Crazy wacky ideas always seemed to come from the unpredictable Japanese. Last week we saw a vending machine that’s so high-tech it’s fitted with large-ass touchscreen panels. Now they’ve also incorporate high-tech stuff into the machine, by placing a robot inside an ice-cream vending machine! Check out the video above to see Mr. Cool Roboto make an ice cream. Just a few pinches on what flavour and toping that you wish, and he’ll sincerely make you an ice cream with a smile, albeit slow at his movements. Maybe Mr. Roboto is getting old. But slow and steady always win the race. Sadly enough, that does not win the heart of the ten kids that’s impatiently queuing up at the back.
What is usually abused for factory work and amusing hijinks, a team of researchers at Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics have turned a KUKA KR 500 robotic arm into a Formula 1 simulator ride, with the help of some force-feedback steering wheel, pedals, video projector, and curved screens. The CyberMotion Simulator lets scientists ride a virtual Ferrari F2007 in a virtual race track, cooler than your home Logitech Momo Steering Wheel. The cockpit is capable to whip out up to 2 Nm of G-Force. Read more…
The GRASP Lab at UPenn placed a claw-like gripper on the bottom of each quadrotor so it could grab objects and developed a control method, basically swarm robotics, which allows the quadrotors to team together in any number and configuration. What the video above and be amazed. I wonder how is the load when we combined 100 units of choppers.
Like I always say, technology has vastly helped us puny humans to cope up and achieve great things that used to be unthinkable. But technology has also made us lazier by the day. This is a sound proof of the latter. Willow Garage, some drunken group that must be nerdy with a beer belly, had come up with a robot, PR2, which can serve four pints of beers at a time.
Check out this cute video of a robot playing pool. Not totally accurate, but still, its accomplishments are quite amazing. Calculations and process takes slightly longer than usual, but of kush it’s just a robot, not a supercomputer. Done by Team Sharkpool from Willow Garage, the PR2 robot is the result of a week of development. Quite a nifty trick, considering it’s a side project and the time is so short. Check out the video of PR2 playing with a stick after the jump.
Well it’s the 30th Anniversary this year, so it’s expected that many new products centralizing on Gundam will emerge. Like cafes, and figures. And now comes the new challenger, mobile phone Company Softbank and Sharp announce 12.1-megapixel camera phone named the “Gunpla”.
Yep, it’s named the Gunpla alright. As you can see in the screen, it’s a flip phone, with the gigantic camera at the back. It even comes with EFSF (*Earth Federation Space Force in the U.C.). But the most important thing to all gunplas is that it comes with a 1:100 RX-78-2 Gundam! Read more…
San Francisco designer Norio Fujikawa has created this Kanibot, a small sized clean designed robot with futuristic look. More pictures after the break. Read more…
Oh sh*t, i hate baby robots, creepy bots. The man above is Dr.Javier Movellan and the ego head baby next to him is Diego-San. They are from Machine Perception Laboratory at UCSD. I’m alright with the picture above but not the one after the break. Read more…
This is the first they put a match between between a human pro wrestler and a robot. The robot is called Genuine Great King Kizer. It is a 1 meter tall 9 kilo humanoid with 37 servos and 25 degrees of freedom.
“Every 18 months or so, designer Naoki Maru has doubled the size of this robot, which means that it’ll be playing soccer with Hajime 33 sometime in 2011.”
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