(via i-LIMB) Building on being the first in the world to release a prosthetic finger solution with articulating digits in 2009, Touch Bionics has announced a new i-limb digits technology available to partial hand amputees. Historically, it is mo...
Human Support Robot (via Toyota) The Japanese Govt. recently passed a law that requires their public healthcare to pay 90% of the cost for robot assistance technology. This means that Toyota’s Human Service Robot (HSR) stands a chance at eventua...
MANO under maintenance (via UVIC) In the 1850’s, the latest technology drove Sir John Franklin and his crew to their desolate, frozen death as they hoped to find a new route across the Arctic Ocean. 160 years later, the University of Victoria is...
Baxter (via Rethink Robotics) Rethink Robotics has recently unveiled their contribution to the world of robotics and its name is Baxter. The Boston-based company states that the manufacturing robot is not only adaptable to its industrial environ...
(via Veterans Affairs Medical Center) What a day we are living in. Science has done much for able-bodied people, but it has done seemingly miraculous things for disable people, as demonstrated by a double amputee being able to run a race at the ...
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and his robotic double, respectively in both pictures (via Hiroshi Ishiguro) Following the structure of nature, we strive to build and create as we were built and created. In computational robotics, the Holy Grail is a...
Nexi with its creators (via Northeastern University) Nexi, MIT’s MDS or mobile, dexterous, social robot, was unveiled in 2008, becoming a hit on youtube due to its strikingly realistic human facial expressions. Now, Nexi is being put to work by ...
www.youtube.com/watch Boston Dynamics has given us some astonishing animal-inspired bots like the BigDog and PetMan. Here comes another DARPA-funded animal bot, part of their Maximum Mobility and Manipulation program. This one replicates a cheet...
Double in action (via Double Robotics) If you are like me, visiting the L’Ouvre in Paris or the National Mall in D.C. is just not feasible, mostly due to the lack of funds. Soon, all I may need to do to catch a glimpse of such places will ...
players.brightcove.net/.../index.html With the rise of the internet came an increase in the exchange of product details. Open source products give us their designs and promote free redistribution throughout the community. Some examples, of great...
Performer operating a Fembot (via Culture Japan & Tokyo's Robot Restaurant) It comes as no surprise that robots play a prominent part in the Japanese industry and just about every facet of the culture, but now they’ve moved into Tokyo’s ‘red...
www.youtube.com/watch People have been making do-it-yourself robots for quite a while now, but they usually consist of metal and plastic of some kind and most require circuit boards along with in-depth programming to get them to function. Appare...
Robotic Board Eraser (via YinYang Robotics) To my professors, it was always annoying when the previous class left the board full of writing. For the students, it was always annoying trying to take notes and struggling to hear, as the professor f...
www.youtube.com/watch If "making a better mousetrap" isn't on the mind of engineers, we will never see innovation. This is a perfect example. Robert Howe and his team from Harvard's BioRobotics laboratory have been working on a different a...
Hi all, I got a notice from the Chibots group about this new book on robots and I was lucky enough to find it at one of my local libraries. As the title suggests, this book is about mobile robots and is intended to be a textbook for undergr...
NAO (via Aldebaran Robotics) Carnegie Mellon University’s Computer Science department is set to roll-out the celluloid carpet once again for this year’s (2012) Robot Hall of Fame inductees. The prestigious University started the Robot Hall of Fa...
How Shimi may look, Holiday 2013 (via Tovbot.com) When it comes to music, I always welcome new recommendations and a buddy to dance along to new music beside me. Unfortunately, this does not happen very often. But a team at the Center for Music ...
players.brightcove.net/.../index.html This next invention may reflect the laziness of the current consumer, but it is a testament to the diligence of Japanese inventor Modder FRP. He has used the Kinect camera in a simple creation that robotizes...
RUTH testung the chair surface (via Ford) In an effort to provide potential customers with a level of comfort specifically centered on personal preference, Ford has hired a type of robotic comfort contraption called RUTH to deliver us from the ‘...
www.youtube.com/watch From pleasing to frightening, robots built to imitate humans can be creepy, very creepy. In fact, according to the “uncanny valley principle” the more lifelike robots become to humans, without exactly replicating them, the ...
Constructable - What the system can do (via Hasso Platner Institute) Have you ever wanted to plan, design and construct a project while using just one system over all the various tool we deal with now? That is precisely what a group of engineers...
Mobot (cia UC Davis) Until recently, robots have been designed as a learning tool for either classroom-based or lab-based with only a few people having access to them. This is changing with the introduction of the modular robot known as ‘Mobot’....
I'm always happy to say it: maintenance people are the ones who keep the world turning. This isn't worth noting because their job is fundamentally harder than other jobs. It's not because they do something that others cannot. It's because...
Kickstarter brings the world so many technological innovations. Here is another: Robotic arms can come in handy and with a hefty price tag. Certainly a robotic crane for picking up dirty laundry or shooting an intriguing angle for a ...
