Androids

Almost every year, we see and publish new advancements to robotic prostheses, and this year is no exception. In the video below by darpa, the robot hand is not only controlled by brain, but it is also able to sense things.   Source: https://www.youtube.com/user/DARPAtv/videos Read More

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We see more and more 3D printed robotic components everyday. The best advantage of 3D printing are the cost and time savings. The post below is a good example, which is about a 3D printed robotic hand: http://www.roboticstrends.com/article/superhero_inspired_robot_hand_wins_james_dyson_award Read More

Atlas Robot of Boston Dynamics in action. https://m.youtube.com/watch?utm_medium=social&v=NwrjAa1SgjQ&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_content=buffer38715&utm_campaign=buffer Read More

A soft, wearable device that mimics the muscles, tendons and ligaments of the lower leg could aid in the rehabilitation of patients with ankle-foot disorders such as drop foot, said Yong-Lae Park, an assistant professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. Park, working with collaborators at Harvard University, the University of Southern California, MIT and BioSensics, developed an active orthotic device using soft plastics and composite materials, instead of a rigid exoskeleton. The soft materials, combined with pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs), lightweight sensors and advanced control software, made it possible for the robotic device to achieve natural motions in the ankle. The researchers reported on the development in the journal […] Read More

It has been a while since we have not posted a robotic body part, and it looks like with each year there are considerable improvements. Soon, we will be able to make body parts, of at least equal, or even better abilities than the natural ones. View the videos below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtWiIHhYhDc Video Credit: Popular Science See the more detailed story at popular science here. Read More

I would like to call this “the most advanced robotics competition we will witness”. It is called DRC (DARPA Robotics Challenge) organized by DARPA, the initiator of internet, the organization which helped advance the use of autonomous cars, and many more cool technologies. It is an ambitious competition that only the most advanced robotics teams around the world is participating, to demonstrate a robot that is capable of doing many tasks that are very difficult to perform for a robot. The goal is to build a humanoid rescue robot, which is capable of demonstrating skills in different categories, so that in real life situations it can be utilized. We had […] Read More

Roboy, of which we had made a post a while ago here, finally comes to life. The robot has been designed by University of Zurich and the project is sponsored by various international firms and organizations. See the pictures on yahoo. Read More

Rex is an outcome and a breakthrough of the latest prosthetic and biomimicry technology that can imitate the abilities of human body and even surpasses them. With his many aspects Rex is an ordinary man except for the fact that he is a real world bionic man that can see, talk and communicate with people. Most importantly, as an android, Rex is the first bionic man and the most complete design from the labs. Rex is designed by Darlow Smithson Productions (DSP) and the British television company of Touching the Void and Richard Hammond’s Engineering Connections, with the cooperation of the robotics experts of Shadow Robot Company which is a British […] Read More

Robonaut 2 -which was designed and built through the partnership of NASA and General Motors with assistance from Oceaneering Space Systems engineers- is on aboard the International Space Station. Robonaut 2 was launched in February 2011 with the last flight of Nasa’s discovery space shuttle and it started to work last March. Robonaut 2’s first duty was on a handheld air flow meter. A team of programmers controlled the robot remotely to operate valves on the task board in the Destiny Laboratory of the space station. Because steady hands were needed and any other kind of air flow (even human breath) can spoil the delicate samples; monitoring the air velocity […] Read More