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Crawling and Jumping Soft Robots
Read more at http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/se/~hirai/research/softrobot-e.html and http://www.botjunkie.com/ Duration : 0:2:27
The Humans Are Dead – Full version
Both parts of “Robots,” a song featured in the pilot episode of Flight of the Conchords. It’s also the ninth track on their self-titled full length that was released in April. Duration : 0:1:54
Tiny hovering robot
Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17608 The smallest ever free-flying aircraft to hover with flapping wings gets off the ground Duration : 0:0:40
A walking robot using programmable springs
This is a simple demonstration of how programmable spring actuators can be used to create a set of robot legs with in-built stepping reflexes. The robot ‘walks’ when it is pulled along on its leash. All the behaviour is embedded in the actuators. When a leg is perturbed beyond a limit, the shoulder actuator sends…