Hans Anderson has created a robot using Lego Mindstorm that can solve Sudoku puzzles all on its own. The robot “reads” the paper with the puzzle, figures out the solution, then writes the answer down.
Hans has programmed the robot with a Sudoku-solving algorithm. It will recognize numbers and empty cells, then use this algorithm to [...]

A new robot, ECCEROBOT, is considered the world’s first anthropomimetic robot. The ECCEROBOT, which stands for “Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot”, mimics the internal structure of a person.
It has robotic equivalents of muscles, tendons and even bones. The bones are made from thermoplastic poly-morph, which is a material that can be molded at [...]

This underground parking structure in Japan is able to hold 800 bicycles in a very small space. However, that is only part of what makes it incredible. The cyclist will put their bike in the entrance of the parking garage. A card will then be given to the cyclist. When the cyclist returns, he just [...]

One thing that seems to have been lacking in the world of robotics is the ability for delicate, dexterous and most importantly dynamic hand-like manipulation. Over at the Ishikawa Komuro Laboratory they are working on exactly that with surprising and somewhat freaky results.

This amazing unit can dribble a ball, use tweezers to pick up a [...]

Using robots as a part of surgical procedure is certainly something that is gaining widespread acceptance. After all, a robot can be very precise, the surgeon doesn’t even need to be in the same room (lowering risk of infection) and can operate in small spaces.  You can see a video of a surgeon practicing with [...]

So this isn’t exactly new, but this is one of my all-time favorite Saturday Night Live fake-commercials. I figure, why not post this and combine robots with the hot topic of today: health care.

So now you have to ask yourself – Will Obama’s health care plan protect you from scary robots that are strong because [...]

So let’s say a group of robots needed “food” to survive. Whenever they find food, they not only go to “eat” it, but signal others that food is there.
Of course, this triggers more robots to show up. What if too many robots show up to feed and there isn’t enough food? Would the robots learn [...]

Meet the BumBot. Invented by Rufus Terrill, the BumBot it built to spray the homeless with water if they refuse to “move it along” when asked.
This isn’t a robot that can think for itself, it is controlled with a remote. It also has a bullhorn attached to the top so that a person can scream [...]

This robot can play the rather complex “Flight of the Bumblebee” without error. Not only does this robot have the dexterity to do the proper fingering on the flute, but it has “lips” that allow it to adjust the speed of the air-flow as well as how the air is moved across the flute.

The best [...]

Just to keep things “equal” here, since earlier I did a post on Japanese car company robots, are some videos of robots made by American car companies. First up, General Motors.
General Motors hasn’t created a robot in the same sense of Honda or Toyota. Instead, they created a car that can drive itself. It appears [...]