Qualcomm partnered with Techstars in 2015 to launch a 16 week, 10 team Robotics Accelerator boasting an eclectic collection of ideas ripe for commercialization. Some projects stand alone as consumer products for lifestyle and entertainment, but many fit into puzzles of emerging infrastructure models from drone systems to medical applications. The convergence of these ideas in the near future is as exciting as the individual groups alone. Reach Robotics teaches young people

Festo is a German engineering firm specializing in automation and manufacturing technology- an industry seeing more integration with artificial intelligence and robotics. They've been recently promoting bionic prototypes borrowing form and function from nature. These inventions illustrate how nature's efficiencies can be successfully adapted with advanced networking, intelligence and materials. Most of these are not immediately implementable solutions; rather they serve as

A team of engineers at General Electric are developing a chemical sensor which mimics the scales on a Morpho butterfly wing . Researchers were studying tiny structures of the wing's scales, which capture chemical molecules in their ridges. These lodged molecules bend light, creating the iridescent effect we all know. The question of how this happens, and what nano-mechanisms were at work to cause it, initially sparked the motivation to dig deeper. Upon realizing this molecul