no more time spent grooming … Read more
2023-12-18 06:30:00 It is a greatly improved humanoid robot that Tesla presented in a video published on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday December 13. More agile, more flexible, faster but also more aesthetic, Optimus Gen 2 succeeds Optimus Gen 1, revealed in March 2023 and Optimus, its prototype unveiled in September 2022. The machine can … Read more
2023-12-15 06:30:00 If he were human, Hound would be called Usain Bolt. The name of this robot dog designed by the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology will appear in the next Guinness Book of Records because it is the quadrupedal automaton having traveled a distance of 100 meters the fastest. With a time … Read more
2023-12-14 06:30:00 Why could only humans benefit from technological progress, and in particular virtual reality? This is the question asked by American researchers from Northwestern University, in Illinois (United States). To observe how the mice they study react to a certain environment or a specific situation, they made them virtual reality glasses! Because experiments usually … Read more
2023-11-27 06:30:00 619,000. This is the number of deaths caused by malaria in 2021 according to the World Health Organization. If the number of cases recorded (247 million that same year) is decreasing thanks to insecticides, it is better not to relax efforts, because the mosquitoes, which transmit this potentially fatal disease, are starting to … Read more
2023-11-23 06:30:00 An electric pedal car without chain or belt designed to drive both in the city and on the highway, all on three wheels. If it seems far-fetched, this concept straight out of the brain of Pierre Francis, the CEO of the Annecy company Cixi, must indeed see the light of day in 2026. … Read more
2023-11-20 06:30:00 4 a.m. Back from a drunken evening, you finally lie down. You close your eyes and there, everything turns, and nausea invades you. Problem, your alarm goes off in four hours, and you will have to go to work. “Why isn’t there a remedy accessible to everyone to erase the effects of alcohol?” … Read more
2023-11-10 06:30:00 A headset to control your dreams? We think we’re dreaming! And yet, this is what the American start-up Prophetic intends to market in the spring of 2025. Its device, called Halo, consists of a beige-colored ring that is placed around the user’s skull. The goal ? Induce him to have a lucid dream, … Read more