Those cute little Landroids (disposable robots that work together to form a mobile local area network for soldiers) that iRobot is developing for DARPA have been evolving, and now sport all kinds of new hardware, including:
-Cliff sensors
-Front obstacle sensors
-Yaw sensors
-Four video cameras
-Two way audio
-And an optional laser scanner
Check out the video here.
That seems like a [...]
The robotics journal Autonomous Robots has its own blog, which is intended to take the hardcore robot news from the journal and make it a bit more reader friendly. They also link back to the journal articles, should you need a little of that hardcore techy info. Yeah baby. Anyway, looking back through some of [...]
Robot plants are not new to BotJunkie, but creepy ones are. Not that this robot plant is intended to be creepy, but like everything in the Uncanny Valley, it just sort of ends up that way. Or maybe it’s just me.
Each of the plant’s 169 artificial leaves is controlled by a piece of shape memory [...]
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