Neill Blomkamp also directed a short film called Tempbot. Although it has a pretty cool robot, it’s more of a drama than a sci-fi. Check it out below. Lynda Carter makes a guest appearance. Click here to watch the video
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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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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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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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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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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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