9.5K views · 227 reactions | Engineers at Georgia Tech have developed this solar-powered, energy-conserving robot inspired by a sloth, and they hope it will be used to help save the planet. The hyper-efficient SlothBot moves only when it absolutely must to measure and analyze long-term environmental changes. -- c.gatech.edu/2XsaAWx | Georgia Tech | Facebook

Georgia Tech researchers have developed the first-ever human scale robot that can return a tennis shot. 🎾 High-res cameras and computer vision algorithms allow the robot, assembled using a specialized tennis wheelchair, to track down the ball and hit it back to a human player. It's named ESTHER (Experimental Sports Tennis Robot) after the legendary wheelchair tennis athlete Esther Vergeer who was undefeated in singles for ten straight years. -- https://c.gatech.edu/3OtzoaD | Georgia Tech