When we wrote about Alpha the robot back in March, we mentioned that it wasn’t exactly the safest machine to be around:
“Once it fired its pistol without warning, blasting the skin off [its creator's] arm from wrist to elbow.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.08.16 at 04:03
Kevin Warwick was arguably* the world’s first cyborg in 1998 when he got an RFID chip implanted into his arm that allowed him to interact with computer systems using a part of his body.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.08.13 at 04:13
I guess it’s cold enough up thar in Norway that even UAVs need their own little comfy modernist Scandinavian drone huts that look rather a lot like mailboxes.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.08.12 at 04:00
Somehow, although it’s been some 4500 years, there’s still a little bit of the Great Pyramid that’s entirely unexplored. From the two chambers inside the pyramid (the King’s Chamber and Queen’s Chamber), there are small shafts (about the size of a breadbox) leading away towards the exterior.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.08.12 at 02:33
This, kids, is yet another reason why you should start teaching yourself robotics. Plus, you can tell your parents (or your significant other, if you’re a big kid) that you “need a new paintball gun for your science project” (or something).
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.08.11 at 02:52
If you were Google, what would you do with an autonomous, camera-equipped quadrotor? Google, who is Google, must have a pretty good idea (or ideas), since they’ve bought their own Microdrone, which (last time we checked) costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $60k.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.08.10 at 02:43
As soon as they figure out how to get quadrotors to operate outside of a motion capture environment as well (or nearly as well) as they do inside, surveillance could very well be their first major application, the appeal being that in addition to being highly mobile, quadrotors can set themselves down and provide static surveillance without wasting energy staying aloft.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.08.09 at 04:02
“Vacuum living room” is where “sex” would be on the human version Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. It doesn’t strike me as quite the same, but who knows… Maybe, to a Roomba, it is.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.08.09 at 03:09
ROCR may not look like a monkey, but it climbs like one. It may not look like a clock, but it climbs like one of those, too. Or at least, it shares its principles of efficient movement with both monkeys and clocks.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.08.06 at 03:33
The original Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em robots game has a certain charm about it, but nothing that can’t be improved with a bunch of servos and some fancy movement detecting watches from Texas Instruments.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.08.06 at 03:33