A robot which talks, climbs stairs and serves
drinks has been shown to the public at the Moscow
Motor Show. Experts say machines are ready to
start working with people. The trouble is - they
have an image problem. Tags :robotMoscowMotorShowmachines
Read more:
http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2007/1
1/taking-inspiration-from-nature.html
Robotics researchers are increasingly turning to
nature for inspiration. Watch a robotic
salamander, a water strider robot, mechanical
cockroaches and some cool self-configuring
robots.
Footage courtesy of: University of Essex, Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Carnegie
Mellon University, ULB-EPFL, Tokyo Institute of
Technology, National Institute of Advanced Science
and Technology (AIST). Tags :robotnatureanimalcockroachwaterstridersalamanderfish
Engineers at Cornell University have designed this
odd-looking machine that can rebuild itself and
also could perform repairs on itself.
http://www.forofriki.com Tags :Robots
One of the great things about these little bots is
that you can make them from scavenged materials.
Use parts from broken electronics and bring them
back to life as little robots! Tags :robotssolarbeambotshowtodiyinstructionsmakemakezinebrepettis
Read more:
http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/mg
19826531.200-shapeshifting-robots-take-form.html
A robot developed by roboticists at the University
of Pennsylvania is made of modules that can
recognise each other. Tags :robotmoduleself-assemblyreassemblemodularself-configurable