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• Robot Wall AWE Transforms Itself To Your Interests

  Last January, the annual IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems was filled with new innovations and intelligent systems that promises to deliver pleasure to the makers and clients alike. Among the video presentations, one that caught the eyes of the media researchers ...

• Kitchen Cleaning Robot, Readybot is a Major Domo

  The newest development of Readybot Challenge is a robot that is capable of cleaning your kitchen. This robot has two human-sized arms. It can do many routines such as dumping leftovers in the trash can and loading dishwashers. The developers of the robot said that the robot can perform up to 40%...

• Biomimetics: Climbing Robots Use Whegs

  Researchers at the Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab or the Biomimetics Lab, developed the Whegs series. Case Western Reserve University used both wheels and legs to create Whegs robots, mini-Whegs, and climbing mini-Whegs. The robots move freely at a relatively high speed and climb over obstacl...

• Robotic Fly Takes Off

  There are already many flying robots that exist but this robotic fly is the first at such a small scale. Enthused by a true fly, Prof. Wood and his team from Harvard University developed a 60 milligram robot with a three-centimeter wingspan that is able to achieve the flight performance of a re...

• Unnamed Humanoid “UH” from Iowa State Learns To Learn

  Iowa State University’s Developmental Robotics Lab is trying to find it out how the robot works in the same way like a 2 year old does by attempting to break the stuff. They used an unnamed humanoid (“uh”) to do this experiment. The unnamed humanoid maneuvers objects in many different ways ...

• Robotic Snake – SnakeBots in the Spotlight

  Over the years, several models of robotic snakes have been developed by the researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer. Their recent robotic snakes are called snakebots. Snakebots move like the real thing. Snakebots are intelligent and they move with the help of hydrauli...

• Development of Adaptive Behavior in Robots

  There is a new experiment done by some researchers. They developed small, mobile robots that are controlled by onboard neural networks capable of learning. Multiple experiments are done and they found out that robots evolved complex behavioral patters such as homing, co-adaptation of brains and ...

• Pneumatic Powered Robot Walks with Oxygen-Tubing Legs

  A robot that walks with 24 hospital oxygen-tubing legs was built by Monica Anderson and has won two first prizes, Best demo and best presentation. This robot’s leg is controlled by a Mac Mini using Emacs and C (GCC) are the programming software. It took Monica 5 weekends to completely build th...

• DARPA Wants A Bigger BigDog

  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or DARPA has just awarded a $32 million dollar contract to Boston Dynamics to create a bigger Bigdog. Last year, we met Boston Dynamics BigDog and he was quite efficient as an army companion. However, DARPA announced this year that they wanted a bigge...

• Wall Climbing Robots Do More by Amir Shapiro

  In the previous article, we featured a wall climbing robot that's able to climb up a freely configurable wall unassisted. But as I did further research on these types of robots, I've realized how new robots could climb on either a smooth or a rough wall surfaces without having to configure their pat...

• Nano-Robotic Arm Places Atoms and Molecules with 100% Accuracy and Precision

  Manufactured products are basically made of atoms, and structures of these products depend on how the atoms are arranged. For example, if one rearranges atoms in coal, it will form into diamond. This concept is called nanotechnology. It uses positioning and assembly of atoms in order to create m...