By RB1 & filed under Exoskeleton, Medical.
Richard Van As, a master carpenter from Johannesburg, South Africa, decided to make a set of mechanical fingers. He’d lost four of the fingers on his right hand in an unfortunate work accident. As a tradesman, having a disabled hand is a big professional detriment, so he decided that he would use the tools available […]
By RB1 & filed under Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
The Wyss Institute at Harvard just unveiled the smallest robot capable of flight. The “RoboBee” weighs less than a gram and can steer, hover and take off by flapping its wings more than 120 time per second. As shown in the video below, it’s quite stable and maneuvers well using its electric muscles to flap its wings. […]
By RB1 & filed under Entertainment, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Nothing says “I love you” better than a robot, right? That’s exactly what Jason thought when he proposed to his girlfriend Christina. Did she say “Yes!”?. Watch the video below to find out. We believe there are many cheesy ways of proposing but we are particularly fond of the ones which use robots. Have you ever used robots to […]
By RB1 & filed under Humanoids, Military.
PETMAN, the biped humanoid from Boston Dynamics, recently got to do its job: to test military clothing and equipment. As seen in the video below, the robot was given some clothes and equipment to test… and it did just that. It is very interesting to see the robot walk and move effortlessly. What do you think of this kind of […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Cloud Robotics, Competitions, RobotShop.
The Global Cloud Robotics Hackathon 2013 is currently taking place. The hacking marathon where participants compete to create the best cloud monitoring robotic application started on April 6th and will be ending on the 14th of the same month. So far 29 teams from all around the world are hard at work as shown on the hackathon […]
By Mario Tremblay & filed under Cloud Robotics, Industry, RobotShop.
Cloud robotics is proving to be the most natural and efficient way to create and manage modern robotics technology. Robots are no longer limited to their physical, onboard components, instead, they are able to access an ever-broadening array of Internet resources. Last year, I gave an interview with RoboticsTrends.com on the state of cloud robotics today and […]
By RB1 & filed under Unmanned Aerial Vehicles.
Festo, the german automation company, recently unveiled its latest creation: BionicOpter, a robotic dragonfly. This new robot emulates the complex flight technique of a dragonfly and is capable of high manoeuvrability as shown in the video below. Once again, Festo uses biomimicry to create quite an elegant and capable robot. This robot uses a rather clever design and features a very ingenious mechanism, […]
By Carlos Asmat & filed under Cloud Robotics, RobotShop.
MyRobots.com is introducing Alerts! Effective immediately, you can now define alerts for all your robots so they can react to their environment and signal you if there is anything worth your attention. What is an alert? In MyRobots.com terms, an alert is a message sent once a certain condition is reached by your robot’s sensors. […]
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