Robot News

Best Catching Robot

Catching Robot

• Catches balls with accuracy of 80%• This is a pretty high eye/hand coordination– Difficult to teach to even a human child– Better than average uncoordinated human

• Can catch two balls at once• Uses 3d cameras• Has 43 joints. 5 in torso, f in each arm, 12 in

each hand.

A Runway Robot?

First Robot Teacher

Balancing Highly Articulated Robot

Japanese Singing Robot

Amphibious Snake Robot

Flying Robot to Fukushima Reactor

Kinect + iRobot + Gripper Kit

Taurus, bomb defusing robot

iRobot Navy Contract

• iRobot doesn’t only make vacuums and gutter cleaners

• $230 million contract with US Navy– Reconnaissance robots– Bomb disposal robots

• iRobot is also big in cooperating swarms of robots• Builds seaglider and other marine robots to

gather oceanic data• Builders of the Packbot

Biometric Flying Robots

• Robot seagull– Extremely realistic looking flight• Wings move in sections and take advantage of air

currents• Draws some its power from air currents.