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Lizard motion influencing design of search and rescue robots

Robert Full, a professor at University of California at Berkeley, believes that by studying the motion of animals, we can better design robots for search and rescue missions. In this video, SmartPlanet visits his lab to look at its robot, Tailbot, and the Agama lizard that inspired it.

Zipwhip Powers World’s First Text-Enabled Espresso Machine

Zipwhip introduces the first text based espresso machine, which is powered by receiving texts via the web. This robotic barista is one of its kind and is has not been built for the commercial market yet. Seated at their Seattle headquarters, this Zipwhip machine comes with a plate to keep the coffee hot and an edible jet printer to have a nice little design added to the top layer of your coffee. The zipwhip app is now available for download for its other cloud based services on android. 

The Future of Cybernetics & Prosthetics

To celebrate the launch of critically acclaimed video game DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION, Square Enix commissioned filmmaker Rob Spence aka Eyeborg (a self proclaimed cyborg who lost an eye replaced it with a wireless video camera) to investigate prosthetics, cybernetics and human augmentation. How far are we from the future presented to us in DEUS EX: HUMAN REVOLUTION?

The Startup Incubator For Soccer-Playing, Synchronized Flying Robots

Filled with teams of engineers, programmers, mathematicians and Penn students, GRASP Labs is an incubation center for y3k technology such as bots, humanoids and electronic drones that can play sports, perform surgery, and fly in insect-like swarms. Members of GRASP (General Robotics Automation, Sensing, And Perception) believe the next batch of innovations will be seen in the artificial intelligence space and they want to be part of this bionic revolution. 

Giant Robot Arm Creates Halo: Reach Light Sculpture

A web interface will let gamers manipulate a Kuka industrial robot to create a virtual monument to Spartan warriors in the run-up to Halo: Reach.

Video: Robotic cheetah is fastest land robot in the world.

This robotic cheetah can run up to 18 miles per hour (29kmh). It was developed by Boston Dynamics (who also created this awesome Big Dog), with funding from DARPA’s Maximum Mobility Manipulation program.

Average adults can run up to around six or seven miles per hour, or over short distances up to 23mph (That’s the speed of world record holder Usain Bolt over 100m). But humans tire quickly, whereas this robot is only limited by it’s power supply. Lets hope it doesn’t get teeth, claws and a hydrogen fuel cell.

(via 8bitfuture)

Source kottke.org

Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme | University of Pennsylvania

Flying robot quadrotors perform the James Bond Theme by playing various instruments including the keyboard, drums and maracas, a cymbal, and the debut of an adapted guitar built from a couch frame. The quadrotors play this “couch guitar” by flying over guitar strings stretched across a couch frame; plucking the strings with a stiff wire attached to the base of the quadrotor. A special microphone attached to the frame records the notes made by the “couch guitar”.

These flying quadrotors are completely autonomous, meaning humans are not controlling them; rather they are controlled by a computer programed with instructions to play the instruments.

Penn’s School of Engineering and Applied Science is home to some of the most innovative robotics research on the planet, much of it coming out of the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, including this one.

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Nevada approves “Robot Drivers License” law. From March 1 this year if you see a red license plate in Nevada, it means the driver is a robot! Pushed through mainly for Google’s robotic car program, AB511 will allow automated vehicles to legally drive on all roads, provided they meet the regulations of the new law. That includes paying a US$1-3 million insurance bond per car, and providing a detailed report on what is being tested in each car. The automated vehicles will have red plates, and once the research is complete the cars will be issued neon green plates - meaning they are fully licensed to self-drive.

Nevada approves “Robot Drivers License” law.

From March 1 this year if you see a red license plate in Nevada, it means the driver is a robot!

Pushed through mainly for Google’s robotic car program, AB511 will allow automated vehicles to legally drive on all roads, provided they meet the regulations of the new law. That includes paying a US$1-3 million insurance bond per car, and providing a detailed report on what is being tested in each car.

The automated vehicles will have red plates, and once the research is complete the cars will be issued neon green plates - meaning they are fully licensed to self-drive.

(via 8bitfuture)

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Robotic dinosaurs to be made with 3D printers. Palaeontologists at Drexel University are using 3D printers to reconstruct dinosaur skeletons, which will be animated using robotics to see how the dinosaurs might have moved and behaved. The team is first using a 3D scanner to analyse existing bones, before using a 3D printer to construct an exact replica of the skeleton. A mechanical engineer is working with the team to develop the robotic side of the project, but the 3D printing will also allow them to create small-scale models for educational use, and to create exact-size replicas for museum display, without the limitation on the number of copies made and materials and storage hassles of traditional casting methods. The first goal is to have a working robotic dinosaur limb constructed by the end of 2012. A complete robotic dinosaur replica will take one to two years to create. While 3D printers have been available for a few years, they have been slow to catch on with home users, instead finding niche markets like in medicine, where they have been used to print organs and tailored prosthetics for patients. The Pirate Bay launched a new category for 3D designs last month, predicting a world where “you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.” Who knows, maybe in the zoo of the future we will be wearing downloaded Nike shoes and watching a robotic Tyrannosaurus chase a newly cloned woolly mammoth!

Robotic dinosaurs to be made with 3D printers.

Palaeontologists at Drexel University are using 3D printers to reconstruct dinosaur skeletons, which will be animated using robotics to see how the dinosaurs might have moved and behaved.

The team is first using a 3D scanner to analyse existing bones, before using a 3D printer to construct an exact replica of the skeleton. A mechanical engineer is working with the team to develop the robotic side of the project, but the 3D printing will also allow them to create small-scale models for educational use, and to create exact-size replicas for museum display, without the limitation on the number of copies made and materials and storage hassles of traditional casting methods.

The first goal is to have a working robotic dinosaur limb constructed by the end of 2012. A complete robotic dinosaur replica will take one to two years to create.

While 3D printers have been available for a few years, they have been slow to catch on with home users, instead finding niche markets like in medicine, where they have been used to print organs and tailored prosthetics for patients. The Pirate Bay launched a new category for 3D designs last month, predicting a world where “you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.”

Who knows, maybe in the zoo of the future we will be wearing downloaded Nike shoes and watching a robotic Tyrannosaurus chase a newly cloned woolly mammoth!

(via 8bitfuture)

Source drexel.edu

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