Robotics Archives
PIGORASS: The robot that can Walk, Jump and even Gallop
Yasunori Yamada a Student of Masters and his engineering team, from the University of Tokyo has developed a musculoskeletal systems of animals called PIGORASS during a robotics study. This robot can walk, jump and even gallop. Galloping is a state where all four feet are not touching the ground at the same time. Team members who worked on PIGORASS robot are Yasunori Yamada, Satoshi Nishikawa, Kazuya Shida and Yasuo Kuniyoshi at the...
Home Assistant Robot (HAR) by Toyota
Scientists at Tokyo University in collaboration with Toyota Corporation have developed a regular household robot “Home Assistant Robot” (HAR). In contrast to the "recreational" development, to show the possibilities of modern cybernetics, the robot could be useful in everyday life. He can do simple work at home, for example, wipe the floor, washing, cleaning dishes and even move the furniture. HAR robot moves on two chassis (plus extra w...
NEC Robot – RFID Based E-Payment Solution
Since electronic money becoming more popular in the Japan, various reading devices like FeliCa RFID, supporting different types of e-currency, appearing in stores and in vending machines are built. The company introduced the NEC payment terminal FeliCa, in the form of robot's real size. This robot was presented at a recent exhibition iEXPO in Tokyo. Mass production and application of the robot can begin very soon, because the technology alread...
Robovie – X PRO
Two-legged robot Robovie-X PRO is much faster than its predecessor and has high-torque momentary servomotor and a gyroscopic sensor as the accelerometer. This robot has many methods which can surprise, for example, the one that is referred in the video. The robot will be sold by the company early next year at a cost of USD $3300. [gallery] ...
Twendy One–Robot To Prepare Your Breakfast
The world of engineering and technology can lead to any level. As proof of this, developers, scientists from the University of Vaseba in Tokyo, Japan, created a robot that can bring you breakfast in bed. His hands are so sensitive that when dealing with bread robot crumbles it. The Robot named “Twendy One”, and he has the size of the average person. The robot will appear in 2015, and perhaps he will be able to perform tasks that today peop...
I-Limb-An Artificial Arm
Student Reynolds, who lost his arm in a terrible car accident, told a Scottish technology company allowed him to once again begin to make hundreds of everyday things that once he perceived self-evident. Artificial arm i-Limb has built engines that provide more accurate and higher sensitivity compared to other prosthetic devices. This arm is mounted to the amputees and a rechargeable battery and sensors that track currents in the muscles, which...
New Advancement In The Field Of Artificial Eyes (Part 2)
In the next step they moved already fabricated central plane array and associated electronics from a silicon wafer to the tensioned membrane that is stretched taut over a drum. When this tension is free, the membrane attains its formal form. This procedure presses the focal plane arrangement. As a result of this electrical interconnects, which are especially designed, delaminate from the rubber surface and make arcs, fastened on the ends b...
New Advancement In The Field Of Artificial Eyes (Part 1)
Scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University developed electronic-eye camera. The 7th august publish of Nature – a journal – described that scientists have succeeded in preparing a superior, hemispherical “eye” camera. This camera is employing a number of single-crystalline silicon sensors and electronics. Those components are set up in a stretchable and interlinked mesh. These scientists ...
Tiny Scanner Will Be Used To Monitor Astronauts Mental Health
The working schedules are extremely heavy in space as they remain in touch with the earth centers with the video connections and astronauts have a little time to enjoy their private time. The situation is very tense in space strong mental health is needed there. In a near future, doctors would be able to look into an astronaut space life through portable brain scanner. This could be highly helpful in examining the mental health of the astr...
Robots To Replace Men In Space For Repair Work
In space there would be more robots and fewer astronauts in the coming time. This is the idea given by three European aerospace engineers who believe that the crewed satellites sent to repair missions are much expensive and wasteful as we saw recently astronauts flown by NASA to repair the Hubble Space Telescope which cost much high. These three scientists are Alex Ellery, Joerg Kreidsel and Bernd Sommer. The statement was given in the jour...
Aircraft Stays in the Air for five Years
DARPA is going to sign a contract to engineer an unmanned aircraft that would be able to remain in the air for continuous five years; that was a statement given by the officials of Flight Global. The representatives from DARPA gave it the name of “Vulture”. They characterized their creation by saying that it would be having pseudo-satellite features. The aircraft would be able fly over a specific area with full capabilities of communicatin...
Structure Of Robots Part Three
Walking robots is a difficult study.Robots can walk on two legs,Recent robots can not move on a surface that is not smooth. The methods that have been applied to this study are: Zero Moment Point Technique (ZMP Technique) This algorithm is used in Asimo which is a honda product. The computer of the robot tried to keep the total gravity acceleration and deceleration forces of walking (called inertial forces), these inertial forces are ...
Structure Of Robots Part Two
Robots Manipulation The Robots require moving its body parts to affect the objects, such as they can lift objects, change objects, and destroy objects. Here I will define the hands and arms of a robot. The hands are called effectors and the arms are called manipulators. Robots use different kinds of strength grippers. Vacuum type, Simple type and Effectors. Vacuum Grippers These kinds of grippers can hold very large amount of loads. ...
Structure Of Robots Part One
Robotics is the technology and sciences of robots; it is all about their design, manufacture, and application. Robotics requires knowledge of software, mechanics and electronics. A person working in this,is a roboticist. The robotics are mechanical, from structural point of view (kinematic chain: Like human body structure). The chain (bones) is composed of links, its muscles called actuators it’s its joints allow it to move in more than o...
