077.R62.LittleDog’ Robot
LittleDog’ Robot. The Last Time we Saw the “LittleDog”, we Called him “Cute”. Now, here he is Nearly a Year Later and as you Can See, DARPA’s Experimental Robot Dog, Has Gotten a Lot More Graceful, Even Over the Rockiest of Terrain. Now, we Can Justifiably Call him Something between Uncanny and Scary. Most of […]
076.R61.Jumping robot
Jumping robot. Jumping and Rolling Robot Can Handle Any Terrain. Rhodri Armour, a PhD student from the University of Bath, has invented a robot that he hopes will be a model for future space exploration and land surveying robots. Called the Jollbot, it’s a spherical robot that rolls over smooth terrain and jumps “like a […]
075.R60.Micro air vehicle
Micro air vehicle. A video camera with wings is the way this little Micro Air Vehicle has been described (although no wings are in sight). It is set to become a part of some soldiers kit bags to help them do a little recon before heading into battle. >link
074.R59.Grasshoppers
Jumping Micro-robot Inspired By Grasshoppers. Researchers from the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems at EPFL are unveiling a novel, grasshopper-inspired jumping robot at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation May 21 in Pasadena, California. >link >video >video
071.R58.Omni whell
Omni wheels or poly wheels, similar to mecanum wheels, are wheels with small discs around the circumference which are perpendicular to the rolling direction. The effect is that the wheel will roll with full force, but will also slide laterally with great ease. These wheels are often employed in holonomic drive systems. A platform employing […]
069.R56. Micro robot magnético volador
Los investigadores de la Universidad de Waterloo, en Ontario, han creado un micro robot que es capaz de volar mediante la utilización de campos magnéticos. Gracias a un arreglo de electroimanes, el pequeño dispositivo de solo un gramo de peso es capaz de moverse en cualquier dirección y girar sobre los tres ejes espaciales. >link
067.R54. Robot biomimicry
Scientists at the University of California Berkeley are convinced they are offering a breakthrough in robot design. Their study of living organisms has offered insights which they’ve adapted to the world’s first robotic cockroach, or, Robo Roach. Graham discovers how the ingenuity of nature may help develop technology that could finally bring about the robot […]
065.R52. Cockroach
…These researchers have used biomimicry of the cockroach, one of nature’s most successful species, to design and build sprawl-legged robots that can move very quickly (up to five body-lengths per second). In addition, these robots are very good at manoeuvring in changing terrain, and can continue forward motion when encountering hip-height obstacles or uphill and […]
064.R51. Stickybot
Este robot escalador es la última versión de StickyBot de Stanford, pesa tres cientos gramos y puede subir un cristal a cuatro centÃmetros por segundo. Es impresionante como el robot suelta sus dedos del pie similar a como lo hacen las verdaderas salamandras. Uno de los problemas más grandes para los desarrolladores, ha sido tratar […]
063.R50. Semillas de arce
El profesor Ned Allen se inspiró en el vuelo de las semillas de arce al caer del árbol, para diseñar este nano-vehÃculo aéreo que funciona con control remoto y que ha sido utilizado en diversas misiones militares del DARPA y en la investigación del clima. >link
052.R39. Aerospace Vehicle
Aircraft of the future will not be built of traditional, multiple, mechanically connected parts and systems. Instead, aircraft wing construction will employ fully-integrated, embedded “smart” materials and actuators that will enable aircraft wings with unprecedented levels of aerodynamic efficiencies and aircraft control. Able to respond to the constantly varying conditions of flight, sensors will act […]
050.R37. Triciclo magnético
Campo magnético motriz. Este es el concepto de vehÃculo que nos plantea Matus Prochaczka, diseñador eslovaco, que mira con optimismo el uso del campo magnético en nuestras carreteras. Dejando a un lado la estética del vehÃculo, algo cinematográfica, la idea es que sea propulsado mediante un motor eléctrico pero apoyándose en paneles magnéticos que requieren […]
