Burrito Bomber UAV Delivers Food From The Sky
Yep, it was only a matter of time before the local food delivery guy on the scooter was replaced by a UAV remote control airplane?? The Burrito Bomber is just that, an unmanned autopiloted remote control airplane that can carry a 3-inch diameter 500 gram burrito. The burrito is then dropped on the exact location […]
Make Your Roomba An Air Freshener With Robot Add-Ons RoomAroma
If your house is smelling a bit funky, why not kill two birds with one stone., Vacuum your carpets while deodorizing the air., A company called Robot Add-ons has a cool Roomba accessory in the form of a air freshener that mounts onto the vacuuming robot., The RoomAroma add-ons will set you back about $14.99 […]
Korean Salad Tossing Robot
Smart folks from the Korean Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) Center for Intelligent Robotics (CIR) have created a robot to help out with household chores. This is the third version of the CIROS Robot and was shown at Robot World 2012. CIROS can recognized many common objects around the house including refrigerators, dishwashers, sinks, […]
QBotix Sun Tracker Uses A Robot To Adjust Each Solar Panel
Typically solar panels are mounted in a fixed orientation which works pretty good. However, when you want to ring every bit of energy out of the sun it is best to use sun trackers. Solar trackers tend to be 40 percent more energy efficient than fixed mount systems. A solar/sun tracker follows the sun through […]
Cheetah-Bot Runs Faster Than Any Human
The robot-obsessed team at Boston Dynamics has created a Cheetah Robot that can run 28mph. That is pretty damn fast for a robot, but keep in mind that the Olympian Usain Bolt got up to 27.78mph during his 20-meter sprint. Either way, this Cheetah Robot is going to haunt my dreams for quite some time. […]
Largest QuadCopter Swarm Takes To The Sky
People in Linz, Austria were lucky enough to see an amazing swarm of 50 Quadcopters performing a synchronized lightshow. A smart group from the Ars Electronica Futurelab and Ascending Technologies GmbH launched 50 AscTec Hummingbird quadcopters at the same time. The AscTec Hummingbird Quadrocopters put on a pretty cool lightshow. Video after the break.
Ubi = The Wall Outlet Computer
Ubi, a play on ubiquitous, is a tiny android based computer that plugs in to a standard wall outlet like a nightlight. Ubi has WiFi, voice recognition (your voice is the keyboard and mouse), Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, an 800 MHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, and 1GB of RAM. The idea is that you can use […]
Leif Andersson Wooden Robot Shell Game
You know the famous old game used to scam folks in NYC, the ball and cup game (or shell game)? Well it is a game where three cups are moved around quickly and the audience is supposed to guess which cup the ball is in. Leif Andersson has crafted an amazing wooden robot version of […]
Hands-Free Toilet Paper Dispenser
Being the germaphobe that I am, I don't like touching anything in public bathrooms. Some seriously gross people do some seriously gross stuff in those bathrooms. I am a big fan of automatic flush toilets, hands-free soap and paper towel dispensers, and doors that I can open with my foot instead of my hands. For […]
SWITL Scoops Up Goopy Stuff Perfectly
This crafty Furukawa Kikou robot, the SWITL, scoops up goopy messes with ease and then can place them down again in the exact form they were picked up. I think it is amazing but can't think of too many uses for it in the real world. It was supposedly designed for bakeries that use soft […]