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They flopped at launch, but now they’re in every home. See how early tech misfires like the Virtual Boy and DigiCash became ...
The legacy of the Electrolux Trilobite is oft-duplicated, but with every iteration, we get closer and closer to having a fully automated house helper to clean our whole home.
Odds are that your first domestic robot will be – or already is - a vacuum cleaner. According to the Chinese manufacturer Roborock, we’ve been sharing our homes with robotic cleaning devices for ...
The first robot vacuum cleaner: Trilobite, launched in 1996 The history of robot vacuum cleaners is short, but significant: the most famous robot is probably Roomba of iRobot, dating back to the early ...
A new study finds that a trilobite species with exceptionally well-preserved fossils from upstate New York has an additional set of legs underneath its head. The research, led by the American ...
A volcanic eruption in what’s now Morocco preserved ancient trilobite specimens in nearly pristine condition about half a billion years ago, according to a new study.
A volcanic eruption in what’s now Morocco preserved ancient trilobite specimens in nearly pristine condition about half a billion years ago, according to a new study.
Most trilobite species are no more than 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) long, but some, such as Hungoides bohemicus, grew to be more than 12 inches (30.5 centimeters) long.
The new trilobite fossils are Cambrian in age (around 509 million years old) and preserved as undistorted three-dimensional moulds within fine volcanic ash, not unlike the human bodies entombed at ...
“These trilobite fossils represent the most complete specimens found to date, not only preserving the hard exoskeleton but also the soft parts in 3-D, such as the antennae, walking legs and the ...
Researchers have described some of the best-preserved three-dimensional trilobite fossils ever discovered. The fossils, which are more than 500 million years old, were collected in the High Atlas ...