ROBOfluence

🛸 With the International Space Station’s advancement, NASA felt the need for robots to assist their astronauts aboard. For this, NASA developed a free-flying robotic system- the Astrobee Robot.

🛸 The system consists of three robots— Honey, Queen, and Bumble and a docking station for recharging the robots. It is a significant step towards optimizing human work-time in space and advanced exploration to future space missions.

🤳 Researchers Create a Low-cost Inflatable Robotic Hand That Senses Touch.

🤳 MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s engineers designed a soft, lightweight, Inflatable Robotic Hand to facilitate amputees to do several highly complex activities like shaking hands and petting a cat. Their work and research have been published in Nature Biomedical Engineering, a journal for engineers, researchers, and clinicians to understand diseases or improve human health.