List of posts with the tag: Robot

This video shows versions of DARPA and Boston Dynamics robots climbing stairs (wearing shoes), walking on a treadmill and doing pushups. I is interesting to see how it climbs the stairs with the help of one arm. Boston Dynamics developed the PETMAN Robot and is now adapting it for use by the DARPA Maximum Mobility…

The video is not HD but it is 480p, it was recently uploaded too YouTube by Pete Miser (this 2011). Scent of a Robot is a great hip-hop song from 2004 (part of the album Camouflage Is Relative), it is about an office worker than one day discovers that he is not human but a…

These are the new Autobots Wreckers that transform into Nascar Racing Cars loaded with a lot of guns and machinery, now we can see with good detail each robot version: Leadfoot: Red

Sentinel Prime’s CGI for Transformers 3, showed him with a shield, and it kinda looks like a robot from the anime Mobile Suit Gundam Wing (1995). Not only the shield looks similar, but also the pointy shoulders, the antennas over the head, and the giant feet.

The Facebook user for Transformers 3 is: www.facebook.com/transformers3 turned to be a japanese girl and not a profile of a movie with giant robots fighting in 3D: Mabeline Elisha likes to play Restaurant City

The RoboEarth-project exploits a new approach towards endowing robots with advanced perception and action capabilities, thus enabling robots to carrying out useful tasks autonomously in circumstances that were not planned for explicitly at design time. The core of the innovation proposed by the consortium involves the development of a world-wide web-style database: RoboEarth. RoboEarth will…

The Vstone Robovie, also known as Kumotek KT-X is sold for $1,500 and provides for some pretty impressive programmable moves, specially dancing and ninja moves. It is bluetooth controlled. The robot comes with an easy to use (so they say) programming interface for inventing new moves, triggering more sounds and doing more fun things with…

Teams of quadrotors (flying drones) autonomously build tower-like cubic structures from modular parts using Artificial Intelligence. Work done by Quentin Lindsey, Daniel Mellinger, and Vijay Kumar at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania.

The company Robo Builder is selling this Robot building kit for around $840 which allows the user to build a robot in any of 5 or more configurations, as normal robot, spider, dog, dinosaur or car configurations, and then program it’s movements and it has some sensors too. It takes in average 1 hour to…

This robot girl is the HRP-4C. The dancing robot invasion is coming from Japan !!! The robot was developed at a cost of $2 million dollars by Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). This is the first humanoid robot to walk on two feet. HRP-4C’s muscles run on a series of…

The marketing team for the 3D animated film Megamind have had the great idea to advertise in Farmville, the biggest social games on Facebook. Just for today if you enter to your Farm you will have Megamind as a new neighbor and when you choose to visit his farm (the above screenshot), you will receive…

Adult Swim’s enchanting tour de force Robot Unicorn Attack takes a mystical journey into darkness. Gallop through a treacherous landscape of bones and talons, unleashing your wrath on exploding pentagrams and floating demons to the punishing sounds of “Battlefield” by legendary German metal gods Blind Guardian. Because sometimes you just need a rainbow and sometimes…