Fun Innovations Friday

Highlights

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Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Has a Cool New Role: Powering Vermont’s Grid
June 6, 2025
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream waste is now generating renewable energy for Vermont’s grid, thanks to a new facility from PurposeEnergy.
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May 30, 2025
Clone Alpha, the latest humanoid robot from Clone Robotics, blurs the line between machine and human with disturbingly lifelike movement and anatomy.
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Infrared Contact Lenses Turn Eyes Into Night Vision Sensors—No Power Required
May 23, 2025
Developed by researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China, these infrared-enabled contact lenses convert heat into visible light—offering hands-free thermal...
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AI-Powered RVs and Shape-Shifting Trailers: The Future of Housing?
May 16, 2025
LG and AC Future are reimagining mobile living with AI-powered RVs and expanding smart trailers that blur the line between home and vehicle. Could this be the future of affordable...
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This Week in Robots: Cheap Androids, Firefighting Dogs, and Clever Knitting Machines
May 9, 2025
These bots don’t just walk and talk—they spray flames, assemble puzzles, and stitch with style.
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Fun Innovations Friday: Light-Absorbing Material Turns Any Object Into Solar Panel
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IIT VERO Vacuum Robot
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July 19, 2024
ProovStation has found a use for AI in the car rental industry, making a frustrating process more transparent and worry-free.
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July 12, 2024
FMAP combines 3D printing and lasers to create multimaterial, multilayered sensors and circuit boards, even going as far as printing sensors embedded within a structure.
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TOKUFASTbot solving a Rubix cube
July 5, 2024
A Guinness World Record has been awarded to an engineering team from Mitsubishi Electric Corporation for creating a robot that can solve a puzzle cube in just 0.3 seconds— demonstrating...
Fun Innovations Friday: Robot Can Be Your Body-Double With Just 40 Hours of Learning
June 28, 2024
Researchers from Stanford University have created a robot that can essentially be your clone by learning and mimicking your movements.
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