Saffir will be equipped with multiple sensory devices, including video cameras, gas sensors, and stereo infrared cameras that will allow it to see through smoke. Upper body robot will be able to operate the fire suppression equipment and fire-throwing propelled agent technology (PEAT) grenade. Lower body will be able to walk in any direction, move obstacles, and maintain a balance in the ocean pitching, thanks to the six-axis force / torque sensors in the feet.
Weight will be minimized and distributed by the central aluminum structure, along with titanium springs at the joints. The battery should allow about 30 minutes of action for the fire department.2. robot fish
Several years ago, a team of scientists from the University of Leeds secured stickleback fish live under the control computer " Robofish "as it moved through their aquarium. Part of the reason for the experiment was to learn about fish behavior, in the hope that human interference in their migration routes can be minimized. While Robofish was only plaster models, researchers from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University recently performed a similar experiment, but using fish tail flapping actual robot. Their findings could help save wild fish populations in the event of an environmental disaster.
3. Eksoskleton 2
widespread use of total exoskeletal robotics to augment human beings moved a step closer this week when Raytheon demonstrated the second generation Exoskeleton, the XOS 2. The suit new robot (think of it as a wearable robot guided by the human brain) is lighter, faster and stronger than the original proof-of-concept XOS 1, yet uses half the power. While Raytheon is mainly focused on the development of military usage, exoskeletons for the mobility-impaired already in the market and industrial exoskeletons from Japan, Korea and Israel are not far behind. One day in the not too long, one of the suit will allow us all to have superhuman strength, speed and endurance.
4. Micobot bee
Inspired by origami and pop-up children's books, Harvard engineers have pioneered mass-producing appliance-sized bees flying microrobots. This breakthrough mechanizes already state-of-the art of making a robot Mobee Harvard by hand, with the mass production assembly by flat sheets that can be folded and assembled in the movement. The technique, crafty use of existing machinery for making printed circuit boards, can theoretically be applied to many electromechanical machines.
5. robot lizards jump
For some time now, scientists have assumed that dinosaurs were not quite pull the tail of the group behind them, but were instead handed to serve as a counterweight to the giant reptile heavy front end when running. More recently, however, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, has found that modern-day lizards also use their tails to control the orientation of their bodies when jumping in the air. It is a discovery that can be applied to devices such as search and rescue robots, and in fact already have. Based on their observations, the UC Berkeley team created a small robot known as Tailbot tail.
5. robot guard cat
The system is seen Veltrop Nao robot navigation control and bend and twist through the Kinect sensor and a treadmill and arm that uses Kinect and two Wiimotes. Meanwhile, the head-mounted display (HMD) provides a view of the eye Veltrop Nao and a second camera mounted on his head. The robot is controlled via Wi-Fi and skilled enough to allow Veltrop to brush a cat, a comfortable held in place by an assistant to help.
6. Geminoid F
Visitors to Tokyo Shinjuku neighborhood I find themselves metaphorically transported to the valley is amazing, if they walk through the department store Takashimaya, ie. Until Valentine's Day, there are prominent display window will play the glass prison cell with an impressive and terrifying android Geminoid-F. Geminoid-F was striking lifelike in appearance, yet so thoroughly inhuman in many ways (head and eye movements among them), that it can only be the work of a master, unbelievable Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro.
7. robot fly
We were quite impressed with the potential of these flying robotswhen we first covered it in late November. Now frac Centre in Orléans, France has released a video of a swarm of robots in action during the current exhibition. Titled "Flight Assembled Architecture," featuring direct installation fleet quadrocopters build a six meter high tower module consists of 1,500 prefabricated polystyrene foam.
8. New 710 Warrior robot
iRobot, the company behind the housekeeper, like Roomba and Scooba, and military and police robots, such as Packbot and negotiator, has released an updated version of the 700 Soldiers robot. Like its predecessor, the newly launched Warrior 710 is designed for EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal), reconnaissance and surveillance missions and can lift loads up to 220 lbs (100 kg) and carrying more than 150 pounds (68 kg) over rugged terrain.
9. robot maker seketsa
Pity the poor industrial robots. It spent many hours working hard manual labor went on without thinking, never get a chance to explore the creative side. Well, next month at the CeBIT trade show digital technology, the robots will get the chance. When a visitor views the Fraunhofer sitting on the bench is provided, one industrial robot companies will create a pencil sketch of them, then hold up the finished product for everyone to see.
10. R2
History is full of famous handshake symbolizes a permanent change in the status quo. 1945 Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin three handshake. In 1961 Kennedy-Khrushchev handshake. In 1972, Nixon-Mao handshake. In 1993 Rabin-Arafat handshake. In 2012, Burbank-R2 handshake? This historic grip held on February 15, 2012, when NASA's Robonaut 2 (nicknamed R2) humanoid robot greeted Commander Dan Burbank board the International Space Station (ISS) on the first handshake "human-machine" in space.
