Robotic watch

Jellyfish males now have competition for the affections of jellyfish girls.



What possible uses would this kind of robot serve? Underwater surveillance?

Festo Jelly

[edit on 5.16.08 by toreishi]

The Perfect Woman



The perfect woman? Perfect woman don't look like that.

Male version available soon. Huh!?

Is this for real?

Robo-monkeys use brain power to grab a bite



Creepy and disturbing in a lot of ways, but nevertheless this experiment is for a good cause.

Somehow I just don't like this at all.

[edit on Wed, 28 May 08 by Jazzyguy]

Scheme to Let Robot Take Over Brain-Computer Interface

20 May 2008—A group of mechanical engineers at Caltech have come up with a way to guide miniature robots in the task of inserting and positioning electrode arrays in brain tissue. What they propose would be the first robotic approach to establishing an interface between computers and the brain by positioning electrodes in neural tissue. Researchers say that this could enhance the performance and longevity of emerging neural prosthetics, which allow paralyzed people to operate computers and robots with their minds.

ODG, they're installing a Schriebmann port from Beneath a Steel Sky. This is definitely the age of science fictions coming true.

The prototype.



via Thought Criminal

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Let's continue from previous posts.


MQ-9 Reaper

(originally the RQ-9 Predator B) The MQ-9 is the Air Force's first hunter-killer UAV designed for long-endurance, high-altitude surveillance.

Terminator-style flying-HK killbots join US, UK forces

The M designation is for multi-mission platforms. Remember, the Reaper is one of the very first hunter-killer drones from the US Air Force. And just like its predecessor the Predator, it's a Tier II drone.

Awesome robotic water snake. It looks like they really nailed the movement, looks like a real snake or eel in terms of flowing body.

If you have a Firefox 3 browser, type about:robots into the address bar, you will see a robot easter egg.

More on flying insects.

Delfly Micro

The DelFly Micro only weighs 3 grams and has a size of 10 cm from wing tip to wing tip. This makes it the smallest flying ornithopter carrying a camera in the world!
The DelFly Micro is very useful for the progress of science. Designing it already brought together knowledge from fields such as aerodynamics, mechanics, electronics, and camera technology. Furthermore, the DelFly Micro is an ideal platform for studying both the aerodynamics and autonomy of small, flying ornithopters.

WowWee Flytech

This one is just for fun, not a spy insect.

Originally posted by Jazzyguy
The perfect woman? Perfect woman don't look like that.

Male version available soon. Huh!?

Is this for real?

Funny. Visit their website. When the virtual model of 'perfect woman' starts to strip, it/she crashes and the site also...and then the information box appears. I don't know french but I think it's 'Perfect woman does not exist. Go find yourself a real girlfriend you lazy bastard!'

Anyway, it's a good joke

And oh - it's a NIVEA advert xd

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Israel Developing Nuke-Hunting Drone

Israel is increasingly worried about the threat of a nuclear, missile-equipped Iran. So the Israeli military is working on "a high-fly­ing, long-endurance unmanned in­frared sensor" that can tell the difference between "nuclear war­heads amid doz­ens of decoys sent to confound na­tional missile defenses," Defense News' Barbara Opall-Rome reports. "If implemented, the Israeli program will mark the first use of an unmanned platform for [n]uclear warhead hunting."

Weapon Against Robot Defence Company

blogs.telegraph.co.uk...

Now Ben Way sees money to be made from "protecting us from the threats of a Robotic future". His business, WAR Defence claims to be developing products in three major areas: weapons systems against robots, detection and monitoring of robotic entities and ‘robo-viruses'. (Good grief!). Apparently, Way likes robots but doesn't want them to take over our lives. He thinks it is "critical that we begin talking now about the long-term ethical implications the robot revolution will surely bring".

Well, it has been a while since I post in this thread. Science and technology is actually my root, not politic or the economy. Although I get often dragged to political and economic issues in real life, it's nice to return home now and again.

Obama presidency is definitely breaking the glass ceiling.

Robot for president






Robot With A Biological Brain: New Research Provides Insights Into How The Brain Works

A multidisciplinary team at the University of Reading has developed a robot which is controlled by a biological brain formed from cultured neurons. This cutting-edge research is the first step to examine how memories manifest themselves in the brain, and how a brain stores specific pieces of data.

Robotic Haptic Feedback System for Bx/RFA of Breast Tumor under Continuous MRI

A Robot to destroy breast cancer cells by Roland Piquepaille

Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing a robot able to detect and destroy breast cancer cells in a single session. After a tumor is located on an MRI, the robot will perform a biopsy of the breast while the patient is inside the scanner. ‘If the biopsy displays cancerous cells, the robot will then insert a probe into the breast until it reaches the tumor. The probe will then burn the cancer cells until they are destroyed.’ This looks great, but the researchers have only built a prototype. After they refine this robot, they’ll need to go through clinical trials and obtain FDA approval. So this is not a robot that will appear on the medical market before several years.

