For anybody who dreams of a cozy life, they need a “DreamBots – WheeMe”. It is a palm size robot but performs extraordinarily well to massage your body coz it is embedded with unique sensor technology. So as WheeMe moves, it would gently press your body while never falling off or losing its grip. Isn’t that magic? [Read the rest of this entry...]
Kid’s Walke is a 1.6 meters tall bi-pedal exoskeleton coming from Japan. Designed to be piloted by children, the exoskeleton suit would move the kids around and help them accomplish certain tasks via the control of hand grips. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Natan Linder and his LuminAR make us love MIT more and love lamps more. The MIT student integrated a small scale digital projector with a robotic arm, creating an innovative interactive system that can help the users to check out images and emails directly on the table top. Its articulated robotic arm can also be used in combination with a laptop or a mobile phone. For a demonstration, continue with the video after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Coming from Carnegie Mellon University, Snackbot takes the very name from one of its main jobs: to serve snacks. And the other job of the robot is to serve as a research platform for kinds of researches. It is intended for both fully autonomous and semi-autonomous operation. With various sensors built in, Snackbot could communicate with people through verbal and non-verbal mechanisms, participate in simple sociable activities, distinguish those people around it and learn to recognize new objectives, etc. In one word, Snackbot is a cute-looking robot with various skills. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Hello, everyone, we’d like to introduce you our new friend, the Nyago Cats, creative robotic toys from Japan’s TakaraTomy. Just keep clapping your hands and these lovely kitties will then start to roll and roll. If you’re considering feeding pets while not planning to spend too much time taking care of them, the Nyago Cats are obviously your best choices. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Recently, a robot designed by Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) is being tested in Kyoto-area supermarket. His name is Robovie-II and his work is to help the elderly with grocery shopping. Firstly, the shoppers should make a shopping list at home on a special mobile device, which will later be detected by sensors at the supermarket. After that, a waiting robot will accompany you to shop, reminding you of needed commodities, introducing certain items and even remarking how delicious the beef seems. Though so far it’s still being tested, I’ve started to look forward to a widespread use of Robovie-II. If we’re really too busy to accompany our grandmas out for shopping, why don’t we create something as clever as us to help her? I have to say, the idea behind the robot is quite great. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Why do we say, these days nobody is still caring about paper books? In my mind, the ever-developing digital storage devices will never completely take the place of paper books. And we do need to store books, especially valued old books in a better way. The British Library has built up a new Additional Storage Building (ASB) that adopts seven robotic cranes to retrieve books. Seven million books are hoped to be stored in the new library. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Let me see …well, the twin robots are just like the two sides of a coin, one is an angle and the other is a devil. For example, when you play chess, the black robot will mess up the chessboard while the white one will guide you a clever move. Preparing a vacation? The black would have already made a flight reservation to Bali Island for you, using your credit card of course, and the white robot? Wow, the considerate guy has collected up your luggage. Not that the white robot is better than the black, but only with both they two, life will truly be splendid. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Robobuilder is the creator of the 5720t ‘Huno’ robotics kit with a special capability of dancing. And even long before Christmas, these robots have already prepared a Xmas dance for the festival, as you can see from the video. [Read the rest of this entry...]
Researchers from Israel have developed the mini robot that is expected to be widely used in the medical field. Measuring merely 1mm, the robot could move inside vessels (at a speed of 9mm per second) to deal with the clogging artery and inject some drug. And all its actions are controlled by the extracorporeal magnetic field, which means a real-time manipulation and a safety operation. Until now, scientists are still concentrating efforts on advancing the maneuverability of the robot, equipping it with a camera, for example.
The Bathroom Cleaning Robot, from Russia, is an innovative techie assistant to clean and tidy up your bathrooms automatically. You will be amazed at its perfect performance! When connected to water tap, the robot then starts to clean your room with a cleaning cloth. Whatever the showers, bathtubs, sinks, floors or walls, the cute robot can all clean them in an efficient way. More than that, the sucker pads on bottom still allow it to climb up the wall to ensure a thorough cleanliness.
Well, I believe you have also noticed that clock is a favorite to all designers. But different from those clocks we showed you, the robotic digital clock is for those who understand sign language well, because it shows time all by hands.
Robot is no longer a fanciful gadget, but what about one that has an iPhone for head and all controlled by it? Still exciting! The cute robot can wake you up in morning, dancing to music and show different facial expressions.
This pool skimmer is driven by the solar power and lets you keep your swimming pool clean in an eco-friendly way. With a pair of solar panels on the top of the skimmer to collect the sun’s energy and store it in a rechargeable NiMH battery, the pool skimmer also can change the station and reduce the work intensity automatically, according to the environment.
A car then, a robot now, and then a car again, has transformer Optimus Prime come out of the movie? In fact, it’s a real transformer robot that is well constructed to morph into a robot from a motorized truck. Though it looks much smaller with a bare12 inches tall than those big guys in “Transformer Ⅱ”, it’s still worth watching. Let’s see more on Youtube.
