Robotics

As of late, Japan has been looking at how robots can solve some social problems, in addition to the labor that they are currently being developed for. “Life/Machine – Scenes From A Roboted Life” is a project to explore the interaction between humans and robots in a domestic living space, and how they might coexist in an efficient symbiosis. The ...

We’ve seen robots made for both blue-collar duties and military jobs, but not one that can truly do both. The HRP-3 Promet Mk-II can bypass heavy rains and maintain a basic rescuing operation, yet showed off its softer side at the Kawada Industries press conference today. Promet took the opportunity to display his skills with a screwdriver, screwing in some ...

Vision Robotics’, a company who has been on the cutting edge of designing agricultural robotics, has finally released some 3D-ish renderings of what they have in mind for the future of farming. To take the jobs of an indeterminate number of immigrants, they present their Fruit-Picking Robot. In the past, mechanical farm help didn’t make things much faster than human ...

Robots just keep getting more and more intelligent. Rogun is a bot that can become familiarized with faces, while acting as a babysitter / security guard of your home. Rogun will wonder around your house, and play with your kids while broadcasting video to keep an eye on them. Rogun also acts as a home security system. If someone comes ...

The RoboDS is an open robot platform for the Nintendo DS. The robot is controlled via the DS’s WiFi connection using a web browser interface. The jobs that RoboDS can accomplish are endless. Find a wireless camera, and you can wirelessly keep a close watch on your home. To get the RoboDS working you’ll also need to get the DSerial2, ...

Tomotaka Takahashi realized a crucial fact about robotics that most have not caught onto. The lack of female bots. The result of his thinking evolved into FT, or Female Type, the girl robot. To nail down that feminine strut, Takahashi consulted with professional models on how to give FT a feminine flare. Her body contains 23 motors and 2 gyroscopes, ...

Marriage is a beautiful thing. Especially between a robot and a man. And even more especially when the robot is carrying the man soldier bride? Ok, well we tried to make this image funny, but in all seriousness, it’s great to see a robot in action, rather than lifting human sized bags of sand dummies. This particular robot, named Bear, ...

C-3PO might be the world’s most emotional (but fictional) robot ever, but Reddy the “real” emotional robot can contort its face to display a pretty broad range of emotions. Creater’s RoboMotio are taking Reddy with a grain of salt, holding off on giving the emoto-robo any legs, just in case it gets too emotional and happens to run off. Reddy’s ...

Murata Boy is one impressive little bicycling bot. No matter how thin of a surface hes on, he never falls, even when he’s at a complete stop! Murata Boy has absolutely no training wheels or strings attached to help with his balancing act, but relies completely on a gyroscope located underneath the seat, which calculates all of the slight angle ...

Osaka University’s Graduate School of Engineering has unveiled their new creation, the CB2, a baby humanoid. CB2 is programed to act like a 1-2 year old baby. Complete with an infant like fascination with the world and realistic attempts at crawling. But talk about an awkward photo, look at where that guys hand is on the baby bot and the ...