Category: news

  • Robot Aircraft Carrier Drone on FutureWeapons (Part 2 of 2)

    This is a clip (part 2 of 2) from FutureWeapons documenting the Northrop Grumman X-47B UCAS (Unmanned Combat Air System). Recent advances in robotics, sensors and artificial intelligence are used to engineer a drone aircraft that can perform naval missions and land on aircraft carriers autonomously. To develop this system, virtual prototyping and simulations are…

  • Robot Aircraft Carrier Drone on FutureWeapons (Part 1 of 2)

    This is a clip (part 1 of 2) from FutureWeapons documenting the Northrop Grumman X-47B UCAS (Unmanned Combat Air System). Recent advances in robotics, sensors and artificial intelligence are used to engineer a drone aircraft that can perform naval missions and land on aircraft carriers autonomously. To develop this system, virtual prototyping and simulations are…

  • Unboxing the Litter Robot

    If you are sick of manually cleaning your cat’s litter box, then you might want to take a look at the litter robot, unboxed here for your viewing pleasure. 🙂 http://www.litter-robot.com/ Duration : 0:2:14

  • Twendy One – robot carer unveiled in Japan

    Jan 12 – A prototype robot that could help provide care for the elderly has been demonstrated in Japan. Called ‘Twendy-one’, the robot was developed by Waseda University in Tokyo. The robot can help people in need of istance by, for example, helping them to get out of bed. The robot’s advanced manual dexterity means…

  • Lecture 6 | Introduction to Robotics

    Lecture by Professor Oussama Khatib for Introduction to Robotics (CS223A) in the Stanford Computer Science Department. Professor Khatib shows a short video on Locomotion Gates with Polypod, then lectures on Instantaneous Kinematics and the Jacobian Matrixes. CS223A is an introduction to robotics which covers topics such as Spatial Descriptions, Forward Kinematics, Inverse Kinematics, Jacobians, Dynamics,…