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DARPA Robot Climbs Stairs Like a Boss, Another Does More Pushups Than I Can
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Hot on the heels of the announcement of the DARPA Robotics Challenge, it’s looking more and more like Boston Dynamics will be a shoe-in for the competition with its latest bi-pedal robots. A recently released video clip shows DARPA and Boston Dynamics bipedal robots climbing stairs, walking on a treadmill and… |
April 12th, 2012
Preliminary Details of New DARPA Grand Challenge for Humanoid Robots Surface
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Robots can be awesome (and more than a little creepy at times). DARPA is about to start up a new Grand Challenge that involves robots that can walk among other things. DARPA’s Dr. Gill Pratt recently revealed that the new challenge will involve builders competing to create a humanoid robot… |
April 6th, 2012
Spatula Robot Walks and Wobbles, But Can’t Fix You Breakfast
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A while back, we posted a robot that could flip pancakes, and duo that could cook breakfast too. Well, this little fella looks the part of a kitchen robot, but can’t cook his way out of a box of Hot Pockets. That’s okay though, because the Spatula Robot has still… |
April 5th, 2012
Robot Teaches Itself to Walk, Just Not Very Well
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I recently showed you a video in which a Gundam mech taught itself to walk using some sort of “genetic algorithm”. Around the same time, it turns out engineers have been giving real robots the tools they need to walk on their own.… |
March 3rd, 2012
Is This Robot the Greatest Toy in the Universe?
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Jaimie Mantzel is excited about the new toy that he invented. With good reason. He even has a toy company on board to help produce his walking robot toy. He’s calling this prototype robot the “greatest toy in the universe.”… Watch the video and you might even agree. |
February 10th, 2012
Six Legged Insect Robot Picks Up Prey in Its Jaws of Death
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It’s a good week for hexapod robots around here. First, we had the awesome Morphex transforming robot, and now we have this guy. It’s a six-legged robot that is dextrous enough to use two of its legs to pick up prey.… |
December 14th, 2011
Morphex Robot: Spherical Hexapod Robot Creeps Into Our Lives
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The MorpHex Robot, much like a Transformer, is more than meets the eye. It’s a ball. It’s a bot. It transforms and then skitters around like a creepy crab. It also dances and can interact with its environment.… |
December 12th, 2011
Spider Robot is Creepy, But Helpful
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The disaster in Japan early this year showed people that robots are often needed in the wake of a massive catastrophe like the tsunami and earthquake. When the nuclear plant started to meltdown and radiation leaked out, humans couldn’t get to the plant to help, so robots were brought in.… |
November 2nd, 2011
HyQ Quadruped Robot Kicks, Trots and Rears Up
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If they create anymore quadruped robots, we are going to need to build some robotic zoos to house them. We have BigDog, AlphaDog and now HyQ. HyQ was developed at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), in Genoa. This hydraulic quadruped can do a bunch of new tricks.… |
October 31st, 2011
Passive Walking Robot Walks on Its Own
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If you thought that you would be okay just running away from robots, think again. This one won’t get tired, won’t run out of power and won’t stop until it catches you. That’s because it’s walking is powered by it’s own weight.… |
October 26th, 2011
