HotSpot 165 – Tethered Drone Gives Military Round-the-Clock Surveillance
This week on WDD’s HotSpot: Robot Gets a Job at a Pizza Place Visitors to a Pizza Hut in Asia will soon be able to place an order, ask about nutrition, and pay for their meal without ever speaking to a human. Instead, customers will interact with SoftBank’s Pepper, a robot said to be able…
Engineering Update #162: Using Drones to Detect Sharks
Welcome to the engineering update. In this week’s video: Using Drones to Detect Sharks Scientists from Duke University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill are looking into how drones can be used to detect bonnethead sharks that tend to hang out in the shallow waters. A Wearable Breathalyzer The wrist-worn BACtrack Skyn pairs with…