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Smart Pebble Robots Duplicate Object
MIT researchers present a digital fabrication technique for manufacturing active objects in 2D from a collection of small robots. Part of the paper, “A Distributed Algorithm for 2D Shape Duplication With Smart Pebble Robots,” by K. Gilpin and D. Rus, presented at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-hardware/smart-pebble-robots-duplicate-objects Duration…
June 18, 2012
Movement synchronization of a group of Nao’s
At the beginning all the robots are waiting for my signal to start. While dancing, they are constantly synchronizing with each other, so if a robot lags behind they will wait for him and the late robot will accelerate. When I remove a robot from the choreography, the others continue dancing. When he stands up…
June 17, 2012
Multigait_Robot.wmv
Video of a multigait soft robot undulating under a glass obstacle. See our PNAS paper – “Multi-Gait Soft Robot”, Shepherd, R.F., Ilievski.F., Choi.W., Morin.S.A., Stokes.A.A., Mazzeo.A.D., Chen.X., Wang.M., and Whitesides.G.M., PNAS, 2011 Duration : 0:1:25
June 16, 2012
Robotic grippers based on granular jamming
This video is a high level introduction to our jamming-based robot grippers for a general audience. Cornell Creative Machines Lab: http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/ Duration : 0:2:37
June 15, 2012
World’s Top3 Humanoid Robots – Asimo vs HPR-4 vs NAO!
Robots have been one of the most fantasized electronic gadgets from a long long time. Now it’s time to unveil the top 3 humanoid robots in the world today. 1: Honda ASIMO Astronaut look alike Robot ASIMO by Honda probably is the most famous Humanoid robot till now.It is the first ever robot to walk,move…
June 14, 2012