Robotic Blogs

Talk about cool robots! Robhatah's Manus-I is humanoid soccer-playing robot with a couple of international victories under its belt, with functionality that includes visual-tracking and walking towards colored targets, dynamic walking, obstacle avoidance, climbing stairs, and getting...

A robot that recognises up to 10 faces and understands 10,000 words is being offered to Japanese consumers looking for a high-tech helper in the house.The one-metre tall Wakamaru robot is being marketed as a mechanical house-sitter and secretary.Japanese manufacturer Mitsubishi Heavy...

LONDON, England (CNN) -- The three newest inhabitants at the London Aquarium move like all others in nearby tanks, but the brightly colored fish are robots.Created by robotics experts from Essex University, east of London, the creatures move around the tank like real fish, but unlike...

Robots have proven to outperform humans when it comes to steadiness, accuracy and repeatability. With doctors growing increasingly dependant on robots to deliver better surgical results and fewer side effects - robotic doctors are exploring new avenues.University of Pennysilvania...

Scientists in the US have created a robotic arm that can be controlled by thought alone.Developed at the University of Pittsburgh, it has a fully mobile shoulder and elbow and a gripper that works like a hand.In early tests, monkeys had tiny probes inserted into their brains and...

PRIMM, Nevada (AP) -- Four robotic vehicles finished a Pentagon-sponsored race across the Mojave desert Saturday and achieved a technological milestone by conquering steep drop-offs, obstacles and tunnels over a rugged 132-mile course without a single human command.The vehicles,...

A robot designed by scientists at the University of the West of England will generate its own power by eating flies attracted to its human waste cargo.EcoBot II digests the flies in eight special fuel cells.The point behind the experiment is to create "release and forget" roving...

Alright. This is one really good humanoid.ASIMO is able to walk in a manner which closely resembles that of a human being. Research and development on this project began in 1986 with millions spent on research and development. It walks in a smooth fashion which closely resembles...

Alright. I wont make u guess. The female in the pic is a robot.Unbelievable? She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to turn and react in a human-like manner.She can flutter her eyelids and move her hands like a...

Someone woke up with a brilliant idea and the result is this. A ballroom dancing robot. It sure knows a step or two and can dance pretty well.It cant fully replace girls as yet - but its a good start, isnt it?Btw... where are the legs? !!!via Engad...

So... SONY thought you could do with some fun. And they came up with a neat product - the interactive and self learning AIBO. Its probably the best robotic dog u can get... but oh well, the real ones are just too loving to be replaced by motors, DSPs and cheap LEDs in the centuries...

Thats right. We really shouldnt be spending our lives doing those boring houseworks. Afterall, arent robots supposed to make our lives better? Here's a robotic floor cleaner (sush... they say its a vacuum cleaner. I promise you, its not.) hard at work - so you can... well... rel...

The human washing machine pictured here looks like the ultimate fullbody spa. Its a new robotic lifter for the bedridden. The user can control the lifting robot with a remote and the device can move and place the user wherever s/he needs. Sensors make sure that the user is securely...

Packbot is a war tested military robot, that a soldier can carry in his backpack.PackBot was first used by US ground troops in Afghanistan in 2002 to help clear caves and bunkers, search buildings and cross live anti-personnel minefields. They were used again in 2003 in Iraq in urban...

You really, really do not want to put robots in charge of arresting people. The Koreans don’t seem to mind though.via Engad...

Which would you rather have come to your hospital room: a doctor you’ve never met before, or a robot that lets you interact with your personal physician? A new study indicates that many patients would prefer the robot they know to the human they don’t know.The study, conducted by...

Some doctors and engineers are also developing prosthetic (bionic) limbs that use robotic mechanisms. Dr. David Gow, of the Prosthetics Research and Development Team at Princess Margaret Rose Orthopaedic Hospital, made the first bionic arm called the Edinburgh Modular Arm System...

The da Vinci Surgical System consists of an ergonomically designed surgeon’s console, a patient-side cart with four interactive robotic arms, the high-performance InSite® Vision System and proprietary EndoWrist® Instruments. Powered by state-of-the-art robotic technology, the surgeon’s...

Why spend days chipping away at a granite block when you can have a robot do ninety percent of the work for you? Studio Roc offers up its robots, computer controlled milling machines that can do the same amount of work in a matter of hours. They use either laser-scans of an original...

Nothing new to us. Tireless, precision robots hard at work. No loo breaks. No complaints. 24/7 work. What do we get? Beautiful luxury cars !When doing a job, robots can do many things faster than humans. Robots do not need to be paid, eat, drink, or go to the bathroom like people....

As the rovers keep journeying across the surface of Mars, scientists are busy churning out journal articles that herald the new discoveries revealed by their robot geologist partners.via N...

People are interested in places that are sometimes full of danger, like outer space, or the deep ocean. But when they can not go there themselves, they make robots that can go there. The robots are able to carry cameras and other instruments so that they can collect information and...

The first modern industrial robots were probably the "Unimates", created by George Devol and Joe Engleberger in the 1950's and 60's. Engleberger started the first robotics company, called "Unimation", and has been called the "father of robotics."The person on the right is Joe Englebergervia...

General Electric Walking Truck. A human controlled the stepping of this robot by pushing pedals with his feet. The complicated coordination of movements within a leg and between different legs during stepping was controlled by a computer (from Wickelgren, 1996).via Adam's Robot ...

One of the first robots was the clepsydra or water clock, which was made in 250 B.C. It was created by Ctesibius of Alexandria, a Greek physicist and inventor. The earliest remote control vehicles were built by Nikola Tesla in the 1890's. Tesla is best known as the inventor of AC...

The word "robotics" also comes from science fiction - it first appeared in the short story "Runaround" (1942) by Isaac Asimov. This story was later included in Asimov's famous book "I, Robot." The robot stories of Isaac Asimov also introduced the idea of a "positronic brain" (used...

The word "Robot" comes from the 1921 play "R.U.R." (Rossum's Universal Robots) by the Czech writer Karel Capek (pronounced "chop'ek"). "Robot" comes from the Czech word "robota", meaning "forced labor." Karel Capek died just after the German invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, before...