The samurai of old are widely regarded as being among the best warriors that ever lived, and with good reason. Although those days are long gone, the Japanese people are still keeping their traditions alive to some extent, which is why you can still see sword masters wielding katanas even...
One of the top 25 finalist in the Electrolux Lab competition invented fridge, which stores your food in gel-like material. Do you know what is on the first place. when it comes to the biggest energy suckers? Air conditioners. Do you know what is on second place? If you guessed...
If you’re looking for a vaguely frightening realization of just how good robots are getting at activities that require a high degree of optical precisions and fine motor control, than the video below has exactly what you need. In a promotional short film created by robotics company KUKA, we see...
A team of researchers from the US and China have developed a synthetic ‘skin’ capable of sensing pressure with a similar sensitivity to the human fingertip. The technology could bring us one step closer to a smart skin for the robotics industry, allowing devices to ‘feel’ their environment. Using vertical...
From giant mechanical jellyfish and manta rays to birds, the field of robotics is quickly moving up the evolutionary chain. In response to DARPA’s Robotics Challenge, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has produced a bot that mimics the motions of monkeys. The RoboSimian has been designed for search and rescue missions, and like its living counterparts, it can swing...
Demolition is a messy business—not only does the process require heavy machinery and produce clouds of dust, but it also results in giant piles of rubble that often head straight for the landfill. Omer Haciomeroglu, a student at Sweden’s Umeå Institute of Design has designed Ero – a robot that recycles concrete in an energy-efficient...
Researchers at Toshiba’s Akimu Robotic Research Institute were thrilled ten months ago when they successfully programmed Kenji, a third generation humanoid robot, to convincingly emulate certain human emotions. At the time, they even claimed that Kenji was capable of the robot equivalent of love. Now, however, they fear that his...
