The Boeing 777 is a huge, hulking beast. And when you’re trying to churn out 100 of them every year, there’s only one way to pull it off: turn to the robots. These giant, spray-painting robot arms can coat one of the bird’s mammoth wings in mere minutes.
     |
Remember the Cocorobo robotic vaccum that could send you pics of your newly-cleaned carpet? Sharp is going to be doing a lot more of that kind of thing soon, if a recent demo at its research center in Nara, Japan is any indication. Since the company has been losing gobs of money on its tepid LCD-panel business, it’ll soon be using some of that tech in completely different industries: for instance, converting powerful LED lighting from TV backlights to grow lamps, and touchscreen TV panels to interactive whiteboards. Sharp admitted to PC World that it needed to branch into other businesses since “rivals have been able to catch up from behind” to its LCD TV and mobile phone businesses — and judging by the drastic actions the company’s taken to stave off disaster lately, it’ll need to hustle those products to market, stat. Check the video after the jump to see some of the prototypes in action.
[Image credit: PC World]
Filed under: Displays, Robots, HD
Source: PC World
When you combine Google Fiber, a robot and a boy 1,800 miles away from a baseball game, you already know it’s going to be a good story. But this is better than just good. Google Fiber helped a boy with a rare blood disorder throw out the first pitch at a baseball game that was 1,800 miles away.
| |
It doesn’t matter how many hours you wiled away at college in the rec room, this air hockey-playing robot, developed by researchers at Chiba University’s Namiki Lab, will beat you. And not only will it never lose, the robot has also been taught how to string along its human opponent so they think they have a chance at winning, when in reality they don’t.
| |
Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming Pacific Rim is the robot versus monsters mashup we’ve all been waiting for. But the origins of the giant mechas hasn’t been explained until now, which are obviously influenced heavily by anime.
| |
Move over, Parrot AR.Drone; there’s a new (prototype) quadrocopter in town. For their senior project, electrical engineering students at Northeastern University developed TRAQ, an autonomous aircraft that tracks down the sources of radio transmissions. That functionality comes thanks to a four-element antenna array, and the team envisions such a device being used in disaster, rescue and surveillance situations, where drones could prove faster to respond than us earthbound humans. The next step would be getting multiple aircraft to work together to improve location accuracy. Who doesn’t love an imposing swarm of quadrocopters, after all?
Filed under: Robots
Source: Northeastern
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
