[James] was pursuing a design that used a little robot sitting ... Among many things with this build, we thought it was cool how the robot has one drive motor and turns by spinning up and ...

There are actually more smarts here than you might think, in addition to the stylish and cutesy design. The internal fan inside the Nékojita FuFu robot uses ... creation will cool hot water ...

Cool, a little bizarre ... of what kind of aesthetic potential buyers might gravitate toward. Do you design a "cute" robot? Something that's strictly functional? Or do you aim for realism and ...

High school student designs Pangolin-inspired robot to dig and 'poop' tree seeds: 'The restoration of forests ... is essential' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Thanks to [rhoban], robots you design in OnShape — a popular ... The example quadruped looks like a cool design. Once you have the design in the right format, you can use multiple tools to ...

Yukai Engineering’s parade of weird animal robots at CES 2025 continues with Nékojita FuFu. The little cat mounts to the side of a mug or bowl, blowing air to help cool it off. The Tokyo-based ...

Nékojita FuFu is another unusual robot creation from Yukai Engineering. It’s designed to hang off a mug or sit next to a plate and cool hot drinks and food by blowing on it with varying ...

When a group of researchers asked an AI to design a robot that could walk, it created a "small, squishy and misshapen" thing that walks by spasming when filled with air. The researchers ...

Unlike my real cat, who only ever sneezes in my hot drinks, this little feline robot hangs over the side of your bowl of soup or coffee mug and blows gentle gusts of cool air onto anything you ...

As robots become increasingly common in society, Brigham Young University engineering students are designing them to be more ...