Archive for the 'Hardware' Category

Robots with a mind of their own

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

More swarmbots

Army’s Mini-Drone Swarm

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Self-Assembling Modular Robot

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Check out this cool and rather funny demonstration of a modular robot reassembling itself upon being kicked by an evil human.

Dextre the Space Janitor

Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronauts bound for orbit this week will dabble in science fiction, assembling a “monstrous” two-armed space station robot that will rise like Frankenstein from its transport bed.
Putting together Dextre, the robot, will be one of the main jobs for the seven Endeavour astronauts, who are scheduled to blast off [...]

Water Bouncing Robots

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

“The way water striders walk on water was discovered years ago. The insect uses its long legs to help evenly distribute its tiny body weight. The weight is distributed over a large area so that the fragile skin formed by surface tension supports the bug on the water. However, the ability of water striders to [...]

REEM-B, Yet Another Android

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

“There is a quite an interesting human size robot that comes from UAE, REEM-A. It has some interesting skills as dynamic walking (of course), object recognition, voice recognition, self localization and mapping, long battery life and face recognition. Recently, the development team announced that the second prototype, REEM-B, will be presented in February 2008. The [...]

The Gundam Crisis

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

Pretty cool Gundam Mech dude.

GUNDAM CRISIS attraction opens up, fanboys unite – Engadget

Tags: attraction + crisis + fun + gundam + japan + mech + Robotics

Nano Contestants at RoboCup

Monday, July 9th, 2007

Say hello to RoboCup’s tiny competitors, the NanoCup!
“A total of five teams from North America and Switzerland built microscopic competitors that were around “six times smaller than an amoeba and weighed no more than a few hundred nanograms.” The wee devices showed their stuff in the oh-so-fascinating Nano Cup soccer match, which had to be [...]

RoboCup 2007

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

“The 2007 installment of RoboCup has begun; individual events opened to the public today. RoboCup is an international robotics symposium and competition whose goal is to advance the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence to the point that in 2050 a robot soccer team can defeat the human world champions. This year, RoboCup is located [...]

Flying Blubber Bots

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

I met Jed Berk and his wicked Blubber Bots at the Reboot 2007 conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. Had good fun interactig with them via bluetooth and touch. It’s amazing how quickly you begin to relate to these machines as “living” entities.
According to creator Jed Berk (who will also help save your pet from drowning), [...]



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