White Box Robotics has finally started shipping its first run of PC 914 robots. By now the first run should be completely shipped, sans the attractive outer shell, due to delays in manufacturing. You may also notice that two small vertical parting lines were added to the bottom of the robot to brin…
Our friends over at Robot Magazine sent us a note that they'd gotten an exclusive shot of the new Vex Robotics Development system that is in the works. The new system will be jointly created by Revell Monogram LLC and Innovation First, Inc. (the original developers of Vex). Innovation First will
Yen-Wen Lu and Chang-Jin Kim at UCLA have created the World's Smallest robotic hand . The hand, which is capable of grasping an object 1mm across, has four fingers made of silicone and polymer joints. The hand operates pneumatically when the balloon joints are inflated. The hand is seen in th …
The HAL-5 exoskeleton suit is nearing "mass" production. Engadget reports that professor Yoshiyuki Sankai at Tsukuba University is hoping to have the suit ready for 400-500 units by 2008, with a mere 20 units produced in 2007. The suite allows its user to double his lifting abilities.It…
VeraTech Aero, a Minnesota USA based company, has invented an aircraft that is nearly invisible to the naked eye. The secret to this technology is the concept of persistance of vision, or the lack thereof. The aircraft is uniquely created so that as it spins, its center of mass is in open space. T…
