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Tactical Robot.m4v
This is the Mega Hurtz© Tactical Robotic Platform from Inspector Bots. The Mega Hurtz is a rugged 4-Wheel Drive Teleoperated Robotic platform designed for Law Enforcement and Security Applications. The video shows some of the features of the Robot including: Towing a 4700lb Hummer, Breeching a Fortified Concrete Wall, Driving in the desert sand and…
(50X) Autonomously folding a pile of 5 previously-unseen towels
Project was led by UC Berkeley Ph.D. student Jeremy Maitin-Shepard working with Professor Pieter Abbeel. The video is shown at 50X speed. More details can be found in the paper at http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/%7Epabbeel/papers/Maitin-ShepardCusumano-TownerLeiAbbeel_ICRA2010.pdf Duration : 0:2:2
NASA’s First Robotic Astronaut
On November 2, NASA unveiled a prototype of Robonaut 2, the world’s first human-like robotic astronaut, during a pre-launch news briefing at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Science & Technology Writer Edwin Aguirre of UMass Lowell’s Public Affairs Office was there to cover the event. R2, as the robot is fondly called,…
Human Looking Robot – (Actroid-F) 2010
More @ http://hardlynews.org/ Creepy Japanese Expression-Mimicking Robot Hangs Out In Hospitals, “Comforting” Patients AIST opened the doors to their lab for a few days and showed off some of their robotics development with Actroid-F. The operator’s facial expressions and head movements are tracked and replicated by the female robot. Duration : 0:2:39
Superfast Robotic Camera Mimics Human Eye
Researchers led by Professor Heinz Ulbrich at the Institute of Applied Mechanics at the Technical University of Munich are developing superfast camera-orientation systems that can reproduce the movements of the human eye. Read more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/industrial-robots/superfast-robotic-camera-mimics-human-eye Duration : 0:1:13