Meet Tradinno, a fire-breathing 30-foot tall walking dragon robot [Video]
According to Guinness World Records, at 30 feet tall and 51 feet long, Tradinno is the largest walking robot. And it just so happens to be a dragon that can breathe fire.
Tag Archives: Robotics
Robotize yourself with this bioskin
Robotics and engineering have advanced so much over the past decade that it is now possible for a person to replace his/her amputated limbs with a robotic prosthetic limb, awesome, right? Sure it is lads and lassies. The downside ...
Japanese engineer spends 11 years creating giant 17-ton robotic bug
Sure, Microsoft bought Nokia’s mobile business and Google named their operating system after a chocolate bar but this is still the biggest thing I’ve seen all week. Literally. Hitoshi Takahashi is a Japanese engineer (...
Two teenage sisters recreate Mars rover
Everyone wants to build a robot; however, when two sisters manage to pull it off who have yet to pass the age of 14, you know this is something special. Camille and Genevieve Beatty are both 13 and 11 years old respectively, and t...
These aren’t alligators, they are termigators [Amazing Photo of the Day]
Mechanical alligator = termigator.
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 ...
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...
Robotic skin emits light when touched
What if each time someone or something touched your skin, it lit up like a rainbow or celestial light. Well, that won’t happen to humans any time soon, but it will happen to robots in the years to come. Scientists at the Universit...
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...
Incredibly lifelike spider robot can be yours for $1350
Everyone wants their own little robot friend, it has been that way since we were children. Well, that dream is now a possibility, but to make it happen, you’ll need a maximum of $1,350 in the bank. This particular a robot is a lif...
Japan is bringing robots to the International Space Station, hopefully nobody gets killed in the process [Video]
On August 4, the Japan Space Agency will be launching a mission to the International Space Station. The mission is billed to be the “world’s first conversational experiment between humans and robots in space.” So...