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Rat Brain Controls Small Cyborg Robot! With Video!

Dan — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 09:08:17 +0000

Robot is controlled entirely by lab grown rat brain cells. The team grows neurons on an electrode array, which via wireless (bluetooth) communication receives signals from the robot's ultrasonic sensors.

Robotic Deer Helps Officers Thwart Illegal Hunting!

Dan — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 19:51:41 +0000

This robotic deer helps protect wildlife and citizens from illegal hunting. The remote controlled deer has a moving head and tail. Officers bust hunters shooting from their cars shortly after the shooters are tricked by this life-like animatronic deer. Watch the video below!

Robotic Deer Helps Catch Poachers Image Credit: Planet Green

This is not a new problem in wildlife management. Robotic deer have been used in Indiana, Florida, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and many other states to help stop illegal hunters. This just shows how a little application of technology can make a deer look realistic enough to fool hunters from a distance.

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Destroyed “Self Healing” Chair Puts Itself Back Together – Video

Dan — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 17:00:59 +0000

I stumbled across an old but awesome video of a self healing chair which falls apart then reassembles itself. This chair explodes then puts itself back together again!

RoboBuilder Robots do a Christmas Dance – Video

Dan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:18:01 +0000

Robot Surgery Is Safe, But No Better Than Regular Surgery for Children, Says Report.

Dan — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:30:40 +0000

According to a study published in Pediatrics, using robots for surgery is safe, but provides no better outcomes for child patients in some cases. Robotic surgery systems, such as the Da Vinci allow surgeons to more easily do less invasive surgeries, as well as reduce human error like shaking hands.

Roomba’s Playing Pac-Man!

Dan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:28:37 +0000

Roombas and humans play real life Pac-Man! The Pac-Man is controlled remotely while the ghosts are autonomous. Positioning systems tell the robots whether where they are on the map and determine whether they are allowed to turn and where the pills are located.

It would be perfect if they made Pac-Man look more like this Pac-Man with several hundred LEDs, we wrote about earlier!

Check out the creator’s website: http://pacman.elstonj.com/
Found at [Botropolis]

Petman Bipedal Robot Prototype by Boston Dynamics – Video

Dan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:46:18 +0000

This bipedal, walking robot is Boston Dynamics latest creation. It’s closely related to their BigDog robot, but only has two legs so it walks like a human.

Petman is shown walking at 3.2MPH and uses human-like, heal to toe walking motions. It also has some stability, just watch it recover from being pushed in the video below!

The goal is to recreate how a human walks, so chemical suits can be stress tested. Petman is “the first anthropomorphic robot that moves dynamically like a real person.”

Another amazing robot from Boston Dynamics, the same company who made the original land version of the sand robot we wrote about earlier, and BigDog.

PETMAN is an anthropomorphic robot for testing chemical protection clothing used by the US Army. Unlike previous suit testers, which had to be supported mechanically and had a limited repertoire of motion, PETMAN will balance itself and move freely; walking, crawling and doing a variety of suit-stressing calisthenics during exposure to chemical warfare agents. PETMAN will also simulate human physiology within the protective suit by controlling temperature, humidity and sweating when necessary, all to provide realistic test conditions.

And it wasn’t easy to build, either: it took 13 months to design and an additional 17 months to build! That’s two and a half years!
[Boston Dynamics]

Skiing Robot Carves Up The Snowy Mountain Slope – Video

Dan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:24:51 +0000

The robot is autonomous, and contains a complex sensory control system. An on-board camera identifies gates on the slope while a GPS system tracks position and velocity.

Dishwashing Robot Prototype Demonstrated By Panasonic – And Other Robot Videos!

Dan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:20:10 +0000

First up, Panasonic’s dishwashing robot. Then, other cool robot videos!

Panasonic’s fledgling robotics department has created a dishwashing robot capable of grasping utensils and dishes with the appropriate force, and placing them into a dishwasher.

Panasonic hopes to develop their robotics line into a one billion dollar per year business by 2015, or about 1.5% of their current revenue. Also in the video, some of Panasonic’s other robots.

Other dishwashing robots:

This video shows STAIR (STanford Artificial Intelligent Robot) unloading items from a dishwasher autonomously. Using machine learning algorithms, the robot is able to understand the image, and pick up objects — even the ones that were not seen before. This video is 3-x speed. More details at: http://ai.stanford.edu/~asaxena/learninggrasp/

Cool, but a little slow!

The ARMAR Humanoid Robot putting a cup in the dishwasher:

Here is one of the better ones:
The Willow Garage’s PR1 mobile robot. Here it is doing the dishes.

And another video of it grabbing a beer.

This guy even cleans up a messy living room!

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Industrial Motion Control Robots Have Fun With Fanta – Video

Dan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:10:54 +0000

Check out this video of some industrial robots showing off their precision. The distance between the cans is only 1mm! Nice moves. I can’t help but think that the programming part takes a little longer than what they show in this video. It’s pretty impressive, and you know those robots are expensive.

Superior motion control is the hallmark of all ABB industrial robots. In the first FANTA Can Challenge we set a test that none of our competitors could come close to. Now with the Level II challenge we have “raised the bar another notch” by introducing a THIRD robot & tightening the tolerances. The gap between the cans & pin is now only 1mm. And as always with ABB robots “What you program is what you get – AT ANY SPEED”.