Showing posts with label robotics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label robotics. Show all posts

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Robot Bat doesn't suck (blood)

What is Bat Bot and Why Use it?

"In robotics, the bat is a challenging design because of all of the joints of this creature it is made to mimic. The flying mammal has been mimicked unlike ever before with Bat Bot, the world’s first bat robot. It has the appearance of a bat and acts like one too. But why does it exist – for what purpose?..."
 article by Christy Birmingham
whenbusinessinspire.com



Advanced Robotic Bat Can Fly Like the Real Thing


 


Sunday, February 5, 2017

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation | artdaily

World's most advanced android robots at The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation.
artdaily.com


Former astronaut and the director of the museum, Mamoru Mori (2nd R), and Osaka University professor Hiroshi Ishiguro (2nd L) pose with new female humanoid robots "Otonaroid" (R) and "Kodomoroid" (L) at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Technology in Tokyo on June 24, 2014. 

>>>more:  artdaily.com/news/71009/World-s-most-advanced-android-robots-at-The-National-Museum-of-Emerging-Science-and-Innovation

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Dragonfly Architecture

Not just weapons of destruction: How drones are being used to build the skyscrapers of the future which could house more than 30,000 people.
 Mail Online

A prototype has been created using miniature drones to lift 1,500 foam blocks into a complex cylindrical towe.




Flight Assembled Architecture Revisited, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, 2021-2022 from Gramazio Kohler Research on Vimeo.


Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Robonaut Operates Task Board in Space


"In the International Space Station's Destiny laboratory, Robonaut 2 is pictured on Jan. 2, during a round of testing for the first humanoid robot in space. Ground teams put Robonaut through its paces as they remotely commanded it to operate valves on a task board. Robonaut is a testbed for exploring new robotic capabilities in space, and its form and dexterity allow it to use the same tools and control panels as its human counterparts do aboard the station."  
Photo Credit nasa.gov


Thursday, June 14, 2012

10 Robots with Very Specific Tasks - Mental Floss


Mental Floss
"What do we want robots to do for us? The field of robotics is making great leaps in robot abilities, but these abilities come one at a time. We won’t have Rosie from The Jetsons until the various specific tasks are combined into one machine. When that happens, they will take over. But until then, you’ll have to choose the purpose of your robot, and hope it can do that specific task well. Here are some of the most recently-unveiled robots and what they can do..."  Miss Cellania


Flight Assembled Architecture


more: mentalfloss.com

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

In A Gadda Da Vida

Butterfly-Inspired Flying Robots


Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
 




The beautiful science of a butterfly's flight  


 "An undergraduate engineering student at Johns Hopkins University, Tiras Lin, has used high-speed, high-resolution cameras to gain a new perspective on the mechanics of a painted lady butterfly's flight patterns. Information gathered from his research may be used to construct better designs for micro aerial vehicles that could be used by the United States military."


Butterfly Flight Inspires Better Flying Robots

"Mechanical engineers aim high-speed video cameras at planet's prettiest bugs to obtain flight insights."


Links:
Johns Hopkins University
webapps.jhu.edu/
Unraveling a Butterfly’s Aerial Antics Could Help Builders of Bug-Size Flying Robots
releases.jhu.edu
Butterfly-Inspired Flying Robots
physicscentral.com


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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Robot Quadrotors Perform James Bond Theme



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".

Quadrotors Come to TED
Video by Kurtis Sensenig
Text by Evan Lerner upenn.edu