Babyloid Designed by a professor at the Chukyo University in Japan, the Babyloid is a robot that imitates a baby’s behavior. Its aim is to help the elderly feel less lonely and stop depression. Although it looks like a fluffy plush blob, it is actually quite capable. It can produce more than 100 different sounds, […]
A DARPA-funded robot made at the Sandia National Laboratories, the Sandia Hand may eliminate the need for human hands forever! Well, that’s an overstatement. However, the Sandia Hand is quite useful in the fact that it is quite similar to a normal hand. Although it is comparatively inexpensive, it’s appendages move surprisingly similar to a […]
The researchers at Harvard University have made a robot that can camouflage itself! It’s not quite a chameleon, or even an octopus. It’s more like… a sticky hand that can blend in with its surroundings. It’s a robot that moves around and changes color by pumping air and color liquid through it. Sure, it’s manual […]
The newest soft-serve robot is here! Made by researchers at MIT, Meshworm is modeled after earthworms. Similar also to snails and sea cucumbers, the Meshworm uses stretching and squeezing motions to propel itself forward, utilizing the segments of its body. Even though the Meshworm seems soft, it’s actually quite durable, using nickel and titanium to […]
The concept of prosthetic limbs is not new; they’ve been around for a while, to replace limbs that no longer exist. Never before, however, have they been custom-made. Prosthetic limbs have always been made in terms of how medically acceptable they are, which makes sense, since they do have a lot to do with the […]
This doesn’t really need much premise. A group of students at Zhejiang University in China created two robots, Wu and Kong, that can play table tennis with relative fluidity and reflex. Wu and Kong are equipped with eye-mounted cameras that send 120 images per second to the robot’s processor, which calculates ball trajectory and landing […]
