MyRobots.com - Connect your Robots, Reap the benefits Breaking news, MyRobots.com is live and running! MyRobots.com aims to connect all robots and intelligent devices to the Internet. In doing so, we augment their capabilities enabling them to be remotely monitored and controlled. We strive to mak…
Quad-Rotor Building Tower "Intelligent" quad-rotor robots are quite capable and never cease to amaze. We saw them doing aggressive aerial manoeuvres in the past, but this time it seems the quad-rotors are through showing-off their reckless flying and are moving on to more constructive ende
MyRobots.com Starts The Final Countdown Today the MyRobots.com team added a countdown timer on their website signalling the imminent launch of their new Cloud Robotics Service. After months of planning, design and implementation, the highly anticipated BETA launch of MyRobots.com is scheduled fo…
New ASIMO from Honda Robotics Running Honda Robotics released a new version of ASIMO which is much faster and much more agile than its predecessors. The new ASIMO, is capable of running much faster, has dexterous hands and can even jump on one foot. This robot is clearly the most advanced human
PETMAN has to be the most physically capable humanoid robot in terms of flexibility, range of motion and robustness. It has been developed by Boston Dynamics, the same people who created BigDog, and is intended to tryout military equipment. Check out this video in order to see the robot, walk, move…
Robotiq Adaptive Gripper The Robotiq adaptive gripper, is a gorgeous heavy-duty dexterous hand for industrial manipulation and research. As you can see in the video below, it can manipulate objects of various sizes and shapes without issue. This type of robot is used in research and in i
The recently released Deus Ex: Human Revolution video game is raising some very interesting questions regarding Cyborgs, bionic implants (or augmentations as they are referred to in the game). The documentary below explores the similarities between the fictitious augmentations and the cu
iRobot has been working for some time now on an inexpensive (relatively speaking) military robot that would allow soldiers to explore hard-to-reach areas without risking their lives. You can see the results of their efforts in the video below, the iRobot 110 throwable robot. http://www.youtube.c
What happens when a 14 year old Formula 1 enthusiast emails Mercedes-Benz asking for a contribution for a new 58 000 $ bionic arm? If Matthew James (from Woking , UK) serves as a reference: he gets it. Matthew was born missing part of his left arm and hand and is now the owner of a very advance
Swarmanoid Swarm robotics -using several simple collaborating robots to accomplish very complex tasks, instead of using a single very complex robot- is becoming increasingly popular. The Swarmanoid project is a perfect example of what can be achieved by using a swarm of small robots. As
The August issue of National Geographic magazine features a fascinating article on robots, find it on newsstands July 26th 2011. In "Making Robots Human," the author Chris Carroll explores the world of robotics, and the advances in technology that allow robots to speak, blink, smile and perform
Jedi Bot is a robot arm wielding a foam "lightsaber" that will try to attack or defend itself from human opponents. This system used the Kinect in order to track its opponent and was put together by students from Stanford. Of course, this is not the first robot wielding a lightsaber, but
PR2 from Willow Garage is now able to help people with disabilities to perform everyday tasks such as manipulating objects shaving and more. The video below illustrates the scope and the results of the Robots for Humanity project that Willow Garage, the Healthcare Robotics Lab at Georgia Tech,
In previous posts, we reported on the aggressive quad-rotors from the University of Pennsylvania which are capable of doing amazing things quite effortlessly. Achieving such impressive results required a lot of hard work, testing and trial-and-error. The video below focuses on the "error" part
The Fit Bot by fits.me started as a human male-shaped robot that would adjust to a man's body size in order to test fit clothes when buying at on-line retailers. Now, they developed a female version of the robot that can don ladies' clothes in a "prettier"way. Fits Me Robot Detail As shown in t
Thomas Nierhoff, a masters student at the Technische Universität München (TUM) programmed a humanoid robot to play pool. Of course we have seen PR2 play pool in the past but this robot does not need any special accessories to hold the pool cue. As shown in the video below, the robot can be very ac
