Archive for Robotics
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Chararobo Creates Robot Mascot for Cable TV
A new Japanese company called Chararobo (Character Robot) has produced a robot for Cable TV, Inc. based on C.C.9’s mascot Kyuchan (kyu being “9″ in Japanese). This robot starts to dance when it detects a person nearby. It is located on the front desk on the Cable TV’s headquarters. ...
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Honda U3-X
The Honda U3-X’s looks like a seated Segway, and uses gyroscopes to keep the unicycle vertical. This lightweight and compact one-wheeled device also features a foldable seat and retractable footrests. U3-X uses an advanced Honda proprietary balance-control system which derives from its res...
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Robotic Buggy Takes Stunning Photos of African Wildlife
A new robotic cam is up for the dangerous task of taking pictures of wildlife up close. Will Burrard-Lucas and his brother Matthew developed BeetleCam. It is a DSLR camera, a Canon EOS 400D mounted on top of a four-wheel drive remote control buggy. “We were driven to embark upon an ambitio...
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Robotic Hand Lets You Feel Your Partner Over The Internet
A robotic hand has been developed by scientists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong which allows friends and family to hold hands with their loved ones over the internet. The cyber-hand plugs into a computer and communicates with an electronic wristband to allow people talking over the int...
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TINYWAVE Bipedal Hobby Robot Now Available
TINYWAVE was developed by Jeon chang-hoon, Chamipon of ROBO-ONE KOREA and Tomio Sugiura, famous for robot builder of ROBO-ONE GP Robot, Dynamyzer. The constructed products are made from SUGIURA MACHINE DESIGN OFFICE. TINYWAVE is a 33cm (13″) tall bipedal hobby robot weighing 1.45kg (inclu...
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New Sensing For Autonomous Robot Modeled On Fish
The underwater robot “Snookie” is modeled on the blind Mexican cave fish Astyanax. Developed by the Technische Universität München under CoTeSys (Cognition for Technical Systems) excellence cluster in Munich, it can orient itself in murky waters with an artificial sensory organ inspired by...
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Stanford Robotics @ NRW: Stickybot III
A new version of Stickybot was introduced at Stanford’s National Robotics Week event. Stickybot III, a gecko-inspired climbing robot, was completed mere weeks ago. The difficulty in getting Stickybot III to climb is due in large part to the way the sticky pads are attached to its feet....
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Hanako: The Dental Patient Simulator
The three Japanese universities Waseda, Kogakuin and Showa, and robot maker Tmsuk have developed Hanako, a robotic dental patient who can behave like a human patient. This female robot can converse with doctors (“Please examine me!”, “That hurts!” etc.), discharge robotic saliva, sneeze...
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Adept Technology Ships First USDA Accepted Parallel Robot
Adept Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADEP), a leading provider of intelligent vision-guided robotics and global robotics services, has already launched the first of its USDA-accepted robots. The Adept Quattro s650HS is the industry’s only USDA-accepted parallel robot available for meat and poultry p...
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Four Letter Words robot plays word association, swears quite a bit
New York-based artist and programmer Rob Seward's 'Four Letter Words' electronic sculpture will spell out nice and/or dirty words at you. A series of small fluorescent tubes move about to form an angular typeface of shifting verbiage, displaying English language words of up to four characters lo...
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Audi’s Robotic Car Drives Better Than You Do
The robocar Shelley is a 2010 TTS and can run without a human behind the wheels or inside the car. The team chose it because it features a fly-by-wire throttle, adaptive cruise control, a semiautomatic DSG gearbox and other gadgetry. That made it relatively easy to make the car fully autonomous...