Friday, 13 March 2009

Cargonaut Flying Robot Concept Is Your Personal Air-Courier

Here’s a novel concept that manages to merge old tech with new, in a very exciting and beneficial way. Called the Cargonaut, it is essentially a flying robotic servant that will courier everything from letters, to luggage, to groceries across town for you to help lighten your load.

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Monday, 6 October 2008

Video: Woody’s Pumpkin Creep Will Traumatize Trick Or Treaters

I’m grateful I haven’t run into this in the dark! A control electrician called Woody has used his talents to put together an altogether terrifying robotic pumpkin. The creature rapidly grows from a mere pumpkin on the ground to a man-like monster within seconds, its eyes glowing red to the accompaniment of deathly gut-churning growls.

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Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Video: Japanese Robot Eats Bikes For Breakfast

Each day in Tokyo, over 700,000 people ride their bikes to catch the morning train and this creates a problem. Where do you store all those bikes? Well, thanks to Japanese ingenuity and their skills in robotics, they’ve come up with a robot that quickly and efficiently parks them in underground storage facilities (see video below – in English).

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Wednesday, 3 September 2008

Video: Amazing Robotic Jellyfish Swims Through The…Air.

The engineers over at Festo have produced an incredible robo-jellyfish they like to call AirJelly, which, unlike its ocean cousins, would rather fly than swim. The impressive creature is filled with helium and uses two lithium-ion polymer batteries to power its tentacles. The elegant movements are almost hypnotic.

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Tuesday, 29 July 2008

Video: Murata Boy Robot Can Ride A Bicycle Better Than You



Murata Boy, the talented robotic offspring of Murata Manufacturing has been captured on video doing his thing. He likes to go for rides on his bicycle and I must say, does so better than us mere mortals can manage. He can keep his balance at really low speeds and can even avoid obstacles in his path.


The boy robot has been fitted with a gyro sensor that can detect inclination and angular velocity. This information is fed to a computer that signals counter actions to restore balance. A sensor in his chest measures distance.


It is hoped that this technology could someday be used in disaster zones or on construction sites and have the ability to lift heavy loads.

I wonder how long it will be before he’s fitted with a Sat Nav unit and sent out to deliver your paper or pizza?



Sources:
Botropolis
LiveLeak
msnbc (2005)