Megadgets

When it comes to hunting down humans running speeds, MIT’s cheetah might come second to Boston Dynamics’ own high-velocity quadruped.

Bartendro is a modular and open-source cocktail dispensing robot!

A robot suit that can help the elderly or disabled get around was given its global safety certificate in Japan on Wednesday, paving the way for its worldwide rollout.

  It’s amazing how some of the more complex problems can be overcome with a little ingenuity and out of the box thinking. By using two of the most common household items namely coffee grounds and a balloon, one can create an extremely versatile gripper attatchement that enables robotic arms to grasp and even throw [...]

Underwater exploration for the common man just got easier and less expensive with OpenROV. An open-source remotely operated underwater vehicle that you can build at home. The days of plopping down a couple of hundred thousand dollars on ROVs for your expeditions are over. The OpenROV project is a robotics community that is committed to helping the Do-It-yourself [...]

Looks like the future is getting closer. With these little robotic critters, buildings will go up faster with fewer defects. I  still think it’ll be a long way off before plumbing and electrical work can be performed by robotics. A group of scientists has demonstrated that a coordinated group of pre-programmed, autonomous robots can do [...]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-57327023-52/ocean-faring-robots-set-sail-on-guinness-record-attempt/ Over at CNET.com this story captured my imagination. Lots of technology, time and effort went into this and I’d love to share this to you as well. Enjoy. SAN FRANCISCO–Four robots left the Golden Gate today on an across the globe mission to set a world distance record and demonstrate new data-gathering tools that [...]