Any new technology to help locate and help people who have been trapped in collapsed buildings has got to be a good thing. If the technology comes in the form of a cool snake then so much the better. Investigators in the US have working on a robot which is built like a snake and which could come in very useful in future search and rescue missions. Dogs and Snakes Working...
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If you saw a giant robotic dog throwing breeze blocks around the place you would get pretty scared, wouldn’t you? Well, you better stay away from the research centre and testing grounds of Boston Dynamics then. One of the robots they are developing looks kind of like a dog and is quite big, so they cleverly named it BigDog. The development of the device has been backed...
Isn’t it great when we read about a gadget which is actually really useful? Don’t get us wrong, we love frivolous Star Wars alarm clocks and multimedia socks as much as the next person but we do also like to see technology which helps people’s lives. For example, researchers in the US have managed to use a paralysed lady’s thoughts to give her an incredible level...
We love weird robots. We aren’t so keen on poo but sometimes you have just got to take the good with the bad it seems. Scientists in the fair city of Bristol have been working on a robot which runs off human sewage for a while and now their messy work seems to be nearing an end. The robot in question is called Ecobot III, which suggests to us that there are a couple...
Foxconn, the manufacturer who makes a wide range of Apple products, including the iPod Touch and iPhone, currently employs 1.2 million workers in China. The company has announced that they will be replacing a large portion of their workforce with robots. Foxconn already has over 10,000 robots working on the production line, and have said that it will expand to more than...
A star attraction at the CES 2011 is the new iRobot telepresence robot known as Ava. It certainly makes for a striking image as it can adjust itself from 3 feet up to a maximum height of 5 feet tall and greets passersby with a tablet where you would expect to see a head. It is built on top of a base with three wheels and includes an advanced environment mapping system...
A touch sensitive skin may not sound all that ground breaking a development but in reality it has applications both in robotics and prosthetics. A mass of semiconductors are placed within the ultra thin mesh material and transmits and receives data so that, in the future and following further development, robots fitted with the technology would be able to lightly grip...
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