For eight weeks, two groups of students in Los Angeles and Montreal worked together to help a tiny plush robot named Laika reach her spaceship as part of Robot Heart Stories. A team of photographers documented the robot’s journey, fueled by the students’ creative output.

By Mildred I Lewis, originally posted at ARGNet

Image by Mike Hedge and Tiffani Bearup

Lance Weiler’s most recent project began with a simple yet provocative question: can a robot reboot education? To answer that question, Weiler collaborated with fellow Workbook Project contributor Janine Saunders in creating Robot Heart Stories...

NEW YORK — Apple Friday opened its fifth store in New York City, in a grand space above the Great Hall at Grand Central Terminal.

Apple unveilings are always crowded affairs — and this was no exception. Masses of people crammed up the double stairwell to the balcony retail space to see what Apple had done this time. Apple’s flagship 5th Avenue store is already the top-selling chain store in the United States and always seems crowded. But this 23,000-square-foot location could rival any other for foot traffic: Pick your “busy” cliché, and it probably invokes Grand Central Terminal, through...