The Manoï robot is known for its various dance skills. We have already shown you it dancing to Japonese rap and spinning upside down on its head. Now it's back with a new, rather original exercise. It moves in synchronicity with a dancer and a second humanoid robot which is life-sized. Man…
Hospi is an autonomous robot created by Panasonic and intended for South Korean hospitals. Hospi can move around patients' rooms and serve meals, clean laundry, medication, X-rays, documents to sign, etc. This type of robot has been used in hospitals in Japan since 2006. Equipped with a video …
According to Vincent Schramm, the Director of the French association for manufacturing technologies (SYMOP) in an article in Figaro, France has fallen behind its neighbours in terms of industrial robotics. In France, the biggest companies are lowering the low purchase prices which is encouraging…
Cody is a new humanoid robot, a work in progress at Healthcare Robotics Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta). This robot can open closet doors and drawers and can follow a person holding it by the hand. Cody is manipulated with a remote control just like those for video games, o…
The Boeing A160T Robocopter is a pilotless helicopter that can lift loads up to 1135 kg. The video of the A160 (2007): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gndveJE24bg This robocopter model can also reach an unbelievable height of 12 000 feet (3657 meters above sea level) with 567 kg, this is ideal …
At the Expo FC 2010 in Japan, Osaka University presented a pretty mind-blowing prototype of a robotic fish. Its movements in particular are so realistic you could easily mistake it for a real fish. It measures 10 cm in length, is powered by a solid polymer fuel cell (Power Tube) and a polymer l…
The PR2 by Willow Garage is able to autocalibrate on its own with a new ROS (Robot Operating System) software application. This saves a considerable amount of time since the robot is left alone to work in order to calibrate its sensors. And here it is in the video demonstration below. For a remi…
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) hopes to develop an Underground Robotic Munition (RUM) to be used for single use. This robot would be able to go underground and dig a hole towards a potential underground target; once it reaches its destination it would explode, thus destroying its ene…
The robot Tsutenkaku is a robot in the shape of a tower which measures 1.70 m and was developed by 7 Japanese companies. Such originality is tough to beat. The creators of Tsutenkaku say that it is the largest humanoid robot in the world. On the technical side, Tsutenkaku walks on its two legs…
Virtopsy laboratory for the Medical-Legal Institute of the University of Berne in Switzerland, has developed Virtobot, a robot capable of conducting autopsies on cadavers without opening them up. According to TSR.ch, the device, in addition to this feat, makes it possible to retain autopsy data …
GarbageBot is a robotic garbage can invented by Osaka University and Mitsubishi. Its eyes contain laser recognition technology which allows it to separate waste: up to six different types of plastic. Because GarbageBot will separate more than plastic to then be recycled, this will also enable r…
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the Japanese have just pushed the boundaries of the imagination back a little further in terms of robotics with the creation of a humanoid baby robot called Yotaro. Its purpose? To boost births in Japan. The baby's face is made of translucent silicone and…
SmartDust is an "intelligent dust" network project made up of mini-robots with wireless sensors. As big as a dust particle or a grain of sand, these small and mobile intelligent forms (autonomous or remote control) can be used to explore space and some planets, adjust temperatures, detect earth…
Two web engineers, Tim Heath (Python specialist) and Ryan Hickman (who works for Google Double Click) have developed a mini tank which operates with a mobile phone running on Android. The HTC G1 phone that sits on the tank robot directs the small vehicle which currently possesses limited mobile …
This small dancing robot manages to move while following the beat of tomtoms. This is a small humanoid MANOI AT-01 at Yankadi club (Western African Drum) at Clarkson University (USA). Perfect for adding entertainment to your evenings since he lasts longer than a human :-0 http://www.youtube.co…
Kojiro is a humanoid robot developed at the University of Tokyo in Japan (JSK Robotics Lab). Its characteristic is that it tries to replicate the movements of a human by imitating the functioning of the human skeleton, muscles and tendons. On one side this robot has things in common with the EC…
