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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I think this is a rescue robot. I think. What confuses me is that it not only looks like a tree grinder, the video is labeled as a “Human Body Shredding Machine” – with a description of “machine can shred a human body”
Uh, really? Right there on the street? How … awesome.
So, without further ado, [...]

In honor of Gregory Clark’s recent article on robots and jobs,  which is something we have also written about here, the Daily Show has put together their top ten clips about robots.
The first clip even has our favorite futurist, Ray Kurzweil (otherwise, that clip is … not the best).
So, without further ado, go check out [...]

This awesome video shows how scientists are using animals as the basis for robot designs. As it is explained in the videos, this helps both scientists and biologists as they learn more about what makes these animals move and how they work.

Perhaps the most bizare item in the video is the robot cockroach that even [...]