Ah yes the dragonfly, so insignificant, yet so fascinating to watch…well if you hate insect like me, you can now watch your favorite bug in the form of a bot. With the BionicOpter, Festo has technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly. Just like its model in nature, this ultralight flying object
Category Archives: Robots
Amazing Humanoid that can Catch Two Balls at once – Rollin’ Justin
With nearly 80% accuracy, DLR’s (German Aerospace Agency) flagship robot, Rollin’ Justin, can now catch balls thrown in its direction. New controllers equip the 45kg robot with a 3D camera system, 43 joints (5 in his torso, 7 in each arm plus 12 in each hand), and a total of 84 sensors. This task is
The Robotic Seagull that doesn’t Crap on your Head
A bird that doesn’t crap on your head…perfect! What may look like an air filled balloon caricature of a seagull is actually a robot dubbed SmartBird. Designed by Festo, the flying robot has been developed as part of their 2011 Bionic Learning Network project and is designed to start, fly and land autonomously without human
Xbox 360 Stuffed into R2-D2’s Stomach with working Projector
As far as mods go, it doesn’t get any cooler than this. From the mind of Mark Bongo from Major League Mods, comes R2-D2 with an Xbox 360 surgically implanted into its stomach. The amazing part is rather than projecting boring old Princess Lea, the projector which comes out from Artoo’s head, projects out to
The Incredibly Realistic, yet Creepy Geminoid DK Robot
This is a complete mind F#$K! Japanese researchers have blurred the lines between man and machine with their latest robot, the incredibly realistic, but hela creepy Geminoid-DK. The robot has been constructed to look exactly like Henrik Scharfe, an associate professor of Aalborg University in Denmark and is the first of the series based on
Headless Terminator and Cheetah Bot companion heading to the battlefield
Like a cop with his K9 the future of war will be fought by a headless robot and its trusty cheetah bot companion. Remember BigDog? Well man’s favorite four legged robot is about to get a serious upgrade, by upgrade I mean make-over. Boston dynamics, the makers of BigDog, was given two new contracts this
NASA’s First Robot Astronaut sent into Space to clean Toilets
It seems like only yesterday that Buzz landed on the moon. Nearly 42 years later, when the space shuttle Discovery launches later today, Robonaut 2 (R2), will become the first humanoid robot in space. Imagine an astronaut that can work tirelessly 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — without needing food, drink, or
Snakebot takes a new twist on Heartworm
This is a new twist on ‘Heartworm’ as the next time you go in for heart surgery, this little snakebot is going to make himself right at home deep inside your chest via a small hole in your solar plexus. CardioArm can assist surgeon’s procedures, slithering into places in the body too tight or dangerous
Finally a Robot that Folds my Stinking Laundry
Aside from the beer fetching robot, this could be the next best thing in robotics – A robot that folds your laundry. Created by the masters of robotics at the University of California at Berkeley, this robot can fold clothes using green screen technology and a technique called, “background subtraction.” The technique removes the entire
A Swarm of Quadrotors unite to build a Structure
Watch how these quadrotors at UPenn’s GRASP laboratory build a structure. It’s interesting to speculate how this technology might grow out of the lab into the real world… To build actual buildings, you might need slightly much bigger quadrotors or thousands of small quadrotors cooperating in big pieces. They’re like angry robotic wasps! There’s going
