Does your speaker dock pick music for you, create new compositions, follow your movements around the room and dance with you? No? Then it’s time to Shimi. More than just a speaker doc, the new Shimi – named after the dance move, the “Shimmy” and developed by a team of roboticists from Georgia Tech, IDC Herzliya and the MIT Media Lab – is an i... continue reading
New artificial muscles made from nanotech yarns and infused with paraffin wax can lift more than 100,000 times their own weight and generate 85 times more mechanical power than the same size natural muscle, according to scientists at The University of Texas at Dallas and their international team from Australia, China, South Korea, Canada and Bra... continue reading
The Illinois Institute of Technology’s Robotics Lab is working on an interesting variation of the popular quadrotor flying robot. They’ve added a rolling cage that allows the robot to roll along the ground as well as fly. Why would you want to do that? Because rolling requires a lot less power than flying. From the researchers: Experimental r... continue reading
Tools: Soldering Iron Laptop AVR related programming software Materials: LEDs LDRs 2 Wheels Metal Chasis 1 Castor Wheel 2 DC motors 1 Development Board 1 Microcontroller (Atmega 16) Motor Driver (L293D) Relimates Potentiometers Problem Statement of Lumos: Build one or more autonomous robot(s) that can different... continue reading
Robots and dinosaurs have not, historically, had the greatest of relationships, but that doesn’t mean we don’t all secretly (or not so secretly) want our own robot dinos to cuddle, ride around on, and provide security. Paleontologists have decided that they’re going to try to build themselves anatomically correct and fully functional robot din... continue reading
For all the events of Robotix 2013, visit: www.robotix.in For registrations: Visit Kshitij website: http://www.ktj.in/ Register on the website by clicking ‘register’ in the top right corner of the home page. Fill in all the details. The following window will appear. Click on ‘sign in’ in the top ... continue reading
Ever wanted to play Jacques Cousteau and explore the briny depths? Well you may not have a full crew and a sweet ship like the Calypso, but now you can survey the seven seas (or the lake near your house), with the HydroView from Aquabotix. And not even get wet. An easy-to-use underwater vehicle that you control with an iPad, smartphone or lap... continue reading
This is not the first sticky-treaded robotank, but it’s the first one that can manage to go around corners and make that tricky transition from horizontal to vertical. The somewhat unfortunately named “Tailless Timing Belt Climbing Platform” (or TBCP-11) comes from Simon Frasier University way up there in Canada. It weighs 240 grams, and has n... continue reading
The latest version of HAL(Hybrid assistive Limb) is displayed at the Japan Robot Week exhibition in Tokyo. The body suit manufactured by Cyberdyne, which is the brainchild of Yoshiyuki Sankai, can be used by the workers at the Fukushima plant. The plant which witnessed one of the worst nuclear disasters, is being cleaned up by workers wearing of... continue reading
Jumping offers a way for very small robots to get over very large obstacles using a minimal amount of energy. It’s tricky, though, because while the first jump might be pretty easy, subsequent jumps depend on the ability of the robot to right itself, aim, and go again. That’s essentially three separate subsystems, but since you’re only ever us... continue reading