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Hiroshi Ishiguro a Japanese professor from University of Osaka unveiled his robots at a Peruvian University last February. All of the robots being unveiled at conference in Lima, Peru, given different ability. Two of them were able to play football, another two robots were able in wrestling or sumo and three robot like to make music as explained by Aurelio Padilla the president of the National Engineering University. Here at this conference not …
It seems that everything is possible for Japanese. While other countries in the world were trying to create best way of powering their underwater robot the Japanese already worked on their smaller under water robot that powered with hydrogen. This underwater robot designed in a fish shape with the fuel cell inside the transparent body. Osaka City University’s academics were the designer of this robot fish. Their hydrogen-powered robot fish hydro…
As you can see from the images below ARI-100 is a wheel based robot. This robot is designed for pipe cleaning and inspection. Equipped with articulated arm that move in all direction this robot can clean all the corners and spots. This robot can replace the manual works in cleaning the pipe that takes more time and energy. Moreover this robot is an easy device to be operated and controlled. Robot Design designed this durable and resilient robot …
Olivia is a name of a social robot from Singapore. This robot was recently unveiled by the Singaporean researches from A*STAR Social Robotics Laboratory. The Singaporean social robot Olivia is able to talk and move its sleek six-degrees-of-freedom arms. Olivia was designed as a platform robot for human-robot interaction. A*STAR Social Robotics Laboratory or ASORO, a part of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, as the creator…
Next for the number 5 world’s best robot ever built is the Da Vinci Surgical System. Introduced in 1999 this surgical system change the whole concept about operating room. The most innovative system on this robot is the robotic arms used on this robot that developed in replicating doctor’s hands perfectly. In number 4 NASA takes part with their Mars rover robots Opportunity and Spirit. Both robots are the robots that sent to Red Planet in 2003 t…
This is another helping robot that could help disable people in eat time. The caregiver robot named My Spoon. This robot weighted 6kg and measured at 28cm x 37cm x 25cm and will be real helpful equipment for disable in their dinning table. This robot is like an arm robot that holds a spoon. This robot could be applied to all types of daily foods. There will be no special packets required in this robot because it already has a food packet. There …
How if there is a robot that falls in love with you and it also can be jealous to you. It seems so impossible in hearing about a robot can understand about love and has its emotional feeling like human being. However, Hooman Samani who is supported by some researchers from National University of Singapore has introduced robot love Lovotics, a robot that has the capability to imitate the human’s habit in the way of loving. The robot love Lovot…
Sega and Hasbro manufactured a robot that cuold be a great companion ship for dance. This robot was an innovative dance partner solution for Japanese men. The 15 inch tall dance robot called as Automated Music Personality Robot or AMP. The Automated Music Personality Robot built to be sold in Japan and US for $754. In order to complete features for the dancing robot the manufacturers added stereo speakers to the robot. How do this Automated Musi…
Mahru III is a new biped humanoid robot that was unveiled by the Samsung and Korean Institute of Science and Technology in 2007. Mahru stands in 150cm tall and weights 62kg. It was said that this robot is made in order to create a robot that human can use to help their daily life but what make it special is that this robot is connected to the wireless network environment. It can be said that Mahru III is a platform robot for future household r…
This is the robot that will assist the nurse in nursing the patient. RIKEN-TRI Collaboration Center for Human Interactive Robot Research collaborates with RIKEN and Tokai Rubber Industries, Ltd. developing this nurse-robot. This nursing robot called RIBA. Instead of a robot with nurse appearance this robot is a bear face robot. So do not you hope has a nurse robot take care of you! This robot functioned to lift or set down person from wheel ch…
Cycler was one of the classic model robots. Designed and constructed by David Buckley this robot works by handler who is controlling the robot to do task. In making this robot move, David uses seven electric motors. While for the ability to talk David uses MP3 sound file player, amplifier, and speakers. The handler that is used in to control this robot allows Cycler to move its arms, drive around, move its head, and make an interactive dialog. This robot also has an in-built personality program, this program allows Cycler looks around, moves, and flashes it eyes, moves its head and arms.
Bellow photos are taken from the robot statue made in China. What makes this robot statue special is that the material used in building the robot. An old green truck used to be the material of this robotic Transformers like. This China’s work of art comes from Guan Gong where the statue stands in 9.7 meter tall. This statue weights around 4 ton and costs nearly 30 millions.
This is the article about the great spy in times. The autobots Bumblebee travel trough space and time to get you to the highest fun. This figure will act just like what you have imagined. His features like Cyber Stompin can bring the real Bumblebee to your life with battle sound. He can make voices like crashing and speech. His eyes and chest completed with lights to give the battle effect on your room. He is ready to crash all the Decepticon. This toy is designed for 4 years old children.
In 2003 Walt Disney Imagineering created a raptor-like robot named Lucky. This robot awarded as the Coolest Inventions in 2003 by TIME magazine. The Raptor here is not a wild flesh eaten one but a friendly fellow that stands in 9 ft tall. This friendly fellow robot could walk around, laugh, sneeze, smile, yell, and sometimes it does hiccups! It interacts with children and family. This robot is Disney first audio animatronics dinosaur that walks around freely and interacts with people.
It was a real floating bed that entered the 2006 Best Inventions of TIME magazine. It was obvious fact that the Janjaap Ruijssenaars creation could float above floor. The trick is magnet. Using a set of magnet that was planted in the bed and the floor the creator could make this bed hovering. This magnet strength is powerful enough to take 2,000lbs of weight. The idea came from the monolith in the movie of A Space Odyssey in 2001. The most important thing is that the magnet used in this bed is a safe area for people.
Have you seen the ad video bellow? This ad belongs to Alfa Romeo where in the video you could see how freaky when people being followed by moving banners. The stalker ad robots were put in a shopping mall where many people walking around. There were three kinds of robot were used on this funny ad, there were triangle ad robot, big ad robot, and banner ad robot. The triangle and big ad robot were placed on the floor where they worked by following people and bothering them, like they wouldn’t loose from people’s legs.
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