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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 video to watch:     Read More

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, 4 of the 17 teams that will take part in […] Read More

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 rediscovered in this research. There is a broad archive based […] Read More

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 the School of Computer Science at the University of Lincoln […] Read More

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 serve as an artificial heartbeat for a cyborglike machine. Read More

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, driving a vehicle on site, traveling on rubble, removing debris […] Read More

Osaka University Japan – in order to design more efficient robots with higher speed and agility the anatomy of a cat is taken as a model in the project Pneupard. What makes the Pneupard distinct among other biomimetic robots is the use of pneumatic artificial muscles. The project team, which also studied pneumatic artificial muscles previously, is from the Graduate School of Information Science and […] Read More

C-Link Systems announced that they would be making 50 desktop education tracked robots available for schools free. They have a form to fill out for teachers, which provide a minimal criteria who like to participate. you can see the form here: http://www.c-linksystems.com/contest.html The robot to be provided is a Trak-Bot-C3 (TB-C3), which is one of two indoor elastomer tracked vehicle used to explore, concept test […] Read More

The soft robot designed by the researchers of Harvard University is able to move upright, crawl below objects and change its color; and now leaping is another recently improved ability of it. The precisely controlled mixture of methane and oxygen in the tubes shown in the picture creates a slight explosion and with that explosion jumping almost a foot (more than 30 times its own […] Read More