Video Friday: Digger Finger

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): ICRA 2021 – May 30-June 5, 2021 – [Online Event] RoboCup…

How Nanotech Can Foil Counterfeiters

University of Florida Tiny mechanical resonators produced the same way microchips are made [bottom] can serve to authenticate various goods. Being less than 1 micrometer across and transparent, these tags are essentially invisible. What’s the largest criminal enterprise in the world? Narcotics? Gambling? Human trafficking? Nope. The biggest racket is…

Can a Robot Be Arrested? Hold a Patent? Pay Income Taxes?

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