Remember Roomba? You know, the robotic vacuum cleaner that is also programmable to do lots of other cool stuff? Well, recently, Honda has decided to make something similar, in the form of a Robotic Lawnmower. Called Miimo, it cuts about 2-3 mm of grass every time, and moves in random patterns, so that the lawn […]
In light of the recent discoveries, it seems that robotic fish are all the craze now. The Department of Homeland Security has recently been trying to strengthen security from the water, since the US receives a lot of cargo every day. Because it’s hard to inspect all cargo, it was better to have a robot […]
And now for a unique visit. In early 2009, a robotics kit under the name Bioloid came out. It was easy to program with a variety of different motions. And so, what do people let the Bioloid robots do? This is a slightly more relaxed video than usual, so enjoy! Sigh. If only the robots […]
Recently, Rethink Robotics created a revolutionary robot called Baxter. The reasons why Baxter is so useful are many. First, Baxter can actually work next to humans, with its design specific for safety. All of its limbs are encased in plastic, and so there are no extruding parts. This solves a lot of problems and also […]
Recently, automatic parking garages are becoming more an more popular. These automated “robo-garages” are able to deliver cars to designated parking spaces with only the swipe of a ticket by using a moving platform. Although they cost $25,000 to $50,000, they reduce a lot of the space needed. One of the major concerns with the […]
Apparently fish are less alien to their robotic counterparts than you might expect… Scientists wanted to find the behavior of fish by using a robot to emulate behavior in nature. So researchers from the New York Polytechnic Institute. However, they didn’t expect that the fish would take to the robotic fish so quickly, not to […]
Remember BigDog? You know, the robot that stumbled around and could navigate rough terrain like a living creature. Well, the newest version of the dog robot incorporates yet another aspect of a dog: behavior. Made by Boston Dynamics, funded by DARPA, and called AlphaDog, the latest version can actually follow a person around, like a […]
