Over the past five years or so, heavy metal music has gone in a completely new direction. Not with the music mind you, but rather with band members who are neither male nor female but robots. Yes there are numerous robotic musicians breaking into the...
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology’s Gimball drone (via EPFL)Drones, or more formally UAVs, are usually controlled either by a remote operator skilled at flying them or are flown autonomously using software to program a series of waypoints. Of cou...
Handie prothetic hand made with 3D printing technology – via James Dyson Foundation The Maker Faire, dubbed the “Greatest Show and Tell on Earth,” took Tokyo by storm this week, bringing together makers of monsters, rock bank robots and prosthet...
Play-i Bo and Yana toy robots (via Play-i) Gone are the days when children played with simple toys to learn new skills. These have since been replaced by mobile devices (children’s tablets) and electronic handheld games. But while the future wil...
SenseFly’s eBee drone, mapping surfaces? The future... (via SenseFly) Drones have proven themselves highly proficient when it comes to combat operations and surveillance platforms over the last few decades, but they have since proven themselves ...
Willow Garage is a company known mostly for its robotic hardware and open source software. Their most famous project has been the PR2 Robot. Although this was a highly advanced robot, the price and size of the bot was a little too much for most compa...
M-Block robot. Angular momentum move it around... genius! See the blocks jump into place, you will agree. (via MIT) It began in 2011 when MIT senior John Romanishin presented his idea for self-assembling robots. “It can't be done,” is the respon...
https://vimeo.com/71168301 You would think a large insect-shaped robot would be a little creepy for children and parents. However, the insect inspired robot, Dash, is actually the complete opposite. It’s small, fun, fast, cute, and cheap. Built ...
IIT’s robotic plant system. Tech mimics life... making better machines based on the tried and true (via IIT & Plantoid Project) Robots come in many forms, which are based on the functions they perform. There are robotic arms used in manufact...
Trackdot device render. (via trackdot) Bob was nervous and excited at the same time and he had good reason to be. He’s in line to be promoted to the head of operations at his tech company’s headquarters in Singapore and is set to deliver a speec...
Engineered Arts’ Robothespian robot. (via Robothespian) Comedians know all too well how hard it can be to be successful when playing to an audience. Being funny is tough and many people simply can’t make the cut even when they thought their joke...
Georgia Institute of Technology’s pressure sensor. (via Georgia Institute of Technology) We interact with pressure sensors almost on a daily basis, especially when shopping for products, as using a credit or debit card requires signing a p...
QBotix Solbot R-225 robotic farm hand. Turns the solar panels as needed... (via QBotix) Solar parks or PV farms are on the rise as more countries are adopting renewable energy alternatives to fossil fuels. In order to generate a significant amou...
BrewBit Model-T (via kickstarter) No one actually knows just how many different kinds of beer there is all over the globe, however some of the more modest estimates put that number at well over 20,000. (I made my own beer once, “Dos Cabes,” so ...
NeverWet makes for a water-resistant surface. It isn't a miracle. (via Rust-Oleum) Man has endeavored to waterproof things since the first rainfall. A few hundred years ago, pitch and tar were applied to protect a boat’s hull and the roofs of ho...
(via Kibo Robot Project) Sending robots into space is nothing new as NASA sent up their Robonaut 2 to the ISS back in February of 2011. The robot’s primary function is to conduct repairs either autonomously or by remote control via personnel on ...
www.youtube.com/watch While 3D printing dominates the news lately, not much is heard about the venerable CNC machines anymore. In fact, CNC machines haven't changed much. Workers will design what they need on a computer and then bring the materi...
FragWrap robot from the UbiLab at Keio University Robots are fast becoming a normal part of our daily lives with most programmed to perform a routine function of one kind or another. We now have robots that can assemble automobiles or work on an...
Aireal demonstrating a haptic feedback event (via Disney) Gamers have been using haptic feedback game-pads since Nintendo released the Rumble Pak for its N64 controller back in 1997. After its initial launch, almost every other mainstream consol...
(a) Two Alice robots facing each other, with (left) and without (right) the additional module for light detection. (b) Three Alice robots pursuing a light trail. (c) Typical time course of an experiment with three loops (access to a fourth loop that ...
Concept art for the "On-Demand Satellite" from Darpa (via DARPA) DARPA is currently talking with contractors to produce disposable satellites to assist in military operations planning. The program is called SeeMe (Space Enabled Effects for Milit...
Planon ScanStick SK600, for all your spy needs. (via Planon) Companies and businesses are consistently trying to reduce costs when it comes to just about everything, but more so when it comes to office supplies. Factoring paper alone, the US run...
The Ampli-tie in action. (via adafruit) Adafruit Industries, founded in 2005, has been supplying the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) community with the necessary components and parts for projects of all skill levels since Limor “Ladyada” Fried began her ve...
Patent concept block-diagram. Right most image shows how the RFID tag will be embedded into the pages. (via USPTO #8403232) RFID tags certainly don’t seem to have anything to do with delicious food. But soon, the technology may come in handy whe...
