This Week In Bots: Telepresence Is Coming Home
Bot Vid: Robot Ray University of Virginia scientists have made a robotic clone of a cow-nosed ray, using biomimicry techniques to copy the ray’s firm body, flexible silicone wings that have rod and cable-assemblies inside so they can contract and bend much like a real ray’s wing can when it swims with its unique motions. As the Automaton blog points out , this isn’t simply for fun: A robotic ray vehicle has great potential for environmental monitoring and maybe even surveillance implications. [youtube n66N7Xkxazc] Bot Vid: Nao’s Spiral Staircase Skills Walking up stairs is already a tricky maneuver for robots–just ask Asimo –but researchers at the University of Freiburg have augmented a little Nao experimental bot so its stereo camera vision system teams with a Hokuyo 2D laser scanner that gives it an accurate scan of the environment around it
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This Week In Bots: Telepresence Is Coming Home
