Here's a very special robotics development: Its 4 independent robots but which are capable of regrouping together to move and even fly off. Invented at the Swiss Federal Institute, these robots can communicate amongst themselves and know precisely their positions in relation to each other. Once…
The Laboratory of the Institute of Advanced Technology of Chiba in Japan is showing many videos of their prototypes on Youtube. There you can find a strange giant spider which transports a man sitting, a robotic mini crab as well as a flying butterfly species. It's exciting to discover: http:/…
Belvedere the Buttlerbot is a DIY robot based on the iRobot Create platform (Roomba base). It was made by a robotics enthusiast for his family and mainly for his son, Ethan (dancing in the photo above). Belvedare can avoid obstacles, serves food and drinks, talks, tells jokes and plays music. …
Qbo by The Corpora, an open source robot project that we told you about recently now has its own video channel on Youtube. An address to remember: http://www.youtube.com/user/QboRobot As a reminder, the Qbo by Francisco Paz aims to bring artificial intelligence to the home. http://www.youtube.…
This robotic quadruplet has certainly attracted attention at the Robo-One competition. Four robots attached to each other were the clowns and entertained the audience there. It's rare to see a robot be funny but it's pretty refreshing to watch. Here are the four Kondo humanoid robots. When did …
