Warehouse robots that help with the packing and stacking of sugar bags, it's a lot faster than "arms". At first glance, these bags of sugar must weigh about 50 kg each. You can imagine the effort spent by workers on carrying out a similar type of loading. Featured in this video, industrial robot…
The Micropilot MP-Vision Glider is an unmanned air vehicle. It can be preprogrammed with specific flight plans in advance. This drone can be optionally equipped with a camera to take snapshots of crops or forest areas, for example. The MP-Vision has a radio control but can also fly autonomou…
A world leader of online robot sales is hiding in Quebec :-) Mario Tremblay and Sandra Fradet of RobotShop agreed to be interviewed by a journalist from Quebec's weekly, Echo de la Rive-Nord. The startup has existed for 7 years in Boisbriand on the Boulevard des Entreprises, Quebec. "We want t…
Tomohiro Shibata, a researcher in robotics and Satoko Inoue, who works for Kokoro (a robotics firm) in Japan, have found an original way of getting married. They used a priest robot. The humanoid robot, I-Fairy, officially performed the marriage. It's a world first. I-Fairy by Kokoro costs ab…
The International Robotics company, the pioneer of "Techno-Marketing" (Trademark) designs robots for commercial purposes to carry out the marketing operations of large companies. What's more, their list of customers is pretty impressive. Robot-Dreams has posted a pretty good demonstration video…
The RobotShop team is cooking up a revolutionary concept (according to what I've heard), behind a new site called MyRobots.com. And naturally, like you readers, I'm wondering about a few things. Because no, they haven't let their blogger in on the secret :-( , the little devils :-) So, I asked…
This sculpture is actually a robotic cube capable of keeping its balance by itself with an automatic stabilization mechanism to shift the center of gravity. The modules sway and can maintain the balanced position. Even more incredibly, the structure can be pushed and still not fall. Of course, …
The German Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics presented, at the IEEE 2010, a safety demonstration with an industrial robotic arm. In this case, they wanted to study the contact between a robot handling a sharp tool (scissors, kitchen knife, saw, scalpel) and human skin in order to prevent acci…
Have you heard of Robogames? It's a set of competitions in which robots compete in merciless fights, like gladiators in the arena. Well, here's the best of Robogames 2010 in a slow-motion video. The video was filmed with a Casio Exilim EX-F1 with 300 images per second. http://www.youtube.com/wat…
The bionic hand by the British company, Touch Bionics, is called i-Limb and its purpose is to replace the amputated limbs of people who have suffered accidents or injuries. The i-Limb Pulse is a revolutionary robotic hand-arm which can grab objects in a natural way. As well as shaking hands wit…
We recently told you about the oil spill and the important role played by robots to contain it in the tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico and the BP offshore oil rig. Here's a first new video reported by DeepWaterHorizonResponse yesterday, from a site of support and reflection in order to find a solutio…
The Lockheed Martin Samarai is an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). The project had to be abandoned but a new video has just appeared on YouTube. The SAMARAI is a 30 cm single rotating wing which can fly vertically, land, take off again, and go in any direction. It's inspired by the maple seed, whic…
We told you in March about the DNA nanotubes against cancer, developed at McGill University in Montreal. This time the American researchers have developed robotic molecules capable of modifying DNA to repair damaged or flawed tissues, like small robotic spiders. The robot measures 4 nanometers …
The Trons is an experimental group consisting solely of musician robots. The video is not new but the concept is so appealing that we had to show it to you. It's a music band from Hamilton in New Zealand and entirely automated. Perfect for livening up your evenings without racking your brain. …
It's a sculpture but that doesn't take anything away from it. Here's the R2D2 Heineken robot. This robotics art will please all the Star Wars geeks and fans out there. In fact, it's not too complicated to make your own DIY version: you take a 5 liter barrel of beer or a can of beer (it can also …
In France, according to Gfk Retail & Technology, the vacuum robot market grew faster than the domestic applications market in 2009. Better yet, at the start of 2010 the increase in the market of robotic vacuum cleaners rose +5.6 % in terms of volume and +12 % in terms of value. The sales of…
