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BigDog dynamic manipulation: It throws a cement block! 2 Mar 2013 | 03:58 am
Boston Dynamics have amazed us more than once over the years having created some of the most incredible and, at times, scariest (not in the uncanny valley sense but more on the Terminator is real sens...
Multi-user spatial collaboration using augmented reality on mobile devices 27 Feb 2013 | 03:08 pm
Augmented reality for mobile devices has grown in popularity in recent years partly because of the proliferation of smart phones and tablet computers equipped with exceptional cameras and partly becau...
Quadrocopter inverted pendulum acrobatics 26 Feb 2013 | 02:08 pm
Quadrocopters are all the rage these day but nobody gets them to more impressive acrobatics than the machine learning and control team, led by Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea, at ETH. Whereas just last year ...
UK’s Oxford robot car is here 23 Feb 2013 | 09:57 am
I guess English scientists and engineers don’t like to be outdone by their American counterparts so after many years of hearing constantly about Google’s rapid development of self-driving cars, a team...
Sir James Dyson on robot vacuums: Not good enough! 19 Feb 2013 | 01:31 pm
Sir James Dyson, the man whose name is synonymous with vacuum cleaners that work (among other wonderful inventions) recently expressed his opinion on the robot vacuums available in the market today. H...
Robotic prosthetic arm that can feel 18 Feb 2013 | 01:59 pm
The year 2013 has started brilliantly, even more so than 2012 ended. If you recall, it was in late 2012, when it was announced scientists and engineers had developed a robotic arm that a quadriplegic ...
Chainsaw robot makes furniture for your home 6 Feb 2013 | 12:23 pm
Yes, you have read the title correctly! Some interior design students have a pretty wild imagination (and very likely some friends with robotics expertise and access to some cool hardware:) ) as they ...
MABEL two-legged robot fastest in the world 23 Aug 2011 | 05:22 pm
It would appear that we have a new champion in the “what robot can run fastest race”. The two-legged robot MABEL under development for several years at the University of Michigan was recently revealed...
Robotic seagull takes flight in Europe 30 Mar 2011 | 08:43 pm
Festo are once more impressing everybody with the unveiling of their new SmartBird (or robotic seagull) technology (see also their incredible Elephant-inspired robot arm and AirJelly). The new flying ...
The Land Crawler eXtreme robot 2 Feb 2011 | 10:42 pm
Vagabond Works sure have some interesting home-made robots, and the Land Crawler eXtreme will line up as one of their coolest. It is a twelve-legged metallic bot that moves a lot like an insect of som...
