Where, oh where, is Rosie my robotic maid? (Video)
We’ve all been waiting for domestic robots to become a reality, probably as long as we’ve been waiting for personal jet-packs to revolutionize our daily commute.
Ellie Rountree, from Rocketboom, takes a look at the evolution of home robots from the early 1980’s until 2009, and wonders how much longer we might have to wait before Rosie, the Jetsons’ robotic maid relieves us of domestic drudgery.
’Where, oh where, is Rosie my robotic maid? (Video)’ continues
Micromouse robots viewed in slow motion (Video)
The latest generation of micromouse robots are lightening fast, so fast that it’s actually hard for camera people to track them.
The video clips below were captured during practice sessions for the 30th All Japan Micromouse Competition by Peter Harrison (Decimous) using a Casio FC100 camera set for 640x480 at 210 fps. While the high video frame rate effectively slows down the robots speed by a factor of 7X, the micromouse robots still seem to run surprisingly fast.
Watch for the mouse with extremely low ground clearance and four drive wheels towards the rear. That’s Kato’s TETRA robot design.
’Micromouse robots viewed in slow motion (Video)’ continues
Great King Kizer robot has a new career in pro wrestling (Video)
The slogan of ROBO-ONE from the very beginning has been “Humanoid Robot Entertainment”, and we have to admit that some of the stunts that occur during the competitions, whether planned or by accident, turn out to be totally hilarious. It’s also well known that the ROBO-ONE name itself is word play on K-1 wrestling, a very popular “sport” here.
So it was no surprise when the ROBO-ONE Gran Prix competition organizers setup a demonstration match between the robot event champion, New Great King Kizer and a human professional wrestler. What ensued may, or may not be, great wrestling, but it was funny and kept the audience laughing.
’Great King Kizer robot has a new career in pro wrestling (Video)’ continues
Nakamura's JO-ZERO robot sets a new performance standard (Video)
To the untrained eye, Motohiro Nakamura’s latest humanoid robot creation, JO-ZERO, may look just like any other biped robot kit, but once it starts moving the differences are startling.
Nakamura, a long time ROBO-ONE champion, founder of Himeji Soft Works, and father of the WR-07 transformer robot that captured attention world-wide and logged over 6.5 million views on YouTube, has definitely given birth to a new star in the world of humanoid robotics.
’Nakamura's JO-ZERO robot sets a new performance standard (Video)’ continues
Gingerbread Robot proves you can cook up robotics in the kitchen (Video)
Believe it or not, the body and wheels on this little robot are made with gingerbread with frosting for glue. Pretty cool. 
Recent Comments