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First ever astronaut robot is being sent to the International Space Station
A talking robot known as Kirobo will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) in order to accompany astronauts taking long journeys into space. Kirobo will be the first ever talking robot in space and he will be joined by ...
Chinese man builds awesome 12-foot mech robot (sort of) [Image]
Technically, this is more of a statue than a robot since it doesn't actually work. But that doesn't take away from its awesomeness.
Veebot is a robot capable of drawing your blood, with potentially better accuracy than humans
A startup company by the name of Veebot is currently testing a prototype of a robot which is capable of drawing blood. The robot has the potential to choose the best vein at a higher rate than an experienced phlebotomist — t...
Meet Carl, the robot bartender
Meet Carl, a humanoid robot who also happens to be a part time bartender at the Robots Bar and Lounge in Ilmenau, Germany. Ben Schaefer, a mechatronics engineer of 23 years, constructed Carl using unused industrial robots acquired...
Meet RHex, a robot that can do double jumps, flips, pullups, and more
RHex (pronounced “Rex”) stands for robot hexapod. RHex is a six-legged robot which is capable of negotiating all types of terrain and the researchers working on this project at the University of Pennsylvania hope one d...
Take a look at this robotic industrial mixing system [Video]
The industrial mixing robot displayed in the video below is quite remarkable. Developed by OMC, it is a multi-axis, multi-directional robot which rotates a container along 2 axes thus mixing and stirring much more quickly than con...
This crab-like robot can swim 6,000 meters (19,600 ft) underwater
Underwater exploring robots have been around for decades, but not many are capable of withstanding the strong currents of the sea floor. This means the use of these robotic swimmers are quite limited, but everything could change f...
This robot takes care of laboratory mice
A robot being developed by a Nikko Technos and Yaskawa Electric is capable of circumventing human interaction in order to take care of up to 300, 000 lab mice. In addition to saving researchers tons of hours it will be much less l...
Awesome robot does an awesome quadruple backflip. Yep. [Video]
The title says it all.
Meet ATLAS, a six-foot robot — otherwise known as ‘A Large Humanoid Robot’
Meet ATLAS — a six-foot-two 330 pound robot which apparently surprisingly enough is designed solely for the purpose of taking part in a robot challenge. ATLAS is a collaboration between the Boston Dynamics and the US militar...
Carnegie Mellon University has developed an awesome modular snake-like robot
In the earlier part of this year, Carnegie Mellon University was able to test out a modular snake-like robot at an abandoned nuclear power plant. The robot was developed by the University’s Biorobotics lab and is intended to...
ERO is a robot that eats concrete, makes it easier to demolish buildings
Omer Haciomeroglu was recently awarded an IDSA International Design Excellence award for his concept for a robot — known as the ERO Concrete Recycling Robot — which if it comes to fruition, will be able to break down c...
There’s a video game where you play as a Roomba; it’s free and you should play it now
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a Roomba and vacuum the floors of people’s rooms? No? Well, with Robot Vacuum Simulator 2013, you can find out anyway! The game is surprisingly not the first of its kind in ...
Master Janken robot beats all humans in Rock, Paper, Scissors
Though Rock, Paper, Scissors might sound childish to many, in Japan it has just the same importance as tossing a coin in the US has in regards to making decisions. So, in Japan, having a Rock, Paper, Scissors master robot on your ...