Willow Garage’s PR2 robot now for sale
Posted by admin in Robots on 09. Sep, 2010 | 0 Comments
PR2 – short for Personal Robot 2 – is roughly the size of a person and consists of a mobile base sitting upon four steered and driven casters, torso, head, two arms, an array of sensors and sixteen cores for computation. The torso moves up and down relative to the base, to give PR2 a [...]
Scientific team creates molecular robot from DNA
Posted by admin in Computers, Science on 18. May, 2010 | 0 Comments
Scientists from Columbia University, Arizona State University, the University of Michigan, and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have created a robot that’s just 4 nanometers wide. And no, it doesn’t have flashing lights, video cameras or wheels. It does, however, have four legs, and the ability to start, move, turn, and stop. Descendants of [...]
Moaning Rubber Robot Mouth Simulates Human Voices, Fuels Our Human Nightmares
Posted by admin in Robots on 20. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
Don’t be too thrown off by the creepy sounds this robot elicits, as it may actually help hearing-impaired people improve their speech articulation Over the weekend, video of a horrifying robot struggling to sound out vowels was passed around the web with little explanation other than, “This is creepy.” Which it certainly is, but, after [...]
Robot Nomadic Plant Feeds Off Polluted Water
Posted by admin in Robots on 13. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
It appears plants are turning into cyborgs, well, they do seem to have picked up a thing about movement. The work of Mexican artist Gilberto Esparza, these Nomadic Plants or Planta Nomada has robotic legs to help it move. This plant-machine hybrid gets energy from a microbial fuel cell. Microbes at work to generate electricity [...]
Giant Spanish Bank HQ Employs Swarm of Guidebots to Keep Visitors From Getting Lost
Posted by admin in Auto, Robots on 09. Apr, 2010 | 0 Comments
Donut-shaped robots make life easier for the directionally challenged Robot Guides. Robot guides help visitors navigate a banking center in Madrid. In an innovative solution to the problem of crowd control in a business complex filled with 5,500 employees, a banking center in Madrid has assembled a team of stylish, helpful robots to help people [...]
