‘Avatar’ is one of the biggest blockbuster movies directed by James Cameron. It has earned such achievements that, professor Susumu Tachi from Keio University’s Graduate School has been working at his laboratory in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo, Japan since long in order to make a robot that can mimic the movements of its human controller.
Max Shepherd (YouTube user name sumthinelse5790) has made a robotic hand successfully out of Legos. Here, Max Shepherd displays the entire range of motion of the human hand amazingly. The main purpose of this arm is to accurately mimic the full range of motion of a normal human arm and hand. The Lego robotic arm is especially made to grab things.
Since long, we have been hearing and catching the glimpses of iRobot’s 710 Warrior ground robot. This is a different type of robot which more powerful to tow a car. It looks like a tank shape and specially designed to be a Generalist. The robot can ride on caterpillar tracks, climb stairs, cover rough terrain and perform tasks with its two-meter-long mechanical arm. Two special prototype was deployed to Fukushima prefecture to assist with the radiation cleanup after the earthquake in Japan in last year.
KickStarter projects have become very popular and fashionable in the last year. Most might start off slowly at first, but when you think about it, the website is a gold mine for glorious ideas. Like the Robo, the robot with the smartphone brain. Smartphones today are accurately portrayed as tiny portable computers, so Keller Rinaudo and his team decided to use the power of the smartphone and do something different and unique.
Aspiring people who prefer sending camera, robot or something else instead of taking risk of their life can now afford a flying robot. This flying robot is being called Eye3 Hexacopter. Eye3 is a project to create a low cost aerial drone. Eye3 hexacopter is specially made for using in aerial photography. Kickstarter Kellie Sigler and her husband have designed this Eye3 flying hexacopter robot. Basically it is a drone and you can afford this flying robot.
In order to expand the health care industry, giant Robotics company iRobot has made a new Robot named ‘Ava’. Ava is an app ready robot. Being said that, its autonomous mobility will provide a performance advantage. iRobot has already invested $6 million to make perform this robot in the health care industry as soon as possible.
Invention is a word to Engineers and Tinkerers who never tires of creating something different. It like a liquor to them. This time, can anyone guess, what such crazy or different things have been created? It’s a baby Robot that actually does the same thing(act) just like a human baby usually does at birth time or his early period.
Teams of researchers from University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Washington put their minds together and came up with Raven II, a system inspired by a model designed for military use. Raven II is a complex system consisting of two robot arms, a camera, and interface for the surgeon and it can be used for online telesurgery.