RoboFish – Lifelike Robotic Fish
Smart/talented folks at the University of Kitakyushu managed to make a robotic Sea Bream fish that looks incredibly real. The fish weights a full 15.4 pounds and swims like the real thing. [Source]
Weird Crawling Businessman Robot – Gotta Watch It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glUnzzoFUxg Japanese performance artist Momoyo Torimitsu made a robot that looks and acts like a crawling Japanese businessman. The video above shows the robot crawling the streets of Australia… not sure why. Best part of the video is the nurse pulling the pants down and removing an ass panel to replace the battery.
Zappos Uses Robots To Pull Orders
Zappos, the online footwear pusher is speeding things up in the warehouse, while putting people out of work, using robots to pull their orders. The Kiva Mobile Fulfillment System uses small orange robots to pull each order off of the shelf and deliver it to a human to stuff in a box. Seems like they […]
Panasonic Evolta Robot
Looks like Panasonic has the Energizer Bunny dead in their sites. Panasonic has created a new “longer lasting” AA battery labeled the Evolta (combining “evolution” and “voltage”), which is supposed to last 20 percent longer than anything offered by Duracell and Energizer. Panasonic put some of these batteries in a rope climbing robot and set […]
Techno Kolkata TechFest 2008, Basketball Playing Robot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azS88h4nFCg How did I find this video? Don’t ask. Does the sport of basketball have anything to be worried about? NO! Are bots picking up a ping pong ball and putting them into a mini basketball goal entertaining? YES! This is some Tech Fest – looks like the this video was shot in a backyard. […]
Boston Dynamics Big Dog Spoof
Remember the freaky cool robot dog by Boston Dynamics? Well some clever folks made an absolutely hilarious spoof of the video. Watch this one first them in order.
Boston Dynamics Big Dog
This is one freaky cool robot dog. I have not seen a robot move as well as this one does. The motors on the unit make it sound like a thousand bumble bee’s attacking, but the robot walks like a dog (seems more like a deer to me however). Amazing how well it is able […]
Wall Climbing Robot
Niklas Galler has designed (in theory) his C-Bot wall climbing robot. The idea is that this spider looking robot will climb buildings and check for structural integrity (cracks, mildew, rust, etc…) The robots climbing feet take a page from geckos, the C-Bot’s footpads are covered by tiny nano-hairs which act as adhesive for the vertical […]