Globetrotting: Rocking robots

A robot carrying food to customers in a restaurant in Kunshan. It’s more teatime than Terminator — a restaurant in China is electrifying customers by using more than a dozen robots to cook and deliver food A robot carrying food to customers in a restaurant in Kunshan. It’s more teatime than Terminator — a restaurant in China is electrifying customers by using more than a dozen robots to cook and deliver food
This photo courtesy Seth Kroll, Wyss Institute, shows the self-folding crawling robot in three stages. Inspired by the traditional Japanese art form of Origami or “folding paper”, researchers have developed a way to coax flat sheets of composite materials to self-fold into complex robots that crawl and turn. This photo courtesy Seth Kroll, Wyss Institute, shows the self-folding crawling robot in three stages. Inspired by the traditional Japanese art form of Origami or “folding paper”, researchers have developed a way to coax flat sheets of composite materials to self-fold into complex robots that crawl and turn. Photos: AFP





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