All the stories tagged with robot
Fujitsu ENON robot
10/30/2009, Fujitsu’s ENON (Exciting Nova On Network) robot is now back and improved, where its Service Type Robot’s arm mechanisms has been changed from 4 to 5 DOF, doing so while lowering the overall size and weight to a mere 50kg. [...]
Vstone810 robot
10/29/2009, Team Osaka has create tiny robots that will qualify for the Teen Size league, where each of these robots will stand no shorter than 80cm tall, tipping the scales at 7.5kg each while coming with a total of 22 DOF. [...]
ROPID robot set to entertain
10/28/2009, The ROPID (short for a combination of Robot and Rapid) is touted to be able to “run” and turn quickly in place, responding to verbal commands as well thanks to Raytron’s BSRM01-01E voice recognition chip embedded within. Capable of clearing [...]
PetMan robot is the bomb
10/26/2009, Remember the BigDog quadruped robot that doesn’t seem to be fazed despite getting kicked from the side while being able to maintain its balance? The very same brains behind BigDog have come up with PetMan, where this bipedal version will [...]
Amio bipedal robot
10/25/2009, Robots seem to get more and more commonplace these days, and AIM Lab’s Amio was specially developed to be a true bipedal humanoid robot that comes with three dozen DOFs, standing proud at 150cm tall while bearing a weight that [...]
Robotic Hand Can Sense Touch
10/25/2009, We’ve all seen Darth Vader hack of Luke Skywalker’s hand in dramatic fashion, which results in Luke getting a prosthetic hand in the end. Are we moving closer towards such technology? It certainly seems so. Researchers are the Lund University [...]
Swine Flu Robot Is Creepy
10/25/2009, Lots of people around the world are still worried about swine flu, and it’s good to see that medical experts around the globe are busy trying to see what they can do to tackle the issue. One of the things [...]
Pleo resurrected
10/23/2009, Remember the Pleo robotic dinosaur that offered a whole new way to interact with your toys as it comes with sensors and AI that is able to be soothed whenever you pet it? Well, it might have gone extinct a [...]
Subaru AV-S1 robot cleans up after you
10/23/2009, Just when you thought that Subaru made nothing but high-powered rally cars, they have come up with the AV-S1 robot that is able to clean up to 3,000 m²/hour – basically triple that of their human counterparts. Best of all [...]
Meka Robotics Simon robot
10/21/2009, Meka Robotics has unveiled the Simon robot that comes with “ears” which resemble antennae, moving around and changing color accordingly. He does look pretty cute and might tug at your heartstrings, making us wonder whether he is more appropriate to [...]
Robotic patient with H1N1 symptoms
10/21/2009, Those who attended the Security & Safety Trade Expo (RISCON) in Tokyo might have caught a whiff of this special robotic patient who actually exhibits the known symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus, where it was specially developed to be [...]
Animal-inspired robotic design
10/20/2009, Check out the graceful flow of this cheetah-inspired robot – it definitely looks like some sort of Transformers character, and we won’t be surprised if it will perform admirably. After all, Robotic designer Sangbae Kim at the Massachusetts Institute of [...]
Delivery Robot takes no tips
10/20/2009, Hmmm, we’re not sure whether people would ever do away with the human touch when it comes to the service line, which means the Delivery Robot might never find any form of employment. If the opposite happens, however, it would [...]
