The privately held LiftPort Group Inc. made one of it's milestones in its quest to build a space elevator. A robot has successfully climbed up a 1,000 ft long 'rope' to a teathered baloon. The rope was actually an ultra strong carbon nano-tube ribbon that will eventually be stretched from a platfor…
Note: Lest ye be confused, this is actually a few years old. FYI. I stumbled upon this via Del.icio.us. It's a beautifully rendered short film with this premise: "What if we could build a system to help police in developing nations?" The solution, presented in breathtaki…
Check out this great page, the "Unmanned flight machines for fight & monitoring" Gallery. It's in German, so I've linked to the Google translation. It shows a huge list of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) along with descriptions. A lot of these I've never seen before. Also included are…
Oh man, I want one of these! Unveiled on September 18th at, "An exhibition of major achievements of the national 10th Five-Year program," The "Huitong" robot, "possesses functions including sense of sight, audio dialogue, sense of force and sense of balance. This humanoid r…
A team of folks from across the pond, University of Southampton, claim to have invented the best artificial hand so far. That's quite a claim for the 6 motor device. The, "team has designed a prototype that uses six sets of motors and gears so each of the five fingers can move independently.&q…
