Many people find spiders terrifying, but they have a convenient shape for a robot as many legs radiating from a central core gives a mobile robot stability. Wired has a gallery of 13 robotic spiders built for all kinds...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/04/12/robot-spiders/Intelligent Systems Informatics Lab at Tokyo University has developed a robot that performs basic journalistic functions: The robot detects changes in its surroundings, decides if they are relevant, and then takes pic...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/03/24/robot-journalist-seeks-stories-interviews-people-takes-photographs-publishes-stories/[caption id="attachment_29279" align="aligncenter" width="411" caption="Photo: GM/NASA"][/caption] This week's developments in technological advances, like General Motors and NASA's Robonaut2 (cleverly and deviously n...
https://www.neatorama.com/2010/02/05/singularity-watch-inching-closer/(YouTube Link) The Bristol Robotics Laboratory at the University of Bristol, UK has built a robot that senses obstacles not with cameras, but sensitive whiskers at the front end: Researchers at the University of Br...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/11/28/scratchbot-uses-whiskers-to-maneuver-in-the-dark/Photo: flickr user Ang & Nick Botropolis (a rob... ...ctures of 10 Jack-O-Lanterns modeled to look like robots . Pictured above is Punk-O-Tron, a work by flickr...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/10/13/10-robot-jack-o-lanterns/Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédér... ...e Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne programmed robots to move around an area, looking for particular ri... ...to flash a light. This light attracted the other robots , leading them toward the food source. When the p... ...source. When the program was...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/20/the-robopocalypse-approaches-robots-learn-to-lie/A rescue robot that picks up victims and takes them inside of itself. What could possibly go wrong? The Robocue is operated by the Tokyo Fire Department and used to extract people from areas where rescue workers...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/11/a-human-extracting-rescue-robot/(Links open in a new browser window/tab) Great Video Explaining How A Vehicle's Differential Works It's an old documentary- and it explains how it works so well with models and simple examples. I'm left f...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/06/videosift-clips-of-the-week-34/Robots that served in Afghanistan by remotely detonating... ...is particularly useful for gas fires. The three robots are the Talon, a small, manoeuvrable machine with... ...is a heavy-duty digger that removes debris. The robots
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/29/bomb-detonators-become-robot-firefighters/Since scientists are out to kill us again, what wi... ...are out to kill us again, what with flesh-eating robots , ethicists and roboticists have called for revisi... ...million American households. The next generation robots will be more sophisticated and are expected to pr... ...says Chen, it may be time to...
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/07/22/roboticists-argue-for-robot-system-of-ethics/
