At just over 13-feet tall and weighing in a massive 4 tons, this iPhone controlled MechWarrior is just a small glimpse into the future of warfare. Recently displayed at Japan’s Wonder Festival 2012 “Kratasu”, the million dollar project is claimed to be the world’s first robot capable of being boarded by a humanoid. At the
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Could this be the Demise of Lego – Cubelets the tiny robot
Incorporating a robot into a Lego block was bound to happen sooner or later. The demise of Lego may be upon us as these cute little blocks called Cubelets have emerged. Each cubelet has a tiny computer inside of it and is a robot in its own right. So when you put blocks together, you’re
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
The Future of Heinz Ketchup Revisited – Staring Mini-Heinz
This is an oldie, but a goody – When it was first shown on YouTube, a year after Google acquisition, it was touted as the best thing on the internet. Whoever thinks the robots will take over the human race is right. They’ve acquired condiment based weaponry. If you don’t find this hysterically funny as
Jazz – The Jack of all trades, first Telepresence Autonomous Robot
There is only one place on earth, I know of that provides a one-stop-robot-shop. Founded by Jean-Christophe Baillie in 2006, Gostai was created to support the development of Urbi, a ground breaking operating system for robotics. In 2010 the team of 20 robotic enthusiasts at Gostai, unveiled Jazz; the first telepresence autonomous robot. The Jazz
Preparing for Human Annihilation, iCub Robot learns how to Shoot Arrows
What better way to prepare the eventual take over of human beings by robots than teaching them how to kill during infancy. This baby robot was given the warrior indian headress and a bow and arrow and shown how to aim and shoot. They start off cute and cuddley like in the first picture, then
