Video: Chief Cook Robot
Posted on April 21st, 2010 by als
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Video: Bellagio Fountains – Las Vegas – Night Performance
Posted on April 21st, 2010 by als
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Video: Bellagio Fountains – Las Vegas – Daytime
Posted on April 21st, 2010 by als
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Robotic Arm Based on Elephant Trunk
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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African Student Builds Walking Robot from TV Parts
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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