www.youtube.com/watch Robots have already beat humans in chess, and at the University of Tokyo, Ishikawa Oku has developed a robot that will always win at rock paper scissors (or “janken” in Japan). It achieves a 100% winning rate by analyz...
HOAP-3 robot (via Beziers Technology Institute) OK, so maybe student Tirosh Shapira, from Bar-Ilan University in Israel, isn’t really a Jedi, but computer scientists from the international VERE (Virtual Embodiment and Robotic Re-embodiment) grou...
Georgia Tech road repair in action Repairing America’s roads is extremely time consuming and makes those of us not repairing them seethe with anger as roads are usually partially blocked off which backs up traffic making us late for work and rui...
Thereminist robot (via Kyoto University) Robots have been playing music for a while now on their own, but getting them to play in tune with humans is a feat in itself. The newest robotic member of the band plays one of the weirdest instruments o...
BatBot in flight (via Polytechnic University of Madrid) As much as humans have come to dominate the sky, there is one variant to flight that we have not been able to replicate, and that is flight by flapping wings. This is the most common way of...
www.youtube.com/watch A tear-jerking introduction of the technology A cerebrally controlled robotic system is being developed by a team of researchers from Brown University, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and a host ...
Deboning system (via Georgia Tech) Deboning poultry can certainly be a time consuming/messy process, and if you’re like me, fingers get cut during the endeavor. It’s always better to leave that job to a qualified butcher-robot. Yes, you read tha...
Robonaut 2, the first humanoid robot in space, was sent to the International Space Station with the intention of eventually taking over tasks too dangerous or mundane for astronauts, (see "Robonaut 2 on the ISS") and the first such task identif...
www.youtube.com/watch Have you ever wanted to go somewhere with friends (like a show or club) but everyone is too busy or unable to go with you? Well now they can, thanks to a robotic shoulder-mounted avatar that not only lets a friend come with...
www.youtube.com/watch Human beings make tools. Animals make tools. A tool gives an advantage over adversity and guarantees survival. Will the same happen if a robot makes a tool? Researchers at ETH Zurich are on a mission to not only ...
USB connected interactive plant (via AkihabaraNews & Keio University) If the Japanese have not already created enough unusual devices, they have one more invention to add to their list. Researchers from Keio University have created plants th...
www.youtube.com/watch The United States already has the most powerful army on the planet. However, to them, that is not enough. Recently they have been looking for proposals to develop a new smart ammo feed system. Sandia National Laboratories h...
www.youtube.com/watch As I am sure your mother told you, dogs are a huge responsibility to take care of, and if you don’t have the time, chances are you do not have the energy. But, this does not deter many people from getting dogs anyways. For ...
(Left) Burritob0t platform (Right) The bot does not print the tortilla, unfortunately (via Marko Manriquez) Robots have been showing their love for making food over the past few years like Suzomo’s SushiBot which can pump out thousands of the ta...
Arduino robot used for promotion of RobotC (via RoboMatter) Robotics and software coding can be daunting to a beginner, but software company RoboMatter works diligently to make these fields accessible to beginners and hobbyist. Their software is...
In a move that is likely to be replicated by many companies in the coming decades, Japanese company Canon announced they will completely automate the manufacturing of cameras. Jan Misumi, company spokesman, made the announcement this month, that in t...
www.youtube.com/watchwww.youtube.com/watch My childhood dream is almost a reality, a real life Transformer. Designed by Kenji Ishida and JS Robotics, the bot houses 22 servos to perform the transformation. In robot form it is based on the widely...
www.youtube.com/watch Wilfried Stoll and an engineering team from Festo in Germany have designed a robot that can compose and perform its own music after ‘listening’ to a melody. The robotic system, called Sound Machines 2.0, simulates two violi...
(Left) Egestion Vessel for the EcoBot III (Right) Sludge and water distributor for EcoBot III (via Bristol Robotics Laboratory) Robots are not only difficult to design and build, but they are also a challenge to handle after a proje...
Concept of the crybot (via Stone Aerospace) Exploring other planetary bodies is both costly and risky for human explorers. While money is a big factor in celestial exploration, the time and resources it takes for a human to travel extraplanetary...
Iowa State University's Bridge Engineering Center student Justin Dahlberg get out in the filed to install sensors on US Highway 65/Oak Street bridge (via Iowa State University) Since the sudden collapse of the I-35W Mississippi River Bridge in M...
www.youtube.com/watch Military mechanics are part of the unsung heroes of our (US) armed forces. Ask anyone who either served or is currently serving over-seas (or at home for that matter) and they’ll tell you ‘Murphy’ is usually in full effect ...
Anyone working in a manufacturing plant knows the horrible feeling when the person responsible for equipment calibration comes around looking at calibration stickers. More than once I've found myself trying to plead for an extra week, saying “I...
Equipment designed for an industrial environment must recover from ESD events and be immune to magnetic coupling from motors and wires carrying current transients. In ESD testing, every connector port and accessible surface is shocked wit...
Hi all, I was going through my normal websites checking for updates and found this link to online technical books.They are listing old documents that are no longer covered by copyright laws and they have some very good old classics on the evolut...
