www.youtube.com/watch Robot combat has been around for nearly two decades since the formation of Robot Wars in San Francisco back in the early 90s. Since then, a myriad of worldwide robot competitions and television shows have invited engineers ...
CAT B15 prototype "rugged" phone (via MWC & CAT) Those working or playing in a rugged environment need their equipment able to handle anything in those rough areas might provide, like dropping equipment onto hard surfaces, bad weather and t...
Zombiebot (via Wowwee) Shooting is great. Whether its target practice with a rubber band or playing Battlefield 3, heck I’ll shoot someone with spitball and have a good time. WowWee has come up with a good toy to satisfy that killing instinct th...
Mothbot testing rig (via iop) Autonomous robots are being utilized more and more as an advantageous, technological solution to problems that may keep people out of harm’s way - either that or keeping us more productive (some may say lazy) by hav...
The human teaches the robot tasks to be handled. (via MIT) Good teamwork is hard to come by - especially when you’re dealing with a group of substantially diverse individuals consisting of both humans and machines. That may soon change. As...
NailDisplay prototype (via http://www.cmlab.csie.ntu.edu.tw) Remember the scene in Total Recall (the Schwarzenegger version) where the receptionist at the Recall center changes the color of her fingernails just by touching them? That, and more, ...
www.youtube.com/watch As if it were news, 3D printing continues to revolutionize the maker world by providing DIYers with in-home manufacturing capabilities like never before. We’ve already seen plans to print an entire Mobius strip inspired bui...
CloudRobot render (via https://www.facebook.com/cloudrobot) Introducing first, from the red corner, rated as the best pound for pound toy boxing game of the last century, hailing from the Marx Toy Company... Rock’em Sock’em Robot! And in the blu...
Height comparison (via Harvard) Soft robots (flexible) have several methods of locomotion that includes walking, crawling and rolling but now researchers from Harvard and Cornell University have added another method that involves small explosion...
Lumapad prototype (via Lumapad Kickstarter) Lights! Camera! Action! Whenever you are capturing anything on camera, lighting is essential to get the right shots. They can create daylight in a dark studio but the right light can cost a pretty penn...
WR-3 Oppressor Robot (via Takanishi Lab/Waseda University) The life of a lab rat is not something that is typically admired by many. Constantly under the harassment of scientists attempting to recreate human models for testing, mice and rats liv...
TDRS-K satellite concept and real-world build (via NASA) Technology inevitably becomes obsolete over time and either becomes limited in its functionality or incompatible with new upgrades. NASA’s aging communications system is suffering with suc...
Robovie in class, Higashihikari Elementary School Robots are no strangers to the classroom. In the last decade, we have seen them being used as teachers (KIST Engkey in 19 schools in Daegu South Korea) or adapted for use as telepresence devices...
www.youtube.com/watch (Edited by Cabe Atwell) I have been looking for ways to incorporate engineering in my 6th grade Earth Science class. We created a weather balloon using laytex balloons earlier in the year, but I wanted something ...
If you thought cleaning your touchscreen devices could not get any easier, think again! Takara Tomy has recently unveiled a new gadget that will keep your smartphone and tablet’s LCD screen clean so you do not have to. Back i...
(Left) BeiDou logo (Right) Proposed coverage (via wiki) The global positioning system (GPS) commonly used around the world by civilians and industries alike is a system owned and maintained by the United States government. It was developed in 19...
Halley VI in action (via Hugh Burghton Architects & British Antarctic Survey) February 5th, 2013 marked the grand opening of the newly designed Halley VI Antarctic research station. For years, scientists that chose to endure year-long resear...
(via gliterrosa) The internet’s ability to connect individuals across the globe has made incredible advancements to the transmission of information at near light-speed. This ability to quickly send data seamlessly across large distances has grea...
(Left) CSIRO autonomous surveillance bot (Right) A Gorilla found it, pokes the camera. (via CSIRO) By now, you should have had the chance to catch at least an animal life documentary or two either on the TV or on your favorite online streaming s...
https://vimeo.com/45770037 First, it started with LA Gears and both children and adults showing off their hip, new light-up sneakers with every step they took. Then came Heelys, combining the functionality of your everyday shoe with the ability ...
Regolith Advanced Surface Systems Operations Robot - RASSOR Excavator (via NASA) The majority of robots are designed to ‘serve’ in some form or another, but very few are able to do it on other celestial bodies other than Earth. NASA’s Mars rover...
www.youtube.com/watch Not all drones are scary. Parrot, the French company specializing in wireless devices for mobile phones, has once again made its way into the ever-expanding drone market. The AR Drone 2.0, introduced at the recent Consumer ...
Mini-RoboMach concept in a "hybrid configuratin," with "free-hex" and "snake-arm." (via Mechatronics) The automation of machining tools ranges in application from something as simple as remotely drilling a hole to a more complex task of assembli...
BattroBorg 20 set of two and the arena, individual bot on the right. (via TOMY co) Japanese manufacturer, TOMY Company, Ltd. is set to bring their little BattroBorg 20 robots to United States for sale. Although the robots are very small, they ca...
If you need to make a robot perform a certain task, all you have to do is look to the natural world. Most likely, it has already made something similar, then your task is only to replicate. That’s the name of the game for students working at UC Berke...
