Archive for Robotics Sensors
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Smart Fake Foot Recycles Energy To Boost Walking Efficiency
A smart fake foot uses springs and electronics mechanism to recycle or reuse energy lost during walking, literally helps our friends with artificial legs to walk as normally as the able-bodied. According to Steven Collins, a bio-mechanics researcher at the Delft University of Technology in the Ne...
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Micro-Helicopter Smart Flyfire Swarm to Create Giant 3D Display
Creating gigantic 3D displays is an art that all artists do in a matter of days or months. But a swarm of flyfires can actually do 3D displays instantaneously and magnificently. These swarm of smart flyfires are actually micro-helicopters as tiny as a 5 inches, but can literally synchronize thems...
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Earthquake Detecting Robot Developed by Indian Student
The earthquake detecting robot performs a useful purpose and looks fierce while doing so. The devastating earthquake that struck his native State, and the recent earthquake in Haiti prompted Hiren Patel and a group of student from J T Engineering College in Gujarat, India, to develop a robot that...
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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%...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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Japan Exposed Their Supermodel Robot HRP-4C
Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology brought to the public their latest supermodel robot, HRP-4C. HRP-4C may be not as graceful as Cindy Crawford but this talking and walking girlbot can do the catwalk with some other models. HRP-4C which cost about $2 ...
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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...
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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...
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Goodbye Spirit. Go Opportunity!
Just recently, NASA made their official announcement to leave NASA's Mars Rover Spirit, after painstakingly doing everything to pull her up from the sand. Remember Spirit? no, not the horse, but NASA's mobile Mars Rover which after six long years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, co...