Waalbot wall climbing robot
Here’s an episode of EngineeringTV featuring a gecko-inspired wall-walker being developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Waalbot Wall Climbing Robot
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Maze-solving robot
Bens shares video of his Atmega168-based bot mapping and solving a line maze – This was my first attempt at making a maze solver and I wrote the code from scratch the night before our last local robotics competition, so there’s plenty of room for improvment (for example, it would be cool if it could […]
Giant spider bot walker
Via Suicide Bots comes this amazing mechanical walker with this caption: Giant mechanical spiders take away some of the hurt in the world. Yes. Yes they do. MoltenSteelMan: Walking Beast [via]
Robofish will go where we can’t
Kristi Morgansen of the University of Washington, has been working on developing underwater robots that are maneuverable, not disruptive to the environment, and can work as a team to collect data in 3 D’s situations – that is, jobs that are dirty, dull, and dangerous. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or […]
Jumping bot
Nifty jumping bot created at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Jumping can be a very efficient mode of locomotion for small robots to overcome large obstacles and travel in natural, rough terrain. We present the development and characterization of a novel 5cm, 7g jumping robot. It can jump obstacles as high as more […]
HOW TO – Build your own Wall-E robot
This detailed Instructable shows you how to build your own Wall-E robot, star of the forthcoming Disney/Pixar film of the same name. Wall-E Robot [via]
Wrex the Dawg robot
RobotsRule has a written and video review of WowWee’s forthcoming Wrex the Dawg, a sort of comic-relief robot that, as Robert puts it “is absolutely terrible at being a dog and even worse at being a robot.” WowWee Wrex The Dawg Review