www.youtube.com/watch The TI Launchpad based robot walker is based on the Lynxmotion BRAT Jr. walking robot kit. You can buildthis whole robot for less than $120.00.The TI launchpad can be used to control up to 5 servoswith 16bit acc...
www.youtube.com/watch Scientists at MIT’s Chembots program have just introduced a self-contained, self-propelling robot. The gimmick of this bot is to house its power cell and locomotion mechanism all in it structural housing.&...
www.youtube.com/watch Have you ever heard of anyone making the comment that one day, “Robots taking over the world!” It is a bit of a cliche, but not far from the truth, in a way. In this case they are not taking over the world, but they are cha...
Example of the type of ground robot being controlled by the new system.This is an i-Robot SUGV As we prepare for wars fought with robots, it is comforting to know that at least half of the people fighting will be safe at home. The US army's Long...
www.youtube.com/watchLatest PETMAN from Boston Dynamics From the creators of BigDog and AlphaDog comes the most advanced humanoid robot to date, the Protection Ensemble Test Mannequin (PETMAN). This bot is designed to move with the same li...
Photograph of the University of Glasgow's Round Reading Room These days, pretty much everyone owns a smart phone. The cameras found on these phones have helpful tools that allow anyone to take a descent picture. However, there are still so...
www.youtube.com/watch If the future is all about robots, will there be robot bugs? UC Berkeley has created and designed a “bot," if you will, that may be the first of the bug infestation, named Clash. This little guy is 10 centimeter...
www.youtube.com/watch Sometimes we cannot even spare 5 minutes to read an article, let alone 10 to watch a video. Here is the article's highlight:● Tim Hemmes, a paralyzed volunteer, was able to move a robotic arm via electrodes directly c...
https://vimeo.com/30255067 RED cameras are widely known to have changed the film industry due to their high level of quality for an extremely low price. The price, $7,000 for the cheapest model, has enabled many independent film makers to produc...
www.youtube.com/watchAlphaDog prototype (via Boston Dynamics) The BigDog quadruped robotics platform from Boston Dynamics, has been upsized. The new bot, named AlphaDog, can now carry 400 lbs (181kg) for a distance of 20 miles (32km), in contras...
www.youtube.com/watchVideo and picture via University of Maryland From the collaboration between the University of Maryland and the Army Research Laboratory comes the micro jumping robot. Each type at a length of 4mm, can store enough kinetic en...
www.youtube.com/watch Available on September 30th, 2011, Gibson Guitar Corp will be offering their Firebird X is a limited 1,800 sets of each color. The guitar is a modern version of the 1960s classic Gibson Firebird. Onboard are built in effect...
www.youtube.com/watch Robotic male crabs try to impress a real female crab in a new study. PhD candidate Sophia Callander of the Australia National University, Australia, set up robotic crab claws around a real living female. In the experiment, ...
players.brightcove.net/.../index.html The next gen robots are coming; the next gen robots are coming... for over 10 years now. The robot, "Cog," was based on the hypothesis that human-level intelligence requires gaining experience from...
Making things happen by themselves is easier said than done.To enable a robot to perform tasks as a result of acquiring its own inputs involves a wide variety of complementary disciplines including EE, Mechanical Engineering (ME), Computer Engineerin...
www.youtube.com/watch The Panasonic Evolta robot is to, ironically, take on the Ironman Triathlon in Hawaii. It is not a big deal for the Evolta; it has already conquered climbing out of the Grand Canyon and walked 500km from Tokyo to Kyoto. The...
www.youtube.com/watch There are some products that are on the verge of great, but miss the mark somehow. I feel the new ROBOCUT mower/worker bot from McConnel may just fit into that category. This bot is at its core a 40hp Isuzu engine with peri...
players.brightcove.net/.../index.htmlPictures and video via Carnegie Mellon Univerity Look up in the air! Is that a kite? No it's the Miniature Jumping & Gliding Robot from Carnegie Mellon University. This miniature robot jum...
Dr. Octopus to the rescue! Coming soon from Penn State University science department....The amazing Micro-Spider Bots: Why are they amazing you might ask? Inventor Ayusman Sen hopes to attach the spider bots to other nanobots to perform tasks within ...
Prototype SkyNET bot. (via SIT) Look out America SkyNET is real. Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT) scientists built a WiFi hunter-killer drone! SkyNET is a marriage of a Parrot A.R. Drone and a Linux box. A Parrot A.R. Drone is hardly ...
www.youtube.com/watch Disney's Pixar's iconic lamp? No, it is ArduinoArts' SM-1, the "annoying IKEA lamp," a finalist entry for SeeedStudio's Grove Toy Kit contest. It really has done an amazing job re-creating the look and action of Pixar's lam...
www.youtube.com/watch People like good natured rivalry. Have a design competition and see how many challenges are over come. At this year's Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines in Paris, Fran...
Rob Spence lost his eye in a shooting accident as a child. Later on in life he had his eye socket molded to see how much space was available. Spence’s friend, a former engineer at SpaceX Kosta Grammatis, helped develop a camera system that could fit ...
