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Digger D-3 Robo Tank Exterminates Landmines
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While this isn’t something new, since the British developed these types of tanks in WWII, the robotic Digger D-3 is a modern-day take on the mine-sweeping tank. The D-3 is remote-controlled and will crawl around a minefield digging up up landmines thanks to its flail hammers.… |
July 24th, 2011
Sphero: Get Your Hands on Some Remote-Controlled Glowing Balls
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Balls are very near and dear to most men’s hearts. We use them for all sorts of fun and games. We try to take care of our varied balls and keep them from harm’s way. No one wants one of their balls to go flat for instance or explode due… |
June 16th, 2011
DLR Hand Arm System: The Dawn of the Terminator?
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Some German researchers over at DLR have come up with an advanced robotic arm that’s actually really sturdy. Initially, the arm might look fragile, but that isn’t the case. Take a look at the video, in which a researcher takes a baseball bat against the robotic space arm.… |
May 14th, 2011
Kinect Hacked to Control Pr2 Robot by Willow Garage
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Hacks of the Microsoft Kinect are just flooding in now that the device is in the hands of geeks everywhere. I bet Microsoft never thought people would be using the Kinect for anything other than gaming as it was intended.… |
November 24th, 2010
Bear Robot Designed to Save Lives, Looks Like It Will Kill Us All
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Vecna Robotics BEAR (Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot) was created to help with everything from search and rescue missions to hazmat handling. But despite it’s good intentions and unassuming looks in the photo below, this robot scares the crap out of me. What gives me the creeps? This video…… |
September 5th, 2010
Silifulin: Robotic Tail for Humans Should be Renamed Silly Foolin’
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Here’s another really strange and bizarre item from Japan. This outlandish device lets humans who always wanted to have tails actually have one.… |
April 6th, 2010
Giant Robot Dinosaurs Walk Among Us
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This nifty bit of robot footage comes to us from Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). Back at the end of 2005, the Institute developed two animatronic dinosaurs (one Tyrannosaurus Rex, one Parasaurolophus) that could actually balance and walk without any external stability systems. This is… |
March 13th, 2007
Autonomous Jeep Conquers Pikes Peak
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Axion Racing’s… robotic Jeep Grand Cherokee is the first computer-controlled vehicle to conquer the complexities of climbing to the 14,110 foot summit of Colorado’s Pikes Peak. The tricked-out SUV climed to the top in just over 47 minutes, certainly not record time, but still quite impressive for a vehicle that |
July 7th, 2006
