These machines are not carrying machineguns or flying covert missions over battlefields, but they are amazing to watch. Via [newscientist]
Archive for the ‘biomimetic’ Category
Shiny penguin, jellyfish, and manta ray robots swim gracefully through the water – and air
Posted by Eric on June 18th, 2010
Posted in aquatic, biomimetic, entertainment, flying, video 
Tags: Festo, jellyfish, manta, penguin 
No Comments »Attack of the robot dinosaurs!
Posted by Eric on June 17th, 2010
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Posted in AI, biomimetic, biped, education, entertainment Tags: dinosaur, exhibit, kids No Comments »Chiba Institute of Technology’s awesome robots
Posted by Eric on June 15th, 2010
Imagine looking out the window and seeing one of these crawling around. More robot videos at the article on [CrunchGear]
Two new kids on the block; Noby and M3-Kindy
Posted by Eric on June 11th, 2010
Two new robot kids were revealed recently at a symposium in Japan by the JST Erato Asada Project. They are cognitive development robots, means to help robots understand complex social interactions and teach us about human development. Noby (Nine-month Old Baby) is a robot meant to model a 9 month old baby, with accurate body [...]
Posted in AI, autonomous, biomimetic, biped, research, study Tags: baby, child, cognitive, development, kid No Comments »Kojiro humanoid
Posted by Eric on June 11th, 2010
Kojiro is a humanoid created by the University of Tokyo’s JSK Robotics Laboratory. It was built with artificial bones, muscles, and tendons to mimic human body structure, making it theoretically lighter, more agile, and appear more natural, than more rigid robots. Full article at [spectrum.ieee]
Posted in biomimetic, biped, domestic, testing Tags: biomimetic, humanoid, japan, Kojiro No Comments »Sharks smell in stereo – feature may improve underwater robots
Posted by Eric on June 10th, 2010
Neil Hammerschlag / www.neil4sharks.org A newly discovered trait in sharks explains part of why they are so adept at finding prey they cannot see. Aside from their sensors which detect tiny electronic impulses (such as those which occur if a buried crab moves a muscle), sharks use a “stereo smelling” technique to hone in on [...]
