Oct 11
Remember that iStruct robotic ape
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Aug 19
Not content on landing several rovers on the surface of Mars, NASA’s JPL team’s been working on more earthly projects. RoboSimian is an ape-like robot designed for search-and-rescue missions that’s expected to compete in the DARPA Robotics Challenge. It features four multi-jointed limbs with unique hands and no defined front or back — allowing it to always face the right way. Thanks to its primate-like movement and posture, the robot will be able to navigate over difficult terrain, climb ladders and even drive vehicles (one of the DRC’s requirements). While the project itself isn’t new, JPL recently published an interesting video that shows RoboSimian gripping tools, lifting its own weight and balancing delicate objects. This means, of course, that robot monkeys will soon join spiders, cats and dogs in your dystopian nightmares. Video after the break.
Filed under: Robots
Source: JPL
Aug 15
There’s a reason the animals that spend their days leaping from tree to tree have developed long prehensile tails. It not only gives them an extra limb for clinging to branches, it also helps them steer and adjust their center of gravity as they sail through the air. So it makes sense that if you were developing a robot with superhuman like leaping abilities, you’d make sure it had a tail too.
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Jun 24
If you thought the prospect of being chased down by one of DARPA’s terminator-wannabes
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Mar 04
The First Wireless, Implantable Brain-Computer Interface Will Help Us Move Things With Our Minds On the Go
Posted in: Today's Chili
Researchers at Brown University have made the first wireless, implantable, rechargeable brain-computer interface. Humans might be next in line for testing of the device, after 13 months of successful trials in monkeys and pigs. More »
Jan 28
Iran Just Sent a Monkey Into Space
Posted in: Today's Chili
Sky News is reporting that Iran just took a major step towards its goal of achieving manned space flight—by firing a monkey into space. More »
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