All the stories tagged with: robotics
Rescue robots could be lifesavers in fires
08/12/2011, Technology is wonderful if it is applied in the correct manner, and here we are with rescue robots which are programmed to help evacuate people from a burning building. Granted, they are small and extremely mobile, that means it cannot [...]
Karotz peeps out from the FCC fields
08/08/2011, Remember when we reported slightly more than a week ago that Mindscape decided to kill off the Nabaztag desktop accessory? Well, I would say that it was inevitable in some way or another – after all, how many people do [...]
RoboCar sports Kinect sensor
08/05/2011, It seems as though the Kinect is not meant just for gaming purposes while making you sweat, as some of the smarter folks out there have managed to take the Kinect and “re-applied” it to other mechanical lifeforms – such [...]
Qbo controlled via hand signals
08/04/2011, Robots tend to be controlled remotely, but how many of them will actually respond to your hand signals? This modified Qbo robot from TheCorpora has been tinkered with by the company’s researchers, perhaps they received inspiration from Star Wars and [...]
Wrist rehabilitation robot assists the paralyzed
08/02/2011, We talked about the RIBA II healthcare robot which hails from Japan (seriously, most of the cool robots seem to come from the Land of the Rising Sun – after all, they’re the ones who delivered Transformers to use, no?), [...]
SmartBird from Festo flies like a real bird
08/02/2011, We caught sight of the Festo SmartBird back in March this year, where said robot boasted of extremely realistic wing movements and flight motion, even going so far as to turn its head in order to steer. Well, Markus Fischer [...]
Robot plays Dance Dance Revolution
08/01/2011, You know how mad some players can get when it comes to Dance Dance Revolution, that they play a couple of games simultaneously by moving all over the sensor pads like magic? Well, robots can dance, too, but don’t expect [...]
Swarm robots help quadrotor land
07/29/2011, Do you love robots, especially in science fiction movies where they swarm all over the place like cockroaches, seemingly in an orderly form of anarchy. Well, it is more real than you imagine as you can see from the robot [...]
Surgical Robot has force feedback system, plays no games
07/25/2011, Played Trauma Center on the Nintendo DS before? That was one of the earliest hit titles on the portable game console which literally had my hands sweating as I had to “operate” on the patient with my stylus, and many [...]
Wall-E hack recognizes voices, tracks objects and snaps photos
07/25/2011, I remember coming across Wall-E in the cinema a few years ago, boy was that robot cute or what! This little critter with a pet cockroach for a friend certainly tugged at the heartstrings, especially when he fell head over [...]
Robotic tentacles ready to invade the world
07/22/2011, Remember War of the Worlds? Well, think a robotic version of the scenario, and you might have robotic tentacles snaking their way all over the place. It seems that such robo-octopus tentacles are now ready for action, thanks to scientists [...]
Spherical robot helps detect radioactivity in pipes
07/21/2011, One great thing about robots is this – they never tire out, and are impervious to radioactivity – making it possible for them to work in hazardous environments for extended periods of time without experiencing fatigue. This tiny spherical robot [...]
Robotic hand looks realistic, shakes like the real deal, too
07/21/2011, The SQUSE robot hand has been around for quite some time already, dating all the way to 2009 – and in today’s fast paced world, that is quite a long time. Well, no idea on whether improvements have been incorporated [...]
