The concept of high-speed trains has become widely popular in the world, with the concept that the less friction there is, the higher speeds can be reached. Asia has already implemented these on a wide scale, but even these high-speed trains mostly run on rails, which give quite a bit of friction. The other type […]
Scientists are pulling yet another fictional robotic character into real life… it’s a cyborg. Well, not really. The Robo-Moth is actually a moth’s brain attached to a robotic vehicle. It’s something that robotic engineers have been striving at for ages; although insect brains are miniature compared to ours, their senses are much more finely tuned. […]
While biorobotics has mostly been used to exploit the innate skills of living animals, in this case example, biorobots can also be used to model ecological situations, such as predator-prey relationships. RoboSquirrel isn’t a complex robot. It mostly consists of two skills, first, moving from one end of a wooden box to the other, and […]
Yet another robot animal has come to save us all. Made by a research team at MIT, the RoboSnail was created to mimic the snail’s unique ability to travel on all kinds of strange surfaces. The key to the snail’s crawling technique is the slime that it travels on. This material is special in that […]
iRobot is at it again, this time with a hexapod with six jamming sections. The actual body of the hexapod has six separately jamming chambers. This allows certain parts of it to jam while others remain fluid. Then, below the body are the six legs of the hexapods, which can also jam, thus creating a […]
The technique of digging effectively into sand has always been a difficult task for those who wish to anchor into the water. But, with surprising technique derived from the razor clam, which burrows effectively into the water. It’s quite amusing to look at, too. Although the razor clam’s burrowing is slow, it goes straight in, […]
Recently Hitachi unveiled a new version of its humanoid robot, EMIEW2. This robot can distinguish between different voice and converse with people. It can move around on bumpy surfaces, and it is overall a very interactive robot. But that’s nothing new. Have you ever lost something in the void, and never seen it again? Wait […]