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More flying spies reading, from wired.com

Robo-Fly, Built to Spy



Still from wired.com

Giant, Robotic Throwing Star, Designed to Spy



Plasma Propulsion for Palm-Sized Drones



Itty-Bitty, Plasma-Powered Flying Saucer



From Botjunkies

Mesicopter Meso-Scale Surveillance Bot

Lockheed Martin HULC Exoskeleton

The super-strength suit attaches to the wearers' legs, augmenting their power while shadowing their movement. According to Lockheed, HULC enables the wearer to carry up to 200 pounds without much effort — and sprint up to 10 miles per hour in short bursts. Lithium-ion batteries will keep the wearer walking at a normal pace for an hour. The companies also claim that there's a "long-range extended 72-hour mission model," which relies on JP8 jet fuel. But they didn't appear to show it off at the conference.

HULC won't boost arm strength, like Sarcos' all-body exoskeleton. But a shoulder strap does help with heavy lifting. And HULC doesn't need to be tethered to a power source, like Sarcos' suit does. Which means wearers can crawl and scamper around, uninhibited. HULC is also fairly easy to get on and off -- the thing "can be removed in 30 seconds," according to Defense News.

"The HULC can be fitted with armor plating, heating or cooling systems, sensors and 'other custom attachments,'" Lew Page notes. "We particularly liked that last one: our personal request would be a powered gun or missile mount of some kind above the shoulder, linked to a helmet or monocle laser sight."

Thanks to ggmania

Festo done it again.

The Aqua Penguin

That design has industrial applications, says Fischer. It has been adapted by Festo to make a flexible, trunk-like arm with a gripper on the end for use in industrial applications. The arm can twist up to 90° in any direction, giving it an unrivalled degree of dexterity.

Engineers are increasingly gaining inspiration from nature – earlier this year, a European-wide research group began work on a bionic octopus, and engineers think bird wings could help inspire more efficient aircraft.

The brand new trailer of Transformers 2 is just so cool.



Really extreme.



Boston Dynamics SquishBot

SquishBot is a program to develop a new class of soft, shape-changing robot. The goal is to design systems that can transform themselves from hard to soft and from soft to hard, upon command. Another goal is to create systems that change their critical dimensions by large amounts, as much as 10x. Such robots will be like soft animals that can squeeze themselves through small openings and into tight places.

DARPA Physical Intelligence

It won't have escaped alert Reg readers that the Physical Intelligence DARPA wonder-ware will be quite capable of becoming intelligent life - potentially much more capable life than humanity itself. The AI algorithms which evolve from the spontaneously self-organising Tetris blocks might far outclass the human noggin: the fuel-celled, solar-powered, self-medicating lifeforms which emerged from the smartware vats would be immeasurably our superiors physically.

DARPA Deep Learning

Renowned Pentagon tech-tomfoolery agency DARPA has announced a new plan to create mighty artificial intelligences. The so-called "Deep Learning" machines will be used to trawl through petabytes of video from robot aircraft prowling the skies - initially, apparently, seeking out threatening horses and cows.

I don't find it funny a bit. Machines evolve really fast, it's not that far fetched if there will be a major technological conflict in the future.

General Motor Robonaut 2 for NASA

GM’s engineers joined NASA’s eggheads under a Space Act agreement to develop a ‘bot capable of working alongside humans in factories and in space. That’s what they say, anyway. We suspect GM wanted to one-up Honda’s robotics program with a machine capable of curling 20-pound barbells.

They call it Robonaut 2, or R2, and say it is faster and more dexterous than the original Robonaut and other humanoid machines. GM and NASA spent three years working on it at Johnson Space Center in Houston. They’re still working on it, but the goal is creating a machine that works with the same speed and dexterity as a human. GM says that will lead to “safer cars and safer plants” while NASA says it will “help humans work and explore in space.”

And a little reminder.

DoD creates computerised alternate reality - SWS

Originally posted by SimonGray
I recently came across this news article about a piece of software called Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations - SEAS, which has been adopted and tailored by the Deparment of Defence into a simulation program called Sentient World Simulation.

The DOD is developing a parallel to Planet Earth, with billions of individual "nodes" to reflect every man, woman, and child this side of the dividing line between reality and AR.

Called the Sentient World Simulation (SWS), it will be a "synthetic mirror of the real world with automated continuous calibration with respect to current real-world information", according to a concept paper for the project.

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Re: The robot that can fly and then walk on land...

Why does it have to take off from such a high point? My rubber band plane can take off from the ground....

Why don't they make a set of wheels that drops when it is ready to take off? That way it can use a street or basically any short level surface for taking off?

You know like this...



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Re: The robot that can fly and then walk on land...

Why does it have to take off from such a high point? My rubber band plane can take off from the ground....

Probably because it has no wheels.

Why don't they make a set of wheels that drops when it is ready to take off? That way it can use a street or basically any short level surface for taking off?

Good point, perhaps it cannot handle the extra weight, or perhaps the creator just hasn't thought about that.