Posts Tagged U S Army

  • Biomimetics: Creating Robots from the Real Thing Biomimetics: Creating Robots from the Real Thing

    Biomimetic is a field of robotic engineering primarily focused on developing nature-inspired robots. Biomimetic robots are designed to mimic or copy biological insects or animals' movements, functions and appearance. Biomimetic is somewhat new to the field of robotics, such that it's contribution...

  • Robobees Buzzing Around In the Hope To Save Soldiers' Lives Robobees Buzzing Around In the Hope To Save Soldiers’ Lives

    Micro Air Vehicles or MAV's are being built at the Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory at the University of Maryland, in the hope to save the lives of soldiers at war. The project is a five-year grant of $12 million from the U.S. Army to study the way insects, birds, snakes, and bats navigate and commu...

  • Exoesqueleto: Militaries Aid for Hardwork Exoesqueleto: Militaries Aid for Hardwork

    It looks like Robocop has finally found a match of his own kind. Robot soldiers are getting a lot of media reviews lately, maybe because, they can be valuable substitutes in the future, to human soldiers, which are vulnerable to pain and stress. Exoesqueleto is the spanish name of an external rob...

  • Army’s Robot-Man Walks Like the Real Thing Army’s Robot-Man Walks Like the Real Thing

    A few months back you might recall seeing a robotic mule video, by Boston Dynamics. It was an amazing display of of a four legged mule walking over very difficult terrain with ease. It would even stay upright when violently shoved by one of the technicians. [caption id="attachment_819" align="...

  • JSEL Enables IRobot's Military Bot JSEL Enables IRobot’s Military Bot

    A palm-sized mobile robot was developed by IRobot primarily for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army Research Offices' vision to create the flexible military bot. ChemBot was the name given to the soft morphing robot that is able to traverse complex terrains an...