Posted on April 16th, 2010 by axb
The good folks at Festo are up to their usual biomimicry mischief again. This time, they’ve made a robotic appendage based on the fluid dexterity of an elephant trunk. The “hands” of this new mechanical arm are sensitive enough to grab items as fragile as a tomato without harming them, making it ideal for manufacturing.
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Posted on April 15th, 2010 by axb
This week (and pretty much every other week), our enthusiasm for robots knows no bounds.
In another example of African ingenuity, a Tongolese student named Sam Togo has made a walking humanoid robot using only spare TV parts. Sam says that the next steps for his robot (named SAM10) will be to program it to sense objects in its path and to greet people with a “hello.” Watch a video after the jump.
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Posted on April 15th, 2010 by axb
Remember Robonaut 2, NASA’s latest robotic astronaut? Well, now it looks like this awesome android might be launching as soon as September. Check out NASA’s latest video of R2 being put through some final tests [after jump].
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Posted on April 12th, 2010 by axb
This week, April 10-18, is National Robotics Week. That means it’s time to read up on robots, and maybe even enter a local robotics competition!
To celebrate, here are some of the coolest robot videos from our blog [after jump].
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Posted on April 9th, 2010 by jxh
No one has conversed with Eric Ramsey since 1999, when a car crash paralyzed him, leaving his conscious mind trapped inside an unresponsive body. The rare condition is called locked-in syndrome, and it has left Ramsey unable to even blink. But now, scientists and engineers are helping him reconnect with the outside world.
Five years after the incident, scientists implanted a device in his brain linking it directly to a speech synthesizer. After years of practice, Ramsey can now generate vowel sounds just by thinking of them.
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