Posts Tagged Autonomous Robots

  • New Sensing For Autonomous Robot Modeled On Fish 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...

  • Paparazzi Bots Will Chase You Down Until You Love Them Paparazzi Bots Will Chase You Down Until You Love Them

    The Paparazzi Bots are autonomous robots which is a tech-hybrid camera and cameraman. It is comprised of multiple cameras and sensors on a custom-built rolling platform. They move at the speed of a walking human, avoiding walls and obstacles. The robots stand at human height. With the help o...

  • RoBe:Do Launched Three After Coppa and Silvio: Netbook Powered Autonomous Robots RoBe:Do Launched Three After Coppa and Silvio: Netbook Powered Autonomous Robots

    Having your own laptop makes a lot of good things to work on easy. But wouldn't it be too ambitious even to imagine, that your laptop (or netbook) can power autonomous robots? Imagine no more, because it's real and it's here! Netbook-powered robots are already running errands for their masters...

  • TRESSA: NASA's Rock-Climbing Trio TRESSA: NASA’s Rock-Climbing Trio

    Seeing it for the first time, i thought it was a robot climbing by itself. It was not. Tressa, is the team name of three mobile robots helping each other climb a steep rock of up 90 degrees. A perfect slope for an autonomous robot huh? Tressa, Teamed Robots for Exploration and Science in Steep A...

  • Pentagon to Deploy Autonomous Fighting Robots in Battlefields Pentagon to Deploy Autonomous Fighting Robots in Battlefields

    It looks like we're gearing towards robotic warfare! Have you seen the movie "District 9"?, although the bad guys were aliens, the concept of robotic war is evident. That was fiction though. In real life, more than 5000 lethal and nonlethal robots, with remote human intervention have already...