ICYMI: The balloon bot that can actually stand upright

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Today on In Case You Missed It: A scientist at UCLA’s Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory is experimenting with a way to get around the fact that robots have a difficult time with maintaining a high center of gravity, aka they always fall down; so he’s built something that looks like a balloon on stick insect legs. It’s still very much a prototype but perhaps the idea will remain in future walking bots. Meanwhile Scientists at SLAC came up with a way to spot photosynthesis in real life, at room temperature, using an X-ray laser. Previous tests had always relied on freezing leaves to track it.
If you’re getting your projects in order for the coming weekend, we recommend the DIY fire tornado. If you’re looking for the Rubix Cube solving bot, that’s here. As always, please share any interesting tech or science videos you find by using the #ICYMI hashtag on Twitter for @mskerryd.
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