Sand Flea is an 11-lb robot with one trick up its sleeve: Normally it drives like an RC car, but when it needs to it can jump 30 feet into the air. An onboard stabilization system keeps it oriented during flight to improve the view from the video uplink and to control landings. Current developmen...
During the time John P. and Cali Lewis spent in Tokyo, they saw robots. Actually, that's quite the understatement... they saw TONS of robots!
"Cathy Hutchinson hasn't been able to move her body for the past 15 years. But thanks to a brain implant from a Brown University team of neuroscientists, she's recently been able to pick up a bottle of coffee on her own by controlling a robotic arm with her mind...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur...
This video shows versions of DARPA and Boston Dynamics robots climbing stairs, walking on a treadmill and doing pushups. A modified platform resembling these robots is expected to be used as government-funded equipment (GFE) for performers in Tracks B and C of the DARPA Robotics Challenge (www.da...
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Boston Dynamics just released a new video of the Big Dog on ice and snow, and also demoing its walking gait.
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Honda's human-shaped robot can now run faster, balance itself on uneven surfaces, hop on one foot and pour a drink. Some of its technology may even be used to help out with clean-up operations at the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant. Honda's demonstration of the revamped "Asimo" on Tuesday at its...
www.ted.com In his lab at Penn, Vijay Kumar and his team build flying quadrotors, small, agile robots that swarm, sense each other, and form ad hoc teams -- for construction, surveying disasters and far more.TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Confere...
Music video by Kate Ryan performing "Robots". (C)2012 ARS Entertainment Belgium (A Division Of Universal Music Belgium). kateryan.be Buy @ iTunes smarturl.it Directed by Tim Fox / CultLovesYou.
Forget the zombie apocalypse--the real threat is an imminent Robopocalypse, a robot uprising! We at Epipheo care about your survival. That's why we interviewed Daniel H. Wilson to find out exactly how to survive a robot uprising. Daniel is the world's foremost authority on the subject and NY Time...
On this edition of Robot News, we look at a couple of homemade robots that can do such amazing things as pet your cat and retract into a ball. SkyNet remains a possibility! For more from Robot News, go here: www.g4tv.com
Cathy Hutchinson has been unable to move her own arms or legs for 15 years. But using the most advanced brain-machine interface ever developed, she can steer a robotic arm towards a bottle, pick it up, and drink her morning coffee. The interface includes a sensor implanted in Cathy's brain, which...
The coolest robots exhibited at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in St. Paul, Minn. Read more robot news: spectrum.ieee.org
Links: ashow.zefrank.com PetMan www.youtube.com Big Dog : www.youtube.com Little Dog : www.youtube.com Sand Flea Jumping Robot : www.youtube.com Boston Dynamics Rise : www.youtube.com Jules AI Bot : www.youtube.com Jesse Schell's talk : fora.tv Geoffrey Miller's article : seedmagazine.com
www.ted.com Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.TEDTalks is a daily video po...
