Air Muscles
These are cool because they’re fast, strong and quiet. Not sure how small they can be though – and I think that creating the compressed air in the first place might be a bit of a bastard. Instructables...
View ArticleMissing Links
In some ways things are easy to predict… we’re just waiting for pieces of the jigsaw to turn up. Robot muscles for example. I’m pretty sure that servos aren’t the way to go, although they’re dominating...
View ArticleAmazing Flying / Swimming Penguinbots
Ok. Even though in the last post I said I was trying to avoid constantly going on about robots, I’m going to go on about them again, because these ones are simply too amazing, and touch upon a number...
View ArticleMissing Links Waiting to happen : Robo-Bats
(from) I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn’t believe anything… but until I’ve seen a video of this thing flying…...
View ArticleThe Thinking Man’s Einstein
A robot using what looks suspiciously like Genetic Algorithms to learn how to make facial expressions. Might not be of course – but Genetic Algorithms are so simple and produce good results blindingly...
View ArticleThe Touchy Feely Wearable Panopticon
Dogcam. It’s supposed to be a petcam, but I can’t imagine it not turning a cat into a struggling furry ball of hooks and spitting-fire. Dogs are more malleable. Ductile etc. Maybe it would work for...
View ArticleSoft Stroke Sensors and Wanking Eggs
Firstly, DIY touch-sensitive fabric: From Craftzine – lots of conducting wires sewn close together that behave in different ways according to how they’re touched. One of the ways that living organisms...
View ArticleAnthropomimetic Machines
New word : things that mimic humans : Anthropomimetic This is neat – in a slightly spooky sort of way. (from) A different take on robot muscles… which I still think are a bit of a missing link, and...
View ArticleMore on Robotic Muscles
Someone sent me this earlier (cool, I love being sent stuff) Which is possibly the weirdest robo-thing I’ve seen… like, ever. Pity it’s pneumatic… because pneumatics need compressors, and compressors...
View ArticleFishy-Wishy Watch-Bots
Sorry. Once I’d thought of that title I couldn’t not use it, even though it’s crap… but go on, say it out loud. I dare you. You know I’m right. I’m talking about this: Which is a pollution-monitoring...
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