If you’re like most Americans, you’re probably too lazy to walk anywhere… let alone walk your kid to school. And in the era where wars are fought by remote control and intelligence is gained against our enemy using unmanned crafts from thousands of miles away,…
Kogoro Kurata’s childhood dream was to grow up and take over the world. No not really, but Tokyo, Japan based artist Kurata did grow up watching an overdose inducing amount of manga and science fiction films. His father was also a blacksmith who taught him how to…
So often in our life, science imitates nature and this newest robotic invention is no exception. The cleverly named Dragonfly is designed to mimic, you guessed it, a dragonfly. And like it's living counterpart, this soon-to-be creation can hover in place as well as…
Meet CIROS, a robot that will gladly make you a salad. It might take twice as long as its human counterpart, but c’mon give the thing a break... it’s a robot... that can make a salad and do other chores too. Introduced only about a week ago at Robot World…
Halloween is around the corner and if you’d like a one armed robot to do your pumpkin carving for you then the PunkinboT is for you. In the meantime there is only one prototype available, created by Brian and Alex VanDiepenbos, a father and son team based in…
The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) has yielded a new autonomous robot named Pet-Proto, and it is capable of walking, dodging, and jumping through hostile environments. Why make such a metal giant, you ask? The primary function of the DRC is to "develop ground…
Say the word “Pop” and open up, as the Popinator uses sensitive audio receivers to discern the source of the sound and then catapults a kernel of popcorn toward the mouth! While modern mechanics and their uses continue to expand, it is this type of…
Boston Dynamic and DARPA’s Legged Squad Support System (LS3) “Pack Mule” is semi-autonomous and can carry 400 pounds of gear through tumultuous terrain. Holy Cyborg Bull, Batman! The enemy may have you surrounded, but DARPA is trying to make it so that a…
Bring on the Bot building Multiplo kits that anyone can use to form fun and roving open source robots for affordable prices. The Multiplo makers wanted to be able to teach robotics at any level, school, or age group and make them not just easy to build but…
Jellyfish are a wonder of nature. They are extremely simple creatures, and yet there's something about their appearance and motion that has always mesmerized people. Now they are serving as inspiration for a group of Harvard Scientists. Earlier this month, a…
Avadhut Deshmukh has hacked an Arduino robot so that it will wheel around a functioning laptop and respond to commands given from an iPhone. And that’s not all! When you can combine peripherals on the PC itself, the abilities of the semi-intelligent laptop…
The University of Tokyo is working on enhancing high-speed human-robot cooperation capabilities, and so they have given us Janken, the robot that has yet to lose a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors. The Ishikawa Oku Lab at the school in Japan has built a…