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Cockroach Inspired Robot Survives 8 Story Fall
DASH, a UC Berkeley-designed, cockroach-inspired robot, manages to take what makes cockroaches so resilient and even retain the cockroach’s singularly creepy movement. This thing is near-indestructible. The 10-cm long DASH, which stands for Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod, weighs only 16 grams, yet is able to run 15 times its body length per second. It has [...]
X Prize Team to Send Swarm of Spiders to the Moon
Team Italia, one of the organizations competing to land a robot on the moon by 2012, is planning to launch a swarm of spiders designed to move fast and collect data through sensors and cameras. Team Italia still has a long way to go to win the Google X Prize – which will award to [...]
Fukitorimushi: A Creepy Cleaning Robot
Panasonic has revealed a strange new cleaning robot at the recent Tokyo Fiber Senseware expo in Milan. The robot is wrapped in Nanofront, a special polyester cloth based on nanofibers, developed by Teijin, Ltd. The cloth can absorb oil and pick up even ultra-fine dust particles. The creepy robots drag themselves around the floor like [...]
Japan sending robots to conquer moon by 2020
Some dreams don’t seem to die, and the country’s Strategic Headquarters for Space Development said recently that they expect a two-legged robot traversing the satellite’s surface by 2020. Should that prove successful, it’ll be followed later by a joint mission with humans – that is, if the robots don’t find a way to take over [...]
