Category: Robotics
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A Researcher Spends Time As A Goat In A Herd And The Reason Would Certainly Disturb You
Thomas Thwaites 34, is a researcher from London who wanted to live a simple life. As a part of his efforts he lived for three days pretending to be a goat in a herd of goats in the Swiss Alpes. He used bizarre looking prosthetics to act like a “goat”. At one point, it even…
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Aerius: Axis Designs World’s Tiniest Quadcopter Size Of A Quarter
With the advancement in technology, quadcopter drones are getting more sophisticated with increase in size, durability, speed and reliability. While the market leader like parrot and DJI are competing to make bigger and faster drones there are some companies that are going in the opposite direction and making even smaller drones. Axis drone is one…
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A Fantastic Show Of Light As LED Fitted Car and Drones Dance While Circling (Video)
A really awe-inspiring video that shows us what happens when many quadcopters as well as a car, are fitted with lights and then made to move and dance around in circles. While at the same time a long exposure camera is filming them. It can be deemed as if we are painting light whereas the…
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This Revolutionary Robotic Glove Teaches Anyone To Draw
This new type robotic glove named as the “Teacher” is there to teach you how to make drawings by improving your drawing skills. It can be worn on your hand and it forces your hand to perform the movements that are necessary to perform a good drawing. After some training sessions your hand would develop…
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This Revolutionary Exoskeleton Turns Factory Workers Into SUPERHEROES
Named as the Robo-Mate, using this technology a worker can lift ten times heavier loads thanks to an exoskeleton that provides metallic support to back, legs and arms. According to the experts this approach is more safe as now workers can perform manual jobs such as dismantling the car in a more safe manner. …
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AguaDrone: An Innovative Sensor-Studded Drone To Find Fishes
As the evidence suggests, the history of fishing is as old as the history of mankind. With passage of time the fishing tools have become more and more sophisticated, as well as, fishing techniques. Today the modern gadgets used for fishing include boats equipped with Sonars, fishing rods and elastic but strong fishing lines. However,…
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Air Shepherd: Drones To Fight Against Elephant Poaching
In Africa 100,000 elephants were killed between 2010 and 2012. At this rate, poaching may threaten the very existence of the species within next 10 years. Fighting against this illegal activity is not easy, but the use of drones will possibly change that. Here is a video presentation of the project Air Shepherd. In recent…
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Toshiba’s Revolutionary Scorpion Robot To Explore The Fukushima Reactor
Increasingly, Robots are being envisaged as solution to reach places which are otherwise inaccessible to the human beings due to safety reasons or lack of accessibility. Fukushima nuclear plant is one such place where the high level of nuclear radiations are deemed lethal for the human beings. In April, Hitachi used a robot snake to examine the reactor Number…
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21 Most Beautiful Places Photographed By Drones Where Overflight Is Illegal Today
Amos Chapple is a KIWI photographer and a drone enthusiast. These 21 aerial photographs immortalized by a drone, are the result of 2 years of traveling around the globe by her. These sublime photographs were legally taken before the drones flight over some of these zones became illegal. So, the view of the sky is…
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Drones Stop Chinese Students From Cheating Using 007 Style Gadgets
In the previous, Chinese authorities had discovered students using high-tech gadgets for cheating in university entrance exam “Gaoko”. They used wireless gadgets to get answers from their helpers outside. As a response, this year drones have been used to counter cheating. Equipped with wireless sensors they monitor radio signals above the exam hall for the…
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Redditometro- A Robot To Hunt Down Tax Evaders In Italy
If you had thought that tax evasion is easy in Italy, perhaps you are wrong. Redditometro is a robot that is the worst nightmare of the Italian Italian fraudsters. It has raised a lot of criticism and tensions in Italy. It was introduced in 2010 and updated today. Redditometro (indicator of wealth) is a robot-computer that…
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A Drone That Self-stabilizes Like A Tightrope Walker
A team of researchers at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, has developed a technology that allows a flying drone to restore its position in any situation and land in case of emergency, just like a tightrope walker. An innovation that could help make future UAVs more secure by preventing them from causing accidents in case…
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People With Reduced Mobility Can Use This Revolutionary Exoskeleton To Walk
A team of scientists has developed a lightweight exoskeleton that allows people with reduced mobility to walk with less effort. Manufactured with carbon fiber, it weighs about 500 grams for each leg (the same weight as a conventional shoe). We invite you to discover this ingenious creation. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina University…
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Incredible: Drones To Plant 1 Billion Trees A Year
Lauren Fletcher, an engineer at NASA, wants to fight against deforestation by developing drones for large-scale reforestation. This approach can plant a billion trees every year. We tell you more about this project by the environmental specialist. After 20 years as an engineer at drones! “We will fight against deforestation at industrial scale by a large-scale industrial plantations”, he…
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Insect cyborg: A Beetle Can Now Be Turned Into A Drone
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley (USA) and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have been able to remotely control a real beetle using a muscle stimulation mechanism. The idea of developing cyborg insects is not new but the purpose of these projects raises ethical questions. In 2009, a team of researchers at the…