Archive for Robotics Sensors
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Japanese Fish Robots Teach Children About Marine Life
A marine biologist and ecologist came up with the idea of creating miniature marine life robots in order to broaden the learning of school children about sea life. Japan is famous for its diverse selection of tropical fish. In fact they are the first ones to breed several kinds of aquarium fish l...
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“Motorized Knee” Makes Running 30% More Efficient
From the inventors of the famous robot suit HAL-5, comes another innovation that will help increase the efficiency of a human body movement, running. In particular, this so-called machine is intended for people who love to run as a form of exercise. This may help our disabled friends, but the de...
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Walking Robot Changes Gaits Autonomously
A mechanism called "chaos control" enables a simple robot to switch its gaits spontaneously and autonomously. Scientists from the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Göttingen, the Physics Department of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for Dynami...
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Air Force Completes Killer Micro-Drone Project
The Air Force Research Laboratory has finally completed the development of a tiny, armed drone, named Project Anubis after a jackal-headed Egyptian god. Project Anubis was started in 2008 ultimately created as an assassination robot for "high value target". But a recent military R & D documents n...
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CES 2010: Parrot’s A.R. Quadricopter Drone Controlled by iPhone
You see the one that's not in the shelf gets the most attention. Seen flying over the heads of the journalist was the Quadricopter Drone developed by Parrot. The quadricopter is also part of the CES 2010 show, and to get noticed, this UAV, being controlled by an iPhone or iPod, has to fly around...
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Biomimetics: Creating the Model for the First Legged Robot To Run Effortlessly
Getting inspiration from nature, make better robots. Scientiically referred to as Biomimetics, it has become a major engineering strategy to develop robots that act and react like insects. Insects, particularly, cockroaches are nauseating and are most feared for its appearance. But Biomim...
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Robot Guards, New Patrols on National Borders
In response to the long-aged problems in illegal immigration, cross-border terrorism and contraband smuggling, some nations turn to robotic surveillance systems supported by the latest and most reliable robotic systems. A recent conference on state security was held at Leeds Metropolitan Universi...
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Autonomous Surgical Robot Finds and Removes Shrapnels
One of the most remarkable medical advances today are surgical robots that do guide and even help surgeons perform critical operations with ease of excellence. I am so amazed at how these robots are able to do such critical, flesh-invasive tasks with little or no intervention from surgeons. Like ...
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International Robot Exhibit 2009 in Tokyo, Japan
The 2009 International Robot Exhibit or IREX was a huge success. The annual event was held last November 25-28, 2009 at the Tokyo International Exhibition Center or popularly known as the Tokyo Big Sight. IREX 2009 was participated by various robot manufacturers, engineers, scientists and even e...
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Robovie Goes Shopping with Grandma
In response to a very significant statistics of seniors in Japan, Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International or ATR developed a robot that will come to the aid of grandma whenever needed. Robots, in Japan are essentially making a great deal in helping out seniors do their tasks....
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Japan’s First Autonomous Agricultural Robot
According to an ancient folk song "Planting (rice) is never fun, Bent from up 'till the set of sun. Can not stand and can not sit, can not rest for a little bit". This is how planting rice used to be and oh well, some other countries do still have these traditional way. However in Japan, planting...