Autonomous solutions has developed this robot to serve as a multi-functional aid to humans in dangerous situations. It has a wide range of potential applications, such as search and rescue or explosive ordinance disposal. The reason this particular device caught my attention is that the company that makes it was discussing how it has broken…

Designed in 3 months and built in 6 with a $15,000 budget, this fantastic piece of biomimicry and robotic engineering is simply awesome. The homepage provides specs, a datasheet, and schematics for the power pack. I’m sure we won’t be doing anything near this massive, complicated, or expensive in this class, but it’s good to…

People always see their own views without thinking about other people’s viewpoints, so Hachiya Kazuhiko creates the “Inter Dis-communication Machines” which are a pair of equipments compelling two people to exchange both of their visions to each other. Each person wears a monitor which has two little screens and vedio cameras relying on eletromagnetic wave…

Artifacial by Arthur Elsenaar is a project that uses electricity to manipulate facial expressions. The face is controlled not by the brain, but by computers which deliver small, precise electrical currents that can make the face contort in unexpected ways. While the concept of controlling muscle contractions with electricity is not new, Artifacial uses this…

Honda boasts their robot Asimo as “The World’s Most Advanced Humanoid Robot”. It is able to move about and perform tasks like a human. It was originally designed to assist people in everyday tasks, and is able to and navigate spaces, sidewalks, and stairs. It is also able to walk, run, dance, lift, reach, and…

Jun Aoki is an architect who wanted to show a heigthed sense of speed. He used 10,000 transparent, polycarbonate pipes to create the feeling that your were up in the clouds with the cars flying by you. I found this to be a remarable thing to try and acconplish. To get the feeling that you’re…

In Germany, the Tübingen and Regensburg universities there is a hospital carring out a study to help the blind. Eberhart Zrenner is the leader of this project. The project involves implanting chips into the eyes of seven people who have lost their sight to a disease called retinitis pigmentosa. Silicon chips to allow machines to…

The Psymbiote Project is a project who’s goal is to in a way transform the human body into more of a hybrid human. This type of art is most interesting because the artist becomes somewhat of a cyborg, and that is what this project is fully trying to accomplish. This body when complete will have…

The hamster ball: not only safest mode of travel for your pet, but also an interestingly simple vehicle that is easily operated by an animal. But what happens when one takes that basic idea and changes the parameters a little? . Why, you end up with something absurd, like an EEE-PC piloted hamster ball, or…

This symbiote, developed by the University of Florida scientists is a computer implant that can think, learn, interpret, and make decisions on its own in order to work with the host to accomplish a common goal most economically. The implant works through tiny electrodes which capture thought signals , and very involved algorithms which interpret…