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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Tags: Biomimicry, Electrical, Industrial / Manufacturing, Mechanical, Robotics
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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Tags: Electrical, Mechanical, Robotics
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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Tags: Aerospace, Computer, Electrical, Mechanical, Robotics
Posted on April 13th, 2010 by axb
For those of you who have cheered on the Fighting Irish, we now bring you: the Fighting IBots! Every year at the University of Notre Dame, about 70 Mechanical Engineering students put together two teams of rugged, remote-controlled robots that compete in an exciting football match. See a video of last year’s game day after the jump.
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Tags: Mechanical, Robotics
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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