concrete recyclying robot
This robot turns concrete into materials that can be reused in concrete http://www.core77.com/blog/idsa/2013_idsa_idea_winners_our_gold_faves_omer_haciomeroglus_ero_concrete_recycling_robot_25186.asp
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Can AI eliminate a lot of jobs?
Since the beginning of the industrial revolution, whenever we invented an automated technology, or something that would be done by machines instead of humans, we always feared that it would cause unemployment. Yet it didn’t. The workforce simply shifted from performing lower level, manual jobs to ones that required more intelligence. Is it still true, […]
Robots to patrol tunnels at US – Mexico Border
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2014/0116/Tiny-robots-to-prowl-US-Mexico-border-s-dark-drug-tunnels
Robotic Gas Fueling Station
The new robotic gas fueling station is set out to replace many workers at gas stations; yet another field in which machines are replacing humans. But beware, if there is a covering lid on your gas tank, the one you usually have to turn and remove, the machine will not remove it. Here is a […]
Robot gripper in Darpa Robot Competition
Press Release from Robotiq: December 18h, 2013 – Robotiq – a company making robotic tools for agile automation in manufacturing industries – is proud to announce that its 3-Finger Adaptive Robot Gripper will play a major role at the DARPA ROBOTICS CHALLENGE TRIALS on December 20-21 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Florida. Indeed, […]
Robotic Bat Wing
A robotic bat wing has been developed by the researchers of Brown University. Thanks to the research, a great deal of information was gathered about the flight of bats which is quite different than of birds and insects. The role of bows, stretchiness of a bat’s skin, muscular and skeleton structure and the moves are […]
New Vision Technology thanks to Locusts
Researchers from the University of Lincoln and Newcastle University in the UK designed a new vision technology for self-moving robots by scrutinizing locusts and their visual ability. This is a 4 year research project which began in 2011. The project is funded by the Seventh Framework Program of the European Union. Professor Shigang Yue from […]
3D-printed, working Artificial Heart
What happens when you have gas pressure generated by live yeast, 3D printed valve and electricity produced by a microbial fuel cell? You get a 3d Printed artificial heart, according to a report that just appeared at New Scientist. The research team, from University of West England in Bristol, UK, notes that the system could […]
CHIMP getting ready for Robotics Challenge
CHIMP, which is an abbreviation for CMU Highly Intelligent Mobile Platform, is a human size robot being built by Carnegie Mellon University, Tartan Rescue Team. The robot is made to compete in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Robotics Challenge (DRC). DRC is a competition that will test competing robots’ human-like abilities, such as, […]