Pancake Robot Takes Over Breakfast
With this wonderfully geeky creation, we’re one step closer to having hassle-free pancakes whenever we want.
DARPA Presents Perfected Nano Hummingbird
It may sound like a far-fetched plot element in a box-office-smashing war movie, but it’s not: This hummingbird-shaped robot, with a weight inferior to that of an AA battery and an incorporated surveillance camera, is actually DARPA’s latest plaything.
New Edubot Gets Creepy Crawly Look
While most people go about their workaday worlds don’t give much thought to what the next robot is going to look like or do, science still spends quite a bit of time making new robots and trying to make the better.
Gravity Defying Robot
You might have seen insects and reptiles crawling on walls and defying gravity. Now be prepared to see a man made creation do the very same thing. You could call it a breakthrough technology where a robot uses supersonic air jets to stick to just about any kind of surface …
DARwIn-OP Open Sourced Robot
The launch of the DARwIn-OP open sourced robot by Dennis Hong’s RoMeLa group at Virginia Tech marks an important milestone in the evolution of robots.
ReCon 6.0 Programmable Rover: Toys Don’t Get Any Smarter than This
The Recon 6.0 Programmable Rover from Thinkgeek is one hell of a toy with a multitude of possibilities – if you can call it that. The rover is a toy, robot and tool combo wrapped in a body which resembles a certain adorable little guy from Pixar.
Intelligent Rubik’s Solving Robot
My brain is somewhat primitive when it comes to technology; most of our brains are probably are, despite us all being dependent on it. We can’t understand how these machines function; we don’t know what it is about them that allows them to complete the tasks the way that they …
Robotic Wheelchair Automatically Follows Human Companion
The basic difficulty with the wheelchair’s operation and movement control has been made surpisingly simple through the introduction of the Robotic Wheelchair, a design of the Saitama University’s Human-Robot Interaction Center.
Lego Robot Can Follow You Upstairs
I always thought of wheeled robots as a bit of a non-threat. I mean at the end of the day all you need to do is find a staircase and hope that they can’t bring the whole building down.
Terminator-esq Learning Robot Being Developed in Germany
Germany’s Bielefeld University has developed a “learning” robot attached to arms big enough to rip the head off of old Arnie Schwarzenegger. The robot has the look of a Terminator, itself, and has the ability to identify, label, grasp and move a variety of things in its reach.