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…
Japan plans to set out to conquer the moon using robots before 2020. The Japanese space agency, JAXA, intends to put 2.2 billion US dollars on the table to develop a family of robots that will go to explore the moon by 2020. The first Japanese robots should also land on the moon in 2015. They …
The humanoid robot, Asimo, by Honda has stopped by the federal polytechnic school of Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. A member of the audience has reported videos of the Objectif Sciences event (open day at EPFL) which took place on May 29 and 30. You can also see Asimo there center stage walking …
Here's a prototype of an autonomous helicopter with four engines (quadrotor) capable of carrying out extreme movements in confined areas. Daniel Mellinger, Nathan Michael and Vijay Kumar from Grasp Lab at the University of Pennsylvania have designed this ultra easy to use UAV (Unmanned Aerial Ve…
Here's Octavia the android, presented at Fleet Week 2010 in New York, an annual meeting of Navy and American coast guard professionals. It was designed by the US Naval Research Lab to interact with humans (with its camera and sensors) and particularly with naval staff. The robot can express joy…
Here's a video demonstration of the Warrior 710 by iRobot, with an APOBS (Anti-Personnel Obstacle Breaching System). It's a robot for destroying anti-personnel mines used in the military which is capable of destroying bombs stuck in the sand at a distance without damaging the robot. The idea is…
Here's a 1.83 m (6 feet) tall robot based on the Terminator film. We don't have much more information on this ultra rare specimen except that the replica with the T-800 is almost perfect. This animated prototype has been built mainly out of steel and aluminum. It uses servos and is controlled …
Steve Norris of Norris Labs has developed a friendly beer serving robot. In fact, there are two separate robots. The first one, Baxter or ButlerBot goes to pick up the beer and brings it to the one who drinks it. When it arrives near the robotic refrigerator, Robofridge opens all by itself and…
