Just like bears, mountain lions and tigers you can now add robots to the list of things you can’t get away from by climbing a tree. Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong have developed a robot with the ability to climb trees. Treebot has a basic frame with two sets of claws on […]
Autobots transform! While this transforming robot probably won’t be protected the planet from other maniacal robots bent on evil, it might one day help in surveillance or search and rescue. The Center for Distributed Robotics at the University of Minnesota have built a small bi-wheeled robot that can transform in to a helicopter. The robot […]
“Mad Scientists” Dario Floreano and Laurent Keller have built living robots. Okay so these little guys are not really, “Alive!” However, they have developed the ability to share with fellow robotkind. The robots were given the opportunity to move around a simple environment to scout for cylindrical objects that acted as food. The goal was […]
Luna, a robot built by RoboDynamics, may just be the thing to keep your house in order. The robot companion is as tall as a human, has a touchscreen display, cameras, microphone array, speakers, expansion ports and WiFi. So basically it is giant Smartphone that can move under its own power. All I can say […]
With the help of eight motion capture cameras mounted above a screened in arena these little robots can juggle. The motion capture data is fed into a computer, which tells the Quadrotor Vehicles where the ball is and how to react appropriately with remarkable accuracy.
A robot that makes you drinks. Rosie from The Jetsons can’t be far behind. The robot, cleverly named Barbot, was built by a hacker collective in New York. Barbot makes 23 different drinks which are randomly chosen slot machine Vegas style. At least unlike in Vegas every spin is a winner. See how Barbot works […]
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