UPenn’s TitanArm provides robotic exoskeleton lifting power for industrial and medical uses at an affordable price. (via UPENN) Out of a total of four submissions to the Intel sponsored Cornell Cup competition, the University of Pennsylvan...
(left) 19 year old Romanian high school student develops a low cost self-driving car technology (Right) that may soon make a standard self-driving feature feasible for automakers. (Pics via Ionut Budisteanu, MSN, and Azcentral.com) Shortly after...
Handibot prototype renders (via ShopBot Tools) It has been recently argued that the Neanderthals were able to make versatile multi-tools blades by delivering precise blows to a rock. Tens of thousands of years later, homo sapiens are still attem...
The WeatherSignal app concept GUI. (via OpenSignal) As smartphones continue to be upgraded with an increasingly larger set of data harvesting sensors, the use of such vastly available localized data naturally becomes a significant factor in the ...
Like a futuristic fossil, MIT's Cheetah bot seeks to replicate the real thing (via MIT) Speed and power are not everything. A team at MIT’s Biomimetics Robotics Lab is showing that huge improvements in the function of a quadruped robot can be ma...
Linkbots in action (via Borobo & kickstarter) Designing, creating, and programming robots is no easy task and can take years to accomplish and that’s just for companies that can sink a few million dollars into those R&D projects. For tho...
Lovotics robot in an interaction. The bot is a dome shaped bot with a handful of sensors, battery, and wheels for movement. Very lovable. (via Lovotics) The level of attachment between a human and a machine can only go so far. Although some peop...
Yale’s GRAB LAB focuses on the design of grasping & manipulation robotic systems for a wide range of practical applications. It’s most recent design, designed alongside Harvard and iRobot, was accepted into DARPA’s ARM program. (via DARPA) D...
www.youtube.com/watchFrom strt to finish. X2Jiggy shows how his controller is built. Worth a watch for the great 8-bit tune. (via x2Jiggy) Since the emergence of smart phones and development boards such as the Raspberry Pi, there has been an inc...
Victor Mateevitsi using the SpiderSense tech at UIC (via VMateevitsi & Lance Long) It is no doubt that emerging technologies are now beginning to introduce sensory enhancing devices that drastically change the way humans perceive the world a...
Concept diagram. The idea is to reconstruct what is inside the building based on heat signitures. (via Dr. Pietro Ferraro) Imaging technology has grown in its capability of capturing stunning, real-life quality scenes through the recording of li...
System concept block-diagram (via MIT) If robots will ever serve humans--or take over the world--they are going to have to be able to build their own tools and furniture... like a table. A duo of bots coordinated by software developed by Ross Kn...
Meet Shuntaro-kun: the robotic foot-odor sniffing dog that cuddles up to nice smelling feet and passes out in the presence of BO. (via Asahi) When natural disasters strike an area close to home, it’s likely common for engineers and technol...
There have been plenty of previous attempts to build robots capable of climbing up challenging vertical environments. Of these, the most impressive thus far used tiny hairs called setae on their footpads to adhere to surfaces. These hairs mimic a gec...
The vague concept from DARPA Most of today’s robots need some type of programming in order to carry out their intended tasks or functions. This applies to autonomous as well, even those with learning capabilities such as Robot Consortium’s iCub ...
PanaCast camera module (via Aurangzeb Khan) The days in which you can make faces at your boss during a conference call may be nearing an end. A new device, called the PanaCast made by Altia Systems, is offering HD video with a 200-degree field o...
The Leap Motion Controller hardware & software allows users to interact with their personal computers with a flick of a wrist. (via Leap Motion)The Leap Motion device offers consumers a revolutionary way to immediately add motion-control capabili...
Considering lighting is responsible for almost a quarter of the world’s energy usage, (the US alone uses around 200 TW of electricity for lighting annually), further rise in the efficiency and efficacy of light bulbs is very impressive to me. Phillip...
The Synergy Swan bot’s Android-powered interface smiles and can react to human presence in addition to its remote telepresence operation (via R.BOT) With advances in both smartphone & tablet capabilities and in-home robotics solutions, the i...
(via Bolt) Producing innovative software takes a lot of technical knowledge, but not much more than a program running on a PC due to the wide support community that has developed online. This type of innovation can be very lucrative but many tim...
BotZee prototype (via pocketlint) Although tablets and smartphones already make for some great toys, very young users could have a hard time getting into them. So the company WowWee has made a little companion to help youngins, 3 y.o. or older, ...
i-limb ultra Revolutionn (via Touch Bionics) Prosthetics that can be controlled by our wireless devices just makes sense in a world full of iPhones. The company Touch Bionics offers an active prosthetic that does exactly this. The iLimb Ultra ha...
EKSO Bionics exoskeleton promo image (via EKSO) In the Marvel universe, multi-billionaire Tony Stark receives a life-threatening chest wound and designs a crude exoskeleton that both saves his life and lets him escape his captors - who wanted hi...
German company Festo is one of the world's leading providers of pneumatic and electrical automation technology. Specializing in factory automation, tasks and services created from their products rotate, grip, position, connect, test, check,...
