Emily, for Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, is a new life guard robot on Malibu beaches, ready to replace Pamela Anderson. The company Hydronalix specializes in marine robotics and is the manufacturer of it. This life guard robot is able to swim and save people from drowning 6 times fas…
The video is not recent but it is worth watching. This LEGO Mindstorms NXT walks all by itself on two legs like a human being, a little like Petman by Boston Dynamics. It shows once again that with LEGO Mindstorms you can do anything, or almost. Over to your screwdriver and bolts! :-) http://ww…
Here's a terminator police robot that could scare those who want to speed off and try to escape the police. For the moment, it's just an idea. This auto-moto is halfway between Robocop and a beetle. The idea: unmanned inside (so safer), it chases fugitives. It's an idea of Carl Archambault's,…
We've just received in the RobotShop store the Fez Domino microcontroller by GHI Electronics. FEZ stands for "Freaking Easy." It's a microcontroller which can be programmed in Microsoft .NET Micro Framework and is compatible with Arduino Duemilanove shields. One of the differences with Arduino …
Pierre Dupont's team at Boston University is in the process of developing a surgical robot which could be maneuvered in veins whilst also being harder than a catheter. The new technology called a "concentric tube robot" would have the flexibility of a catheter and the stiffness of a needle. The t…
