Filed under Autonomous Nano Quadrotors, cool robots, flying robots, quadrotors, Robots by Alexandru Chiuariu
You know that something is fishy in the US when you see an army of flying robots in attack formations going through the frame of a door.
These quadrotors were developed by KMel Robotics at The University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab, but given the…
Filed under cool robots, gymbot, robot concept, robot design, Robots, workout robot by Alexandru Chiuariu
The personal trainer of the (near) future may as well be a robot, as it is exemplified by Gymbot, a concept that was presented at ICSR 2011 Design Awards.
Massimo Battaglia, the designer of this robot, envisions a future where obesity, a very serious …
Continue Reading "Gymbot: The Robot That Keeps You in Shape"Filed under cool robots, robot design, Robots, search and rescue robot, snake robot by Alexander Nachaj
Researchers have designed an all terrain search and rescue robot that mimics the movements of a snake in order to cross rough terrain.
How would you feel if you were trapped in an inaccessible area and a search and rescue robot that slithered like a s…
Continue Reading "Search and Rescue Robot Moves like a Snake"Filed under cool robots, metal robots, Robots, scrap metal, scrap metal robots by Alexandru Chiuariu
Who says robots must be built only from new, shiny materials? The following gallery includes robots that were made mostly of scrap metal.
One might say that Tal Avitzur, the creator of all of the above robots, started this whole adventure by accident….
Continue Reading "Scrap Metal Abundance? Build Robots Out of It"Filed under cardboard robt, cool robots, diy robot, hexapod robot, Robots by David Delony
If you pay any attention at all, you notice that we like robots and DIY projects. We also love cheap DIY projects, which led us to this cardboard hexapod robot project.Mike Estee has come up with the project, with the materials costing less than $100 U…
Continue Reading "DIY Cardboard Hexapod Robot"Filed under cool robots, Lego, lego machine, lego robot by Alexander Nachaj
A really awesome machine made mostly from LEGO pieces incorporates robot arms and conveyor belts to carry tiny pieces across an epic journey.
According to our source, this entire machine was created by a Youtube member named ctx0075 over the holiday p…
Continue Reading "LEGO Machine Complete With Robot Arms & Conveyor Belts"Filed under cool robots, Geek Culture, gingerbread, gingerbread robot, gingerbread transformer, transformers by David Delony
Christmas has come and gone, but Transformers are forever. Especially ones made out of Gingerbread.
This gingerbread robot in disguise was built by a Canadian student named Brian Hall. He built the device out of an Arduino board and six servo motors, i…
Filed under autom, cool robots, diet plan, diet robot, Robots by David Delony
Over the holiday season, many of us will eat more of those filling treats than is good for us. But a robot called Autom might help people watching their calories to eat healthy foods.
Autom works differently from other Web and phone-based diet applicat…
Filed under cool robots, gundam, gundam robot, Robots, timelapse video by David Delony
Suppose you want to move a giant replica of Gundam from an artificial island to Tokyo? Very carefully, of course. A series of time-lapse video has documented the process.The giant model of the robot originally resided on the artificial island of Odaiba…
Continue Reading "Timelaps Video of Gundam Robot Assembly"Filed under Arts and Crafts, cool robots, pcb, robot sculpture, ronix by Federico Lo Giudice
The future might look bleak, with empty chasms and dark alleys, but that doesn’t mean no one’s fit for survival. Here’s RONIX, the Data Hunter.
Created entirely out of computer parts, Ronix is the work of PCB Creations , and can be f…
Continue Reading "RONIX: Post-Apocalyptic Robot Sculpture Made Of PCB"Filed under ball robot, cool robots, dancing robot, morphing robot, Robots by Alexandru Chiuariu
Multi-legged robots are not something new, but a spherical robot that turns its lower half into six legs certainly has a degree of innovation.
The combination between the spherical body and the six legs make the MorpHex robot, as its creator called it,…
Filed under christmas, christmas robot, cool robots, Geek Culture, nativity scene, robot nativity by David Delony
If you love Christmas and you’re a geek, you’ll probably love this geeky robot nativity scene.
Of course, with all of the hustle and bustle of the Christmas scene, which has shoppers competing with each other to clear store shelves and occa…
Filed under automato57, cool robots, ketchup applicator, ketchup dispenser, ketchup robot, Robots by David Delony
We love robots here at Walyou. They build our cars, vacuum our floors, and finally, one robot does another job that no human wants to do: put ketchup on their food.
The Automato57 is mounted on treads and moves around the table, dispensing ketchup on y…
Filed under cool robots, qbo, qbo robot, Robots, self-aware robot by David Delony
Qbo, an open source robot, is able to recognize itself in a mirror, an incredible breakthrough for robotics and artificial intelligence.
Qbo is a rather cute-looking robot with wheels and stereoscopic vision developed by TheCorpora robotics company. Qb…
Filed under climbing robot, cool robots, japanese robot, Robots by Alexander Nachaj
A Japanese company has just designed a robot that makes climbing ladders look like child’s play. It might not be as smooth or realistic as humans, but it’s still pretty cool.
According to our source, the robot was design by the Osaka-based…
Continue Reading "Japanese Ladder Climbing Robot"Filed under chembot, cool robots, darpa, darpa chembot, robo-blob, Robots by Alexander Nachaj
Last year Darpa unveiled a robo-blob that was able to roll, now using the same technology they have a chembot who is able to walk.
According to our source, this creepy little robot that looks kind of like a head-crap from Half-Life is the latest in th…
Continue Reading "Darpa Chembot is Walking Version of Robo-Blob"Filed under architecture project, cool robots, flying robot, flying robots, Robots by Alexander Nachaj
A team of tiny flying robots, using coordinates programmed by several architects, was recently able to build a 6 meter high tower.
According to our source, the project was conceived through the collaboration of a team of roboticists and architects at …
Continue Reading "Team of Flying Robots Build a 6 Meter High Tower"Filed under bigdog, cool robots, petman, robot dance, Robots, stayin alive by David Delony
Disco may be dead, but robots live forever. A couple of robots are shown strutting along to the Bee Gees’ classic “Stayin’ Alive,” as immortalized by John Travolta’s own famous intro to the late-’70s cultural totem, …
Continue Reading "Robots Dancing to “Stayin’ Alive”"Filed under cool robots, dancing robot, my keepon, Robots, tiny robot by Alexander Nachaj
Meet My Keepon, a tiny yellow robot that dances to the beat of whichever song you have playing. Guaranteed to be a hit this holiday season.
According to our source, these cute, and ridiculous, looking robots were recently designed by a British firm in…
Continue Reading "My Keepon: The Little Yellow Robot that Dances to the Beat"Filed under cool robots, Robots, snake robot, titanoba, titanoboa robot by Alexander Nachaj
No, it’s not another Anaconda movie: it’s Titanoboa, a monstrous 35-foot robot designed to mimic the movements and appearances of a real snake.
The gigantic robot, weighing in at over 1700 pounds, is currently a prototype of a much larger…
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