Thursday, 5 February 2015

Meet the robot giving hospitalised children superpowers

The Robots for Good open-source data project is bringing sick and terminally ill children a self-directed, virtual experience of London Zoo


As the co-founder of Wevolver, a web platform that enables users to share and collaborate on open-source hardware projects, Richard Hulskes is used to witnessing the dispersed power of the internet in action.


But with Wevolver’s newest offshoot project, Robots For Good, even he was surprised by the speed and efficiency with which an idea he had just a few months ago has taken shape.


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