Dancing robots DIY Bioloid

If you have a sufficient knowledge of C-style programming, love tinkering around with gyros, IR ports, sensors and have a love for robots, then the Bioloid is the robo-buddy you're looking for. It dances, it can sort of flip backwards and knows how to do robo-tuts. We doubt your Robosapien can do any of those.



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RoBoCar - self driving car

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Talking baby's head

Facial motion test of Affetto, which is an child robot that is currently under development in emergent robotics laboratory at Osaka university for simulating infant cognitive development. Its face is created realistically so as to be treated as a human being by human caregivers, not as a robot.


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Robot CHARLI

The autonomous robot soccer team from Virginia Tech for the RoboCup 2011 Humanoid League, Adult Size class.

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Japanese robot uses the objects around

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DARwIn-OP - humanoid robot with open source

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Cursorial robot Athlete

Sprint running of a musculoskeletal Athlete Robot: Biomechanical approach.

- Bio-inspired Design ― Artificial musculoskeletal system with elastic blade foot
- Motor command generated from binarized human EMG and optimization through simulation
- Running five steps with open-loop muscle activation patterns


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The robot has learned to write a message from Twitter

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Land Crawler eXtreme - 12-legged robot transporter

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Kids Walker Robot

This would make one heck of a Halloween Costume. Imagine your kid getting a hold of this. Its from the Sakakibara-kikai corp of Japan. Check out our blog for some additional photos.

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Robot Murata Girl taught new tricks (2 videos)

Even robots can fall in love. Gyro-sensors allow Murata's robots to stay steady on a 2cm wide balance beam (despite their obvious attraction to one another).

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HRP-4 - robot balancing on one leg (video)

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Willow Garage PR2

Your own PR2 personal bot--for just $400,000
"With PR2 now commercially available, we can't wait to see what our new users will develop on our platform," said Willow Garage, which suggests the robot can be used to do repetitive tasks at work or home and aid those who might otherwise need to live in an assisted-living facility. The availability of more than 1,000 software libraries appears to ensure a promising future for the young robot.

The approximately 5-foot-tall, wheeled, two-armed bot features two computers inside its base, each an 8-core server with 24GB of RAM, and a battery system that's tantamount to 16 laptop batteries.

Its head sports two pairs of stereo cameras, one for wide angles and the other for focusing. The eyes are designed to work like a person's in that they take two pictures of a room and try to find common points on which to triangulate. The PR2 also has a tilting laser scanner that helps it create 3D models so it can avoid bumping into walls while it shuffles about tending to your every need.

If $400,000 sounds too steep for you, Willow Robot is offering a $120,000 discount to individuals "who have made significant contributions to the open-source community."

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PR2 Robot Fetches Beer from the Refrigerator

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Robocup Soccer 2010 Germany / Germany (Final)

Accelerated Version (5 cameras)

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Humanoid robot ROPID

Humanoid robot ROPID can jump 1/4 of its total body height!

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PETMAN Prototype

Biped robot that balances dynamically using a human-like walking motion. It is a close relative to BigDog, sharing elements of the mechanical design and control.
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Coffee Making Robot [Video]

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G8 Robotic Fish

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Bionic Hamster - Video

How well can a hamster vacuum a room? The Create offered a great platform for implementing this silly idea. The hamster controls the robot by running in the ball in whatever direction he/she likes. The ball is supported on three rollers and an optical sensor measures which way and how fast the ball is spinning. Those values are fed into a microprocessor that controls the drive wheels to make the robot mimic the motion of the ball.

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