Mr. Spike and Mrs. Candy are best friends of 13-year-old bedridden Achim Nurse. No, they are not her parents but a pair of robots that help him to keep up with his studies and friends. Achim controls the two robots with the help of a video game console type remote to communicate with his teacher [...]
Giving a fillip to the Star War saga, droids made by MIT undergrads are finally making their presence at the ISS. Developed in collaboration with NASA and DoD, the first prototype of the droid was tested at NASA’s KC-135 reduced gravity aircraft and is now exploring the realms of the space station. The little droids [...]
Joshua v0.1.3a, latest software package for the autonomous chess-playing robot, is out. The latest software package runs on a computer to control the robot’s stepper motors that maneuvers a manipulator for all chess moves. Joshua may not compete with the Deep Blue or even Kasparov, but can at least engage humans or play with itself [...]
Apparently, grass cutting will hold little charm with X-Box hovering over your mind half the day and the other half gobbled up PDAs, PMPs and other fascinating gadgets. Still, the grass need to be trimmed so that you can lie down to enjoy the winter sun with iPod plugged into your ears. Don’t worry, the [...]
The miniature MEMSCAP robots might lose their way into the complex human body, but these new tiny bots created by a few European researchers would definitely rule our inner self by crawling right into the gut. The paddle worm inspired robots simply navigate human intestines and investigate via cameras providing accurate information to doctors. The [...]
If we can create dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, bacteria size tiny bots too are possible. Realizing its dream of power of a small world, MEMSCAP has successfully created an army of world’s tiniest robots under its MUMPs program. The miniature robots are so small that 200 of them could fit on the tip of your [...]
Probably, it’s the right time to lay the foundation of Zion, the last free human city as depicted in the Matrix, with robots finally made to mimic human touch. The new robotic sensors invented by researchers at the University of Nebraska replicate the human sense of touch. The sensor devised with the help of nanotechnology [...]
Soccer fever has gripped robots too and perhaps, you would soon see them dribbling, kicking and drooling on the field. Team Osaka has already started preparing the team and VisiON TRYZ is the first player boasting of his soccer skills. The 49.5 cm tall walking robot weighs 2.9 kg and can easily recognize a ball [...]
These machines have already shown their caliber to conquer the land, though we have still not unleashed the chains allowing them to do so in the real sense, and now they are ready to flex their muscles underwater, but with a purpose. An entire fleet of robots is ready to sieve the entire Monterey Bay [...]
Ultimately, comic world has started intruding the real world. The Land walker is a giant example in both size and engineering. This dazzling giant robotic suit weighing one ton is controlled by one person from a real cockpit. This 10 feet weird can walk back and forth and sideway and can run with the speed [...]