Category: Robots
Anty the "huggy" robot
Resembling a somewhat alarming Muppet, Anty is a robot designed to make sick children happier, probably because however crappy their lives may be, at least they've got better noses. Anty has sensors for vision, audio and touch, and demonstrates…
Robo-salamander shows secrets of robolution
It's hard to say just how close a resemblance the so-called robo-salamander bears to its reptilian namesake, but its purpose is to provide insight into the workings of evolution. By examining how it swims, slithers and crawls, a Franco-Swiss…
Giraffe Video Conferencing Robot
While videoconferencing theoretically can save thousands of dollars per meeting and cut down on unnecessary travel in a big way, good videoconferencing hardware is prohibitively expensive still and bad hardware, such as the average (or even above-average) webcam is…
Spy Cye takes robot voyeurism to the next level
If you thought the Net Tansor was already a bridge too far, the Spy Cye will take you all the way across the Channel. Essentially a webcam on wheels which you can control over the web, the Spy Cye…
South Korea drafts "Robot Ethics Charter"
"Imagine if some people treat androids as if the machines were their wives. Others may get addicted to interacting with them just as many Internet users get hooked to the cyberworld," said Park Hye-Young of the robot team at…
Origami Robot Vs. CAD System Robot
Can an origami expert create a humanoid robot before a computer aided design system does? Mr. Torimoto Solidworks Robot Challenge has the result. Somewhat different from the Deep Blue chess playing situation in that origami theoretically involves more aesthetic…
Plen: Desktop Skating Robot
The Plen robot has 18 degrees of freedom and a 3 axis accelerometer, which it uses to skate around your desktop with surprising delicacy. It's also programmable via Bluetooth, sporting a 33 Mhz 32bit ARM7 processor and a USB/RS-232C…
Anybots: the world's first dynamically balancing robot
Where most robots rely on geometry and stiff joints to walk, and don't (even now) cope very artfully with obstacles, the Anybots have compressed air-driven joints which enable them to move more dynamically. With shock-absorbing, flexible joints, they're able…
LEMUR, the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots
Music isn't dead: it's just getting higher tech. LEMUR, the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, is a collective of Brooklyn artists who are incorporating robotic musical instruments into their work, such as the Guitarbot electric slide guitar (video)…