This robot can build anything you ask for out of blocks 🦾⬜️ Alexander Htet Kyaw at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues have developed a robot that can assemble building blocks called voxels to build an object with almost any shape you ask it for.The system first takes a person’s spoken request, transcribes it to text and then converts it into a 3D model using an AI trained on a vast database of pictures from the internet. A computer-aided design program then converts th

Students in South Korea have developed a robot snake that could one day be used in search and rescue missions. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout vists DGIST in Daegu for a close encounter. | CNN

RoboBall to the rescue?! Scientists at Texas A&M are building a futuristic spherical robot to tackle the moon’s toughest terrain and help with disaster rescue on Earth. The RoboBall is designed to go where wheels and legs can’t. Powered by a swinging pendulum inside, it rolls in any direction and never tips over. The robot could aid disaster zones, mapping floods and finding survivors. | cheddar news