Matt Bunting, an electrical engineering student in Tucson, Arizona has developed a particularly successful hexapod robot. This is a robot spider that moves in all directions with incredible flexibility and with legs that are both, joined and independent. The student project is so successful that …
The Ibn Sina robot is the first humanoid in the world that speaks Arabic. It is based on Iranian philosopher Avicenna who can be considered as the Leonardo of the East. It was one of the stars of the 2009 Dubai Gitex show. Ibn Sina recently flew in an airplane for the first time aboard the E
Too bad for us, gentlemen, no more beautiful barmaid with this beer serving bartender robot. Researchers at the British Middlesex University have developed a Heineken robot that walks around behind the counter by itself and automatically fills beer-glasses. This prototype was unveiled at Kineti…
Science fiction and robot moviegoers: you probably have seen the movie Robocop from 1988. A character who looks just as good as always, and who is also saying hello in an old Korean chicken commercial :-) Not quite recent, since this is a TV commercial from the 80s! http://www.youtube.com/watch?…
Willow Garage has launched an initiative to create and develop Open Source robotics. It is based on its PR2 (Personal Robot 2) physical platform and on its ROS (Robot Operating System) open source software application. Initially the firm will provide ten PR2's to research organizations. The pu…
The RP-7 robot resembles a great boot fitted with a screen and a video camera. It is 5 foot tall (1.52 m) and allows patients and hospital staff to communicate with doctors at anytime. In addition one can connect it to electronic measuring devices (stethoscopes, otoscopes and ultrasounds) to tr…
The Hexapod walking robot below is a Lego NXT with 6 legs. The legs are controlled by motors on the right and on the left. The motor on the back controls the middle legs and assists in tilting it to the left or to the right. Operation example: the left-center drops, the left-side legs go up and t…
The first National Robotics Week (National Robotics Week) will take place from the April 10 to the 18, 2010 in the United States; this event is held annually. Robotic technology, which is described as a pillar of American innovation of 21st century will be honored. This event is a joint effort …
A video dating a few months but well worth a visit if you have never seen the dancing robots. These are the best dance performances by hexapod robots at the fourth Hexapod Austrian Championship in 2009. A hexapod robot is one that has 6 legs. The stars on the dance floor, shake-it-up! You are ab…
A video displayed at Nasa Watch portraying a Robotnaut from Nasa's Project M. This remote controlled robot will be used for lunar missions and may even be commissioned in less than 1000 days (about 3 years) once the project gets startup confirmation. And according to Americaspace, would have alre…
My work occasionally has a surplus computer sale, where they get rid of old or non functioning computers. So I picked up a nonfunctioning one complete with keyboard and mouse for free. This is also probably a good time to show you my basement workshop.The whole setup takes up a corner in the base
The 30th competition of robotic laboratory rats took place in Japan at Micromouse 2009. A rat or mouse capable of finding their way in a maze is impressive, but what you are about to see in this video has - kind of - nothing to do with speed. Incredible! Initially, the mouse assesses and scans t…
NASA, General Motors and Oceaneering Space Systems have just introduced their latest astronaut robot prototype Robonaut2. Three years of work were needed to develop the robot worker that will be used for dangerous space missions. Robonaut2 is equipped with arms, hands, and fingers; it can lift …
fuRo in Japan has developed a jacket system (WIND) that allows remotely controlling a robot. The vest is equipped with sensors that detect the movements of anyone wearing it and wirelessly sends instructions to the robot, which in turn receives and executes them. It replicates exactly the movem…
What you are about to see in this video may shock you; please take a seat :-) The robot below is comprised of parts from Lego Mindstorms NXT, a programmable kit and a Nokia N95 mobile phone. It can solve a Rubik's Cube with16 small squares per side (4x4 x 6 sides). To begin, the Nokia takes a ph…
The city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates is equipped with robotic window washers. The advantages of robots from the Serbot AG company are numerous: worker safety (robots instead of humans), faster execution speed (150 m2 per hour for the machine instead of 20 to 30 for a man) and the option o…
