Androids

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 […] 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 […] Read More

His name is Diego-san and he is an android infant developed by the Institute for Neural Computation’s Machine Perception Laboratory, based in the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit). The lab is funded by the National Science Foundation. For the hardware, the lab collaborated with Kokoro Co. Ltd. and Hanson Robotics specialized in building life-like animatronics and androids. Taking […] Read More

University of Zurich Artificial Intelligence Lab is trying to give birth to a humanoid robot boy, called Roboy, which is actuated by tendons mimicking human muscles. It is a smaller counterpart to Kenshiro Humanoid Robot,  about which we had made a news entry just recently. It is an upgrade version of the ECCE robot, which was built a few years ago, but apart from its […] Read More

As in any field we can think of, robots are slowly but surely gaining their place in our classrooms too. Use of robots in classrooms has benefits for many reasons. First of all, it is a very effective way of introducing students to mathematics, engineering and science, in addition to Robotics, which can be considered as the next most popular field in education in the […] Read More

Under its Maximum Mobility and Manipulation (M3) program, DARPA is trying to achieve advances in robotics that will enable better design and fabrication of robots, which will have enhanced mobility and manipulation in natural, undefined environments. Another goal is improve the capabilities of robots by better design tools, fabrication methods and control algorithms. More details about the program can be found here. By its DARPA […] Read More

Researchers at the University of Tokyo came up with an extremely humanlike robot. Called Kenshiro, the robot is 158 cm tall, weighs 50 kg and is supposed to resemble the body of a 12 year old male. The robot mimics 160 major muscles in the human body which is the biggest number achieved in a robot so far. In making the robot, the researchers tried […] Read More

27 inch tall Zeno, one of Hanson Robokind latest humanoid robot creations, has been built on several years of research and promises potential. Zeno’s has a total of 36 degrees of freedom, weighs 5.7 kg and is 69 cm tall. The robot is capable of having conversations that shows compassion and provides help with education or helping learning of disabled children. Zeno is particularly useful […] Read More

  Since the advent of robotics, the scientists have befuddled over the possibility of inventing a robotic hand that can perform the same tasks as a human. The researchers at Sandia National Laboratories have taken steps to replicate the original structure of human hand in their new four-fingered robots. The design is made of high quality plastic. It is a fully functional robotic hand that […] Read More

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