One of the hottest toys that kids will want this holiday season has to be Elmo Live. The new toy from Fisher-Price will be ready for shipping on October 14, if you want to get your hands on this hot new toy, then you really do need to pre-order one. Most stores will be offering [...]
AreoVironment just got their Nano Air Vehicle project approved by DARPA, which will be the world’s smallest UAV. Instead of an engine or propeller, this new prototype will have moving wings. The company obtained $636,000 and a six months deadline to complete their project, which will be only 3 inches long and will weigh under [...]
The Dutch robot Flame is the robot that imitates best human walking. You might believe this is easy, but if you look carefully at someone walking, you will surely see all the gestures walking implies. TU Delft PhD student Daan Hobbelen is its creator, and this is his PhD work thesis.
Disney has made available the Wall-E toy at the Maker Faire and I can’t be more excited about it. I guess the kids will probably like more than me because the robot includes tank treads, 10 motors, audio and vision sensors. The Wall-E toy is controlled with the help of a joystick, but I prefer [...]
A tournament has been held this week in Fukoka City, Japan, called the Blaser where Kondo’s KHR-1HV were featuring lasers and sensors. People watched a battle of the robots in a mock-up city and it really is interesting, but a bit dangerous. Watch the video after the jump.
The Off-road Loescheinheit (OLE) is a product of the University of Magdeburg-Stendal, located west of Berlin. OLE is a robot which has the shape of a pill bug (Armadillidium vulgare) and is supposed to prevent fires in the Black Forest from Germany. It is equipped with powdered fire-extinguishing agents and water tanks, and it also [...]
The Z-Flyer Hand Command Robot is a new device that floats in the air and that can be controlled with your bare hand. Turned on, it will stand in the air just above the ground, but if you place your palm under it, it will begin to follow your hand. That’s right, no remote control, [...]
The ABB IRB 340 FlexPicker is a robot used for picking and sorting items like sausages or croissants on a production line. Its leg reminds of the scary machinery from The Matrix, the one that pulled people out of their ‘sleeping’ boxes filled with nutritional fluids. The image of this robot in action is surely [...]
Toshiba introduced to the world a robot that is without any doubt the most interesting so far. What makes it so interesting is the fact that he can talk, learn to work the remote control and it looks very cool. The researchers of the Japanese company called it ApriPoko and it will be operated by [...]
BigDog is one of the world’s most ambitious legged robots, as a YouTube video shows. The key feature is the ability to maintain course and carry on with the task no matter what kind of terrain it faces. The robot is shown climbing a forest hill, climbing the same hill with snow on it, making [...]
A team of researchers from the Stanford University, California, have designed a robot which could climb vertical walls and is destined to climb Martian hills and cliffs in order to find rocks that will help the humanity to learn more about Mars’s geology. The four-limbed robot is called Capuchin, it weighs about 7 kg and [...]
The Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute representatives announced they have finished developing an AI able to pass an avatar version of the Turing test (to convince a person that it is human by communicating in a virtual environment like Second Life). They named the bot “Rascals”, which stands for Rensselaer Advanced Synthetic Architecture for Living Systems. As [...]
Here is a robot concept designed to climb walls and to diagnose the integrity of a building’s structure. The robot is called C-Bot and it climbs walls in a clever way using its footpads which are covered in nano-hair. Another feature that helps it when climbing is a sensor which emits ultrasonic rays. The C-Bot [...]
Do you remember Google’s contest? Yeah, you do – it’s the Lunar X Prize which could bring $20 million for the winning team. In order to win this competition, the team will have to send a craft into space and land it on the moon, then the rover will transmit specific data to Earth, move [...]
Researchers have finally found a way to keep birds away from airports. After ten years of researches they managed to develop the Falco Robot GBRS, meaning Gregarious Bird Removal System. The robots are remote-controlled and can scare the birds from Genoa airport. This really is an ingenious way to improve air traffic in airports. Source
