What a surprise to see two altered Titan robots dance beside Rihanna, the singer! It happened at the Echo Music Awards in Berlin, Germany. Rihanna interpreted her song "Rude Boy". More than one human in the hall would have certainly wanted to change places with these robots :-) http://www.y…
The LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) bought a remote control mobile robot by Northrop Grumman Remotec. This is a Caterpillar TL1255 that does not have a driver but can be controlled remotely from a distance of 1.6 km (1 mile). The arms of the machine have a range of 12 meters in front and 1…
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…
Steve de BotBuilder built a Dalek robot capable of working via the iPhone / iPod by using the Wi-Fi and accelerometer of the Apple device. Simply tilt the iPhone to make the robot move in the desired direction. For those wondering what Dalek is, it is a mutant alien robot from the British telev…
The M3-Neony baby robot is the result of work done by Japanese researchers from the University of Osaka. Professor Minoru Asada has been directing the research carried out in partnership with the JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency) since 2005. The main objective is to make the M3-Neony in…
How can you recycle an old Microsoft Xbox 360 console into a robot ? That is exactly what Jasper Stevens did when building this tiny sculpture. Rather than putting the console in the garbage or leaving it in a corner, why not use it as a decorative accessory. This is called art robotics :-) v…
ECCE is a humanoid robot with a replicated human structure. Researchers went even further with this one-eyed (a video camera) robot and made the bust of the robot look and move just like a human's bust. The anthropomimetic robot liberates the barriers found with the robotic metallic structures …
The HUMAVIPS project consists of developing Homanoids with auditory and visual abilities in populated spaces. ("Humanoids with auditory and visual abilities in populated spaces"). European researchers are developing a prototype robotic that will be able to find a particular person amongst a nois…
MiddleCreekMerchants made the small insect robots above with the help of electronic pieces: cable connectors for the legs and diodes for the antennas. These mini-robots move in all directions of your desk and are directed with the use of a remote control...for the TV! Certainly this is not revo…
The High-Tech fair CeBIT 2010 is currently on in Hanover, Germany. The 4 robots from the University of Bremen (Germany), Rajesh, Penny, Sheldon and Leonard, are all 60 cm high and are members of the soccer team that won the Robot Football World Cup in Austria in 2009. These small humanoids use …
The Swiss company, Arimaz, has created a small robot in the shape of a penguin that connects to Facebook. MyDeskFriend can read your e-mails and messages from your contacts on Facebook, the news via RSS feeds, check weather, follow the course of your favorite stock, and even interact with other …
Three Motoman robots perform a light saber dance. The video was filmed at iRex 2009 at the international exhibition of robotics of Tokyo in Japan. If you remember, Motoman is the same one that can make pancakes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G09aHF7-P5o
Engineers at the University of Michigan, Kuo and Steve Collins, have developed a bionic foot prosthesis cutting efforts by 30 % compared to classic prosthesis. Its principle is based on the recycling of energy between two steps in order to increase its strength. This is the first prosthesis th…
The humanoid robot Dynamizer (a champion at the Robo-One competition) from Japanese national Tomio Sugiura is already a star in the robotics world. Dynamizer does it all: it skis, plays soccer, baseball, cooks and barbecues, it mows the lawn and goes fishing. The video below will inspire your ful…
MeBot is a new telepresence mobile robot created by the MIT in Boston. It has a small screen to display the face of the person in teleconference, and two little arms. Additionally, its neck can move to express emotions (3 degrees of freedom). MeBot's base is also mobile. A fabulous invention …
RoboCar is an autonomous car prototype manufactured in Japan by ZMP, a robotics startup. This car is remote controlled by computer and it avoids any obstacles only using its sensors, lasers, radar, and embedded video cameras. In fact this model is a replica of the robocar toy that already exist…
