Anybots is now taking pre-orders for what’s (realistically) the first self contained commercial telepresence robot available to the general public, QB.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.07.28 at 13:12
In what probably isn’t a tribute to Spirit (which drove backwards from March of 2006 on due to a broken wheel) Curiosity took its first drive test on Friday at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory where it’s undergoing assembly.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.07.27 at 02:29
A week or so ago, we posted about a 2008 study suggesting that humanish robots are a bad, bad idea. However, it’s definitely true that human facial features are great at communicating emotional information to humans, so there’s certainly something to be said for incorporating things like eyes and eyebrows into a robot.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.07.26 at 04:01
Earlier this year we posted about how people are starting to specifically request robot-assisted surgeries as opposed to having ‘just’ a human operate on them.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.07.26 at 02:40
We’ve seen a couple different kinds of perching UAVs lately, including Stanford’s wall sticking UAV and EPFL’s head-first perching UAV.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.07.23 at 02:41
Once again, it’s robots and pancakes. Not that I have a problem with that, except for the fact that it makes me want pancakes and I don’t have pancakes.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.07.23 at 01:46
“I probably shouldn’t have given it a superclaw, or a laser eye, or the power to control dogs’ minds. ”
This is a picture from a beautifully illustrated children’s book entitled Oh No! Or, How My Science Project Destroyed The World, starring a a 5th grade girl and her misbehaving (to put it mildly) giant robot.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.07.22 at 04:37
A pair of robotic vehicles from Vislab (artificial vision and intelligent systems lab at the University of Parma) departed Parma, Italy on Tuesday for Shanghai, China.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.07.22 at 03:36
This is a robot going poo:
The robot in question is Ecobot III, which contains a fully functional digestive system capable of ingesting biomass, turning it into energy, and then excreting waste, graphically demonstrated in the above video.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.07.21 at 03:01
It takes some work to combine a bunch of parts into a working anything, but Trossen Robotics is making things easy if you want your own remote control dual axis robotic turret.
Via BotJunkie | Posted on 2010.07.21 at 02:17