Robots

10 Minutes of Robot Porn from Hannover Messe 2017

Robots can do some pretty amazing things these days. Sure, there are concerns about humans losing their jobs to automation, but you have to remember that there are lots of high-paying jobs created for engineers and roboticists to design, build and program the robots themselves, and many of the jobs…

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DIY Flat Pack Legged Robot: ZeGoBeast Electric

ZeGoBeast’s eponymous mechanical creatures are based on Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests and are delivered as a flat pack kit. The company now aims to give its creations more life-like qualities by equipping them with electronics. The ZeGoBeast Electric are scorpion-like creatures that are powered by an Arduino microcontroller and come with…

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MIT Making Robots with Human Reflexes

In the DARPA Robotics Challenge, the idea is to create a robot that can navigate an obstacle course, using skills that could help save humans in an emergency. On the flip side, we may also be creating robot overlords that will one day decide to rule us meat sacks. For…

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California Students Participate in LEGO Robot Build Off

When I was a kid, we didn’t have much in the way of competitions or anything to encourage the use of mechanical skills and engineering. I think one of the coolest contests a kid could do is something like this one – when kids from 9 to 14 years old…

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Robot Hand Accurately Mimics Human Hands: One Step Closer to Daimos!

UK-based Shadow Robot recently showed off their Shadow Dextrous Robot Hand at the International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo Japan. The hand “provides 24 movements, allowing a direct mapping from a human to a robot.” This means that the robot can be as precise or as delicate as a human hand:…

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10 Minutes of Robot Porn from Hannover Messe 2017

DIY Flat Pack Legged Robot: ZeGoBeast Electric

MIT Making Robots with Human Reflexes

California Students Participate in LEGO Robot Build Off

Robot Hand Accurately Mimics Human Hands: One Step Closer to Daimos!

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