If you feel like shaking hand with your girl friend sitting on the other side of a computer having tele-conference or video chat with you then a robotic hand being developed by Osaka University will do the trick for you. Just don’t worry. It will be warm experience. The robotic hand is developed for tele-handshaking [...]
Robots, their history is so deep in the time that it goes back to the Ancient Greece, Ancient China, and Ptolemaic Egypt. All of them tried to build self operating machines to aid them in daily chores. But the modern history of robots is not that old, William Grey’s Tortoise and Unimate (a robotic arm [...]
Engineers at Meka Robotics and the University of Texas in Austin are developing a robot named HUME, a bipedal robot having the Parkour skills. With that you might think HUME is starring in the sequel of District 13 movie that had one of its main characters displaying the art of Parkour sport in an action [...]
Somewhere in Japan there’s Keio University that has a researcher named Masayasu Ogata, who has made scary looking robotic eye ring with eyelids. PYGMY robot rings, according to the researcher, are made to enhance the interaction experience between humans and gadgets and to express emotions. PYGMY robot rings can be remotely controlled via special controller [...]
Engineers from Virginia Tech, US, are developing a jellyfish like robot that would aid the US navy in underwater rescue missions. The robot named Robojelly shall be first of its kind with hydrogen-powered feature, meaning it would never run out of energy. “To our knowledge, this is the first successful powering of an underwater robot [...]
Albeit, Pentagon had has invested huge money into R&D (Research and Development) of robotics in order to aid the US military the urge to “go for more” is undeterred. After DARPA’s SeeMe constellation of disposable small satellites project, Naval Research Laboratory is working on robotic firefighters for Pentagon. Shipboard Autonomous Firefighting Robot, aka Saffir, will [...]
The world of robots is wondrous as the undeterred advancements in this very discipline leave me overjoyed. Almost a week ago we previewed a sketching bot from Germany’s IOSB. What know I have for you a robot that also make sketches but it is smaller and it is more creative, called Piccolo. I really like [...]
The Cheetah is also a footwear brand but right now I am talking about a robot with same name funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and developed by Boston Dynamics. This robot, Cheetah, has set a new record of running on a treadmill at the speed of 18 mph. The four legged robot [...]
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB) in Germany have recently developed a sketching robot that can accurately draw a human face in just ten minutes. It is an industrial robot which has been adapted to sketch an authentic interpretation of its subject. The robot installation was developed by [...]
You may remember our post about PETMAN, a headless robot unlike a horrifying headless soul played by Christopher Walken in Sleepy Hollow, which was funded by DARPA to be used in US Army. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) which is a US agency responsible for aiding the US military with the development of new [...]
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