Archive for the 'Robots' Category

Hand-Shaking Robot

The researchers from Japan’s Ishikawa Namiki Komuro Labs have perfected “grasping using high-speed visual feedback”. Here is a short demonstration video of this hand-shaking robot.
This system consists of an active vision with the parallel processing vision system called SPE-256, and a multi-fingered hand-arm system like a human hand. This is controlled using a multi-DSP Hierarchical […]

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

Dragonfly Robot

FlyTech’s Dragonfly Robot is touted as the World’s First Winged Robot. Here is the video demonstration of Dragonfly robot.
It doesn’t use propellers or glide around with fixed-position wings like a fraudulent flying insect wanabee. No, this Dragonfly debuts as the world’s first robot to use brute flapping-power to remain airborne. And despite what you think, […]

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

BBot 2.0 - Self Balancing Robot

BBot 2.0 is a custom-built Dual-Axis self balancing robot which features an integrated motor driver and controller, onboard micros that measure inertial sensors, and external port connectors as well as an I2C bus header in case a larger motor driver is needed.
Self balancing robots have become very popular in recent years. BBot will be at […]

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

Miuro

Miuro is the egg-shaped device that can either pump tunes from your docked iPod or wirelessly from a PC through its Kenwood-built speakers. It is available in white, black, red, or yellow color. It responds to your commands via remote control.
Supported media formats include WAV, WMA, MP3, AAC, AIFF and LPCM. Various options including […]

Friday, October 20th, 2006

WineBot

WineBot is a robot that can taste and tell the kind of wine using a beam of infrared light from its left arm to a bottle. It is designed by the researchers at NEC System Technologies and Mie University. A demonstration has been done on a bottle of Shiraz at a laboratory in Tsu, central […]

Monday, September 4th, 2006