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Gautam | Jan 31 2007
soft bodied robots
Haven't you got bored of the hard bodied robots available? If yes then a new class of soft bodied robots is being developed by Tufts University researchers which will aid in advancements in the areas of space exploration and medicine. A combination of..
Naveen | Jan 31 2007
ugobes pleo
Are you looking out to own something from Jurassic epoch? Well, most of you might be drooling over the Wowwee robot for past few days, here is some good news for those who are awaiting the dinosaur...oh! I mean Ugobe's Pleo. The video below shows the...
Vishal | Jan 30 2007
robotic arm
The crazy folks who developed Wii Murder Bot earlier are making waves once again with their new industrial-arm robot. Now, they are all set to flail a person in the racing seat at a solid pace. The person is strapped into the robotic arm that boasts a..
Vishal | Jan 29 2007
biped robot
I used to think of robots as useless preprogrammed machines whose behavior was preplanned but after acquainting with this robot, my perception changed altogether. This bipedal walking robot prepared by Mike Smyth appears like a mesh of wires..
Anupam | Jan 29 2007
flexirobots
When we talk about Robots the thing that first comes into our mind is a heavy and bulky piece of metal that can perform some human like activities but not in a human-like manner. Well now some Researchers at the Tufts University are planning what..
Vishal | Jan 27 2007
wowwee1
WowWee's MS Media robot is cute little robot capable of delivering multimedia content. The bot was displayed at CES 2007. This small toy like machine has a 1.9-inch(176 x 132px) color LCD screen integrated on its chest. You can enjoy listening..
Anupam | Jan 27 2007
wiibot1
Nintendo lovers will love to see some new applications of their Wiimote. Aaron Rasmussen and his friend Brian have managed to develop a system to control a KR16 industrial arm using no more than a Laptop and some home developed code. The...
Anupam | Jan 27 2007
rbt
Singapore's Defense Science and Technology Agency has launched a new contest to build a robot that can operate autonomously in urban warfare conditions. The aim of the organization is a robot that can search and destroy suspicious human targets...
Anupam | Jan 25 2007
land walker
A Japanese Engineer named Masaaki Nagumo has developed a real life Land Walker. You must have seen such devices bearing a name APU in Hollywood's Sci-Fi movie, The Matrix. This is 3.4-meter tall, two-legged robot and has been named Land Walker by..
Anupam | Jan 25 2007
sniffer robot
Scientists have always wanted to keep humans away from hazardous tasks such as detecting bombs, gas leaks and drugs. For this the only way out is to have sniffer robots that can smell things out. Yet since the technology is not as advanced as it..