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You may remember these plastic toys from your past time, red and blue robot thumb wrestler that could pop-up their heads. This is the classic thumb wrestler robot toys Rock’em Sock’em. These mini classic plastic robot sized in 3 x 1.5 x 1.5 inches with famous available colors of blue and red. Available at Tin Toy Arcade at $2.98 for nostalgia. These thumb wrestler robots were introduced by Marx Toys since 1960s, where the manufacturer Marx and M…
y of 2006 at HERE Theater. On the play the human characters were mixed with robot characters that operated by human. Robot characters that appeared on the stage were Billy, Hans, Aunt Julie, Berta, and Judge Brack. The entire robots were designed by Cindy Jeffers and Meredith Finklestein from Botmatrix. The appearance of the robot on this performance was quite unique with their shinny metallic looks they were able to create an original theatrical…
It has been shown on television a new commersial advertisment that used robots as the athlete. This commersial advertisement is advertising a new lubricant from Total. The advertisement shows robots battling in marathon and of course the winner is the one that used Total’s lubricant. This advertisement video taken in three different location, Lebanon, Dubai, and Brazil, and tagged with “make your engine an athlete of the road”. Cool commercial c…
The new dimensions to the island’s reputation as a high-tech power become the main goal of an ambitious group of scientists at the Centre for Intelligent Robots Research in Taiwan lab. Jo Po-chia, a doctoral student who is in charge of the robot’s design, states “It’s the first time we try to construct a quadrupedal robot. We need to consider the balance problem.” The panda robot will be the world’s first panda robot that has been introduced in …
UITE or Union of IT Enterprises announced a robotic competition for mines detecting robots at ArmRobotics open championship in Yerevan. They announced for the championship registration of robot that able to detect mines that was closed last April, 15. This contest wanted the participant to create robot that able to detect mines. Not only detect mines their robot should also be able to locate the locations. Lastly, the robot should be able to cre…
It might look silly that people use robot to ride on their camel on a race. But it’s already been done in Qatar as Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, banned child jockeys on that race. Robot jockey successfully introduced on an official race in 2005 and by two years all the camel that competes on the race should be directed by robot. RAQBI Center is the company that initiatively produces the jockey robots but the initial idea of usin…
All of the cute little needling robot bellow are made of colorful ecofelt. Each of them measured in 14cm tall with cute bright eyes. This collection could be yours cute trinkets robot collection with $12. Complete your kid’s collection of robotic in their room with this cute mini needling robots. They will be ready to be your kid’s next robot companion collection if you let them. Check tis little cute item here. …
Zoo use to be display real life animals, but here in the Robot Zoo there will be life animal displayed but robot animals. The zoo concept is that an exhibition that reveals biomechanics of robot animals. With this exhibition will help children learn about how real animals work. The Robot Zoo measured in 5,000 square foot exhibition that contained eight robot animals and more fascinating illustration on real life characteristics. Some robot that …
Frankly these three robots shown in the video above is quite conventional climbing robot. They use their hands and legs to hold on the grip in climbing the wall. These climbing robots have been climbing up and down on a 15-meter wall at the Japanese pavilion every 20 minutes, for the last 184 days. Their movement is quite precise but they move pretty slowly. These robots were dressed in silver work clothes, but when I saw it at the first time …
In 2007 after the war began in Iraq for the first time robot carrying machine gun deployed in the street of Iraq. There were three robots deployed to Iraq, they were belong to Special Weapon Observation Remote Reconnaissance Direct Action System or SWORD robot. These robots were carrying M249 machine guns. With the consideration of safety both for the soldiers and robots these modified version of bomb disposal robot use in Iraq was delayed in 20…
It’s like a common thing that today robotics are already used to help rescue worker find victims of disaster. Like what just happened in Haiti lately after the strike of earthquake. There were teams of robots that dispatched to Haiti. For example was Global Hawk UAV that used to take images to provide imagery for rescue teams. This imagery would be something valuable for rescue teams to locate the humanitarian effort. What made it different in Haiti, rescue teams didn’t use ground-base robot that better to be used in large building collapse not in residential areas like in Haiti.
Kwon Ki Nam would like to have something helpful to share with others. The Blind Credit Card is quite simple but helpful for the blind. The technology used is in this credit card is a fingerprint recognition software. In completing the security he uses Braille display on the card to give information about the detail of the transaction. This way users will be accommodated to understand the transaction they’ve made and will not feel being cheated. Beside that a built-in speaker that informed users about what kind of product being paid.
Developed by iRobot this robot named CoWorker and worked as an office robot. It will make every boss in office happy, it never complains and it’s never late. Stands in 3 feet high and uses sonar sensor to avoid crash and bump. With a camera equipped on its head and a neck that used to transmit the pictures this robot is a perfect office robot to keep an eye on employees. But the actual function of this robot in the office is used for video conference with internet capability. But his robot also used in some other areas like military applications.
MAC is the latest futuristic robot announced by Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). AFP launches its MAC (Mechanical Anti-terrorist Concept) with PhP 1.7 million. It is a Philippine anti terrorist robot concept. The developer of this Philippine anti terrorist robot, Mapua Institute of Technology is still working on cheaper MAC with additional features. The head of the team, John Judilla stated that they would make the brand new version MAC which is able to be operated underwater and able to go up and down the staircases. The Philippine anti terrorist robot MAC is in progress
The original source of this article is taken from Quirky China News. A Chinese farmer named Wu Yulu demonstrated his Wu No. 25. Over 30 years Wu Yulu that only has a basic school education had created 26 robots. He designed the robot and built it alone. For the material needed in building the robot he used available materials only. He said to the Beijing Times, “When I was 11, one day I was sitting on the doorstep, and while watching villagers passing by I suddenly came up with an idea of building a machine that walks like a man,”
Another robot perhaps still controlled by mouse on computer and keyboard on computer. Let say they still using the conventional technology in controlling the robot. fuRo has developed the new invention to make human closer to robotic. WIND stands for Wireless Intelligent Networked Device by fuRo will create a new device in controlling robot. This wireless control system works by using the Sip (System in Package).
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