Posts Tagged Build Robot

  • Pneumatic Powered Robot Walks with Oxygen-Tubing Legs 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...

  • NASA's Superbot Is A NASA’s Superbot Is A “Real Transformer”

    Remember the "Transformers" fictitious characters like Megatron and Optimus Prime? They have the abilities to quickly transform into a ten-wheeler truck or a trailer. Well, this motion picture has finally come to the real world. "Real transformers" are actually here. NASA's Superbot is the "real ...

  • Cheetah, Gecko and Roaches - Inspire Robot Designer Cheetah, Gecko and Roaches – Inspire Robot Designer

    These are wild animals! Ironically, robot engineers hatched their imaginations on these creations. Robotic designer Sangbae Kim, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, decided to study on some of the mechanisms these animals use and replicate them in robots. Cheetah is the f...