Getting To Know 1st Real-Life Portal
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Filling Up Balloons With Ground Coffee Makes A Gripper Robot For You
The human hand is an amazing machine that can pick up, move and place objects easily, but for a robot, this “gripping” mechanism is a vexing challenge. Opting for simple elegance, researchers from Cornell, the University of Chicago and iRobot Corp. have created a versatile gripper using everyday ground coffee and a latex party balloon,.. read more →
Build a Cellphone-Powered Robot
Even your old cellphone, smart or not, has enough power to create a personal robot. The video to the left is proof of how an old mobile can create a “cardboard truckbot.” The Related Posts:Turn an Old Computer Into an Internet PVR, Downloader, and NASAutomate Your Home with an Old RouterTurn an Old Computer into.. read more →
Cheetah Robot Gallops at 18 mph
Engineering company Boston Dynamics released footage of its robot Cheetah in which they say the four-legged ‘bot hits 18 mph, setting a new record for a running robot.Related Posts:Lego Mindstorms Ensure Recreation Of Wall-E As Working RobotsThe Ethics of Biologically Enhancing SoldiersRobots With A Human MindMotion Sensetive RobotCookie – Baking Robot read more →
Lego Mindstorms Ensure Recreation Of Wall-E As Working Robots
Canadian Lego robotic expert Marc-André Bazergui has created the masterpiece depicted in the video above. He’s taken a Lego Mindstorms kit and managed to Related Posts:Getting To Know 1st Real-Life PortalThe Ethics of Biologically Enhancing SoldiersRobots With A Human MindMotion Sensetive RobotCookie – Baking Robot read more →
The Ethics of Biologically Enhancing Soldiers
Our ability to “upgrade” the bodies of soldiers through drugs, implants, and exoskeletons may be upending the ethical norms of war as we’ve understood them. If we can engineer a soldier who can resist torture, would it still be wrong to torture this person with the usual methods? Starvation and sleep deprivation won’t affect a.. read more →
Robots With A Human Mind
The Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Hasegawa Group has built self-organizing neural networks into the brain of a semi-humanoid android and, as a result, have given it powers that seem like science fiction. It can learn pretty much the same way we do, it learns from its mistakes too, and as it does its tasks it.. read more →