It will have taken one year, 4 people and 30 000 dollars worth of LEGO to achieve this giant robotic chess game. 100 000 LEGO and NXT pieces have been used here to carry out this project. The giant chessboard measures about 16 m2, or 4 meters by 4 meters. There are 3 game modes: human against …
RobotErectus is a robot prototype of a soccer player which seems visibly ready for the soccer World Cup in South Africa :-) It shoots the ball, it can even pick the ball up from off the ground and throw it in, it jumps, it can move to the side and it can even bow to the crowd (surely after it's sc…
Japan has just unveiled two new humanoid robot prototypes, M3-Kindy and Noby. -M3-Kindy is a 5 year old android weighing 27 kg with 42 degrees of freedom. The M3-Kindy robotic child is packed with sensors: more than 109 in total (including video camera eyes). It was developed with the aim of stu…
Myon is a new humanoid robot designed by the industrial design studio, Frackenpohl Poulheim (in Cologne), and developed by the Neurorobotics Research Laboratory at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. The size of a 12 year old, Myon has the special ability to continue to operate even if some …
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.…
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…
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…
CTC (Concurrent Technologies Corporation) has won a contract worth 46 million dollars from the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane (NSWC Crane) (United States). The project aims to develop land robotics systems which will eventually be able to save the lives of American soldiers in combat. The m…
Here's a fish robot that can lead an entire school of fish. Researchers at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University has managed to create a robotic fish capable of displaying leadership and being the leader in a school of fish by using mathematics and artificial intelligence. One possib…
An incredible demonstration by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States: a monkey managed to move an articulated robotic arm by using only its mind. The use of control by the mind with sensors in the brain is not a world first, but it still has an effect. All the more so i…
How do you say hello with a customized LEGO robot? It's what this B3ta forum user has done. Built from scratch, the DIY Lego printer has been connected to an Apple Mac. The creator wishes to clarify that this has nothing to do with Mindstorms and that he built it all by himself with electronic…
The German Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics has run some experiments on man-machine collisions. Here, it's rather a case of a Kuku robotic arm against a mannequin head (the same as those you see in car crash-tests). This type of experiment enables the development of anti-collision and safet…
The robot, Seaglider by iRobot, is now in the process of working in the collection of data in the Gulf of Mexico, in the ecological disaster zone caused by the BP oil leak. Its main mission, says iRobot, is to pinpoint the oil slicks. The project is led in collaboration with the Department of…
Popsci has an interesting development in humanoid robots which can help people with autism to improve their daily lives with social interactions and communication in general. "Bandit" is a robot prototype designed to interact with autistic children. It is fitted with two video cameras in the ey…
