Remember the single-shot rubber band guns we played with as kids? Well, those are no competition for this awesome rubber-band-shooting robot built by Osamu Kanda. This robot has a seat for someone to sit and fire the gatling-style gun with 360 rounds of ammo, all while protected behind the machine’s facade. Oh, the machine also [...]
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by Jon | Tags: gatling gun, Osamu Kanda, robot, rubber band gun, rubber bands, weaponry
Posted in robotics
Wow. This robot can really dance, and its moves are amazingly fluid. The MANOI PF01, which stands 40-inches tall and can be purchased for $1500. Click here to watch the video
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by Jon | Tags: dance, Dancing Robot, Manoi, robot, robotics
Posted in music, robotics
The Robot Laboratory “RoboCluster” of Southern University of Denmark has developed a bluetooth Wiimote-controlled lawn mower. The mower is also capable of autonomous mowing once the mower plots the perimeter of the mowing area. Click here to watch the video
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by Jon | Tags: automation, autonomous control, Bluetooth, hack, lawn mower, Nintendo Wii, RoboCluster, Southern University of Denmark, Wiimote
Posted in robotics
Check out this fascinating hexapod robot by Kåre Halvorsen aka Zenta. The movement looks flawless. A-Pod is an ant inspired hexapod robot with a 2 DOF abdomen (tail), a 3 DOF head with large mandibles. 6 legs with 3 DOF each. Total 25 servos. This video demonstrates body movement and mandible control. I still have [...]
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by Jon | Tags: ant, hexapod, Kåre Halvorsen, Lies, robot, robotics, Trifonic, Zenta
Posted in robotics
Isn’t it great to see robots put to use performing tasks that are often far too complex for us humans to perform — the game of “Rock Paper Scissors”, for example. In the video below, BERTI, a fully automated Robotic Torso, goes through his paces prior to appearing at the Science Museum during February 2009. [...]
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by Jon | Tags: BERTI RT-1, robot, robotics, Rock Paper Scissors, Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock
Posted in robotics
This is just so cool: Researchers at the university controlled the movement of beetle wings and some other parts using radio signals sent to the six electrodes on its brain and muscles. They equipped the beetle with a module incorporating a circuit to send signals to the electrodes, wireless circuit, microcontroller and battery. The university [...]
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by Jon | Tags: beetles, insects, military surveillance, radio-controlled, surveillance
Posted in robotics
Mega Man 9 Release Dates: Wiiware: Sept 22, 2008, PSN: Sept 25, 2008, XBLA: Oct 1, 2008 The first original series Mega Man title in eleven years was released yesterday via download on Nintendo’s Wiiware channel. PSN and XBLA versions are to follow later this week and next week. A friend of mine downloaded this as [...]
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by | Tags: Capcom, Mega Man, Mega Man 9, PSN, Wii, Wiiware, XBLA
Posted in games, ps3, robotics, Wii, xbox 360
NuVation has developed an air-hockey-playing-robot that is actually pretty good and getting better. NuVation received the People’s Choice Award at Freescale Technology Forum 2008. Check out the robot in action below.
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by Jon | Tags: air hockey, nuvation, robot
Posted in robotics
The folks at BattleBricks put together this ingenious iPhone remote-controlled robot.
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by Jon | Tags: iphone, lego, robotics
Posted in hack, iphone, lego, robotics
This robot developed by roboticists at the University of Pennsylvania can recognize its various parts and reassemble itself. Interesting technology. [via MAKE and NewScientist]
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by Jon | Tags: Self-assembling robot
Posted in robotics
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