Robotic Jetpack takes to the skies
Robots have taken our jetpacks that we never got to wear, or at least we have turned these jetpacks into autonomous devices. The Martin Aircraft Company shared a video of its newest jetpack prototype,...
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The first-ever all-robotic surgery
It’s been coming for quite some time now, and it’s finally here. The world’s first all-robotic surgery was performed on a Canadian man at Montreal General Hospital, who had his prostate successfully...
View ArticleRobot cooks make pancakes
Cooking is an art sometimes forgotten in the robotics world, but James, the PR2 robot, and Rosie, another robot from CoTeSys (Cognition for Technical Systems) in Munich have joined forces to show that...
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Honda ASIMO’s 10th birthday
Many of the modern day robots owe their inspiration and basic design to Honda’s ASIMO, the humanoid bot which marked his 10 year anniversary on October 31st, Halloween night. Unlike Frankenstein, this...
View ArticleJapan’s Yume Robo climbing robot
The Shanghai Expo in Japan presented three new humanoid robots that have been designed for one function only – to climb walls like nobody’s business. Called “Yume Robo”, the 140cm, 30kg bots have been...
View ArticleGeminoid F takes up acting
The highly realistic android called Geminoid F has been placed in a Japanese play called “Good-bye” and presented at a Tokyo Art Festival. The robot, which costs around $1.2 million, can mostly just...
View Article“Chess Terminator” plays blitz chess with Vladimir Kramnik
Fans of the game of chess surely remember former world champion Vladimir Kramnik, who held the title back in 2006, but the most recent news regarding the Russian gross-master comes from the world of...
View ArticleThe Land Crawler eXtreme robot
Vagabond Works sure have some interesting home-made robots, and the Land Crawler eXtreme will line up as one of their coolest. It is a twelve-legged metallic bot that moves a lot like an insect of some...
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Robotic seagull takes flight in Europe
Festo are once more impressing everybody with the unveiling of their new SmartBird (or robotic seagull) technology (see also their incredible Elephant-inspired robot arm and AirJelly). The new flying...
View ArticleMABEL two-legged robot fastest in the world
It would appear that we have a new champion in the “what robot can run fastest race”. The two-legged robot MABEL under development for several years at the University of Michigan was recently revealed...
View ArticleChainsaw robot makes furniture for your home
Yes, you have read the title correctly! Some interior design students have a pretty wild imagination (and very likely some friends with robotics expertise and access to some cool hardware:) ) as they...
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Robotic prosthetic arm that can feel
The year 2013 has started brilliantly, even more so than 2012 ended. If you recall, it was in late 2012, when it was announced scientists and engineers had developed a robotic arm that a quadriplegic...
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Sir James Dyson on robot vacuums: Not good enough!
Sir James Dyson, the man whose name is synonymous with vacuum cleaners that work (among other wonderful inventions) recently expressed his opinion on the robot vacuums available in the market today. He...
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UK’s Oxford robot car is here
I guess English scientists and engineers don’t like to be outdone by their American counterparts so after many years of hearing constantly about Google’s rapid development of self-driving cars, a team...
View ArticleQuadrocopter inverted pendulum acrobatics
Quadrocopters are all the rage these day but nobody gets them to more impressive acrobatics than the machine learning and control team, led by Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea, at ETH. Whereas just last year...
View ArticleMulti-user spatial collaboration using augmented reality on mobile devices
Augmented reality for mobile devices has grown in popularity in recent years partly because of the proliferation of smart phones and tablet computers equipped with exceptional cameras and partly...
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BigDog dynamic manipulation: It throws a cement block!
Boston Dynamics have amazed us more than once over the years having created some of the most incredible and, at times, scariest (not in the uncanny valley sense but more on the Terminator is real...
View ArticleKUKA robot versus Tim Boll
First, robots defeated man in chess. Second, robots defeated man in the game of Jeopardy. Third, robots proved to man that they can be better drivers. Now, they will get the chance to best man in the...
View ArticleGoogle Project Tango mobile phone
After acquiring just about any robotics company worth something, Google research have now revealed one of their internal projects that aims to create a mobile phone that has all the necessary hardware...
View ArticleGoogle Project Wing delivery drones
After all the excitement that Amazon was working on unmanned drones for package delivery (and many people doubting to what degree such a delivery system is even realistic for many reasons other than...
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