Researchers at Harvard University and Tokyo University have developed an algorithm for designing expandable, collapsible 3D lattice structures using scissored joints and rod linkages — inspired by origami and kirigami but based on a fundamentally different design principle.
Engineer Sophia Tung recreated Nintendo’s fictional boombox bike using a wooden MDF body, an 84-volt battery system, and a custom-built electric drivetrain.
Canadian startup Sami Robotics is taking its multi-arm harvesting platform, SAMI, from broccoli to romaine lettuce, a crop still cut almost entirely by hand. The machine runs 12 to 18 robotic arms in parallel, uses AI and machine vision to pick only the heads that are ready, and