www.youtube.com/watch As a generous charity for a fundraiser, one brave soul has volunteered to have his head shaved by a robot with three arms (looks similar to Dr. Octopus' extra arms from Spider-Man). The robot is a Multi-Armed Unmanned Groun...
www.youtube.com/watch Robots have been designed to do just about everything from serving food to bomb defusing, but they don’t typically have the free-range movement that humans do when it comes to navigating uneven terrain. Take climbing a moun...
www.youtube.com/watch Building projects with microcontrollers (especially Arduinos as of late) opens minds to an unlimited amount of innovations. Whether the projects are created for fun, or to serve specific purposes, they can always motivate o...
www.youtube.com/watch The Takashimiya department store in Japan decided a great promotion would be a lifelike female android mannequin seducing potential shoppers in their store window. Since its introduction, the bot has done nothing but ...
www.youtube.com/watch A group of researchers from Cornell Creative Machine Labs are currently developing an autonomous robot inspired from metabolisms of biological organisms. The goal is to be able to break down larger complex structures into s...
(via USPTO) Toyota, along with the Illinois Institute of Technology, are innovating on an age-old device, the walking cane. This new version resembles the function of a Segway. With a six-axis accelerometer, it can sense if the user is falling f...
www.youtube.com/watch Many robots have been designed for the benefit of mankind taking over continuously repetitive tasks or in some cases battling other robots for entertainment purposes. However, recently experiments have been done that may al...
The days of the old RC car are certainly fading, especially when you see the RC helicopters and quad-copters showing no constraint to the ground. Like many other RC toys, three new controllable vehicles from Swann allow control via iDevices (iP...
Nano-quads (via KMEL Robotics) Kmel Robotics may have one of the best promotions for their future flagship product, the mini quad-copter, via a collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Lab. The demonstration shows a series of sy...
www.youtube.com/watch Berthold Bauml would be to blame for with the downtrodden servatude of robots, or the impending robot uprising. He is the lead scientist in real-time dynamic motion planning at DLR. He developed a new advanced humanoid robo...
www.youtube.com/watch University of Albany's robot in action It was proven in 1997 that a computer’s computational abilities could outsmart a human when super-computer Deep Blue beat professional chess player Gary Kasparov at his own game. ...
(Right) HOVIS bot. (Via Robotshop) (Left) A less advance HOVIS. Beware Android’s apps are COMING ALIVE! A South Korean company, Dasarobot, invented a HOVIS humanoid robot. The HOVIS can only be compatibility with any 3.5-inch Android...
TI has hit a homerun with the $4.30 TI Launchpad. This low-cost, professional, easy to use tool gives the beginner everything he/sheneeds to get up and running in the world of microcontrollers and robotics. EMGRobotics MSP430G2553 Ro...
(Nov 2011) www.youtube.com/watch iZac does not care how attractive you are so do not even attempt to “woohoo” this bartender. iZac is an electrifying machine, the Android Bartender! The barbot was created by Nick Johnson; who wa...
This low-cost hack ($44.30 including the cost of the Hexbug spider) converts the remote control toy into a C programmable autonomous robot with a IR range sensor "eye" and a TI MSP430G2231 16bit brain. After this hack the robot will be ab...
The Nao Robot, part of the MyRobot connected site (Via Nao) A social network for robots has gone live. MyRobots.com hopes to connect bots and smart web-enabled objects together in a type of "cloud robotics." The goal is to augment devices capabi...
www.youtube.com/watch In this new digital world, young people now grow up playing video games and surfing the Internet instead of playing games outside; clearly play dates are changing. Canadian company EZ-Robot wants to lead the way this new ge...
Babyloid (via Robonable) The applications of robots as solutions to different psychological problems are just now being explored. A recent project in Japan is currently working to find robotic solutions to mental ailments suffered by its elderly...
www.youtube.com/watch Imitating nature is never easy. Even its most simple processes can prove to be very hard for scientists and engineers to duplicate. But nature seems to provide Kåre Halvorsen, a Norwegian engineer, with a lot of inspi...
Roboden and slacked electric cable comparison. (via Diginfo) From the Japanese company, Asahi Kasei Fibers, comes Roboden, the world's first elastic "electric/data/USB" cable. The company manufactures the famous Spandex material; it is only fitt...
www.youtube.com/watch "Woah, I'm ready to recognize myself." - Qbo, a robot In a mission to make a robot that could "self-recognize himself autonomously when found in front of [a] mirror," Francisco Paz created "Qbo." The bot is set up wit...
Prison robot guard render. (Via ETRI) At the eastern most reach of the Iksan-Pohang Expressway sits a city of half a million people along the coast. There, criminals will face a new kind of prison guard, a 5' (150 cm) tall robot. Three of these ...
www.youtube.com/watch If hydraulics can be a locomotion option for robots, why not balloons, it is the same concept. Or so thought the engineers at Otherlab. Their 15 foot long inflatable Ant-Roach was using its inflatable appendages is the same...
www.youtube.com/watch You would never think a stuffed animal robot would stop you from kicking whoever is making that horrendous sound aka snoring, but Japan made that happen. A pillow that is shaped as a polar bear not only is cute to look at b...
Hacking the OWI535 Robot ARM Using RobotSee, the TI Launchpad,and the EMGRobotics Six Pack Boosterby Eric Gregori (www.EMGRobotics.com) You can download all the firmware and RobotSee code used in this article from here:www.robotsee.com/Lau...
