Robot video - evolving technology of robotics on display

Robot balancing on a ball

roboticvids — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:08:46 +0000

This gyroscopic robot will probably put your balancing to shame.
Standing on a ball with a large brick on top, it manages to keep positioned on the ball even when pushed around.
The robot could help a human out when moving around a large object, and it can be combined with several robots carrying the same object.
What we are missing in the video is to have the guy standing on top of it

Filed under: Gyroscopic Tagged: balancing, ball

Robot playing the violin – Toyota

roboticvids — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:31:55 +0000

This is a video of a musically-inclined Partner Robot that can play violin. Behind is Toyota the auto giant.
17 joints in its arms controlled by computer and very agile fingers allow the robot to both hold the violin and correctly psuh down the strings against the fingerboard, while gently drawing the bow across the strings. In this clip you will see it at a Toyota showroom in Tokyo. The robot is the 152-centimeter (5-ft) tall and it entertained with “Pomp and Circumstance.”

Toyota has an ensemble of musical androids like this, which can also play trumpet, tuba, trombone, French horn and percussion.

Posted in Humanoid Tagged: robot, toyota, violin

Funny robot dance video

roboticvids — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:20:30 +0000

This is just for entertaining, and the robots aren’t the most sophisticated. Actually they are toy robots. But in this video the cute robots dancing are just adorable. Even if though they’re wearing hawaiian shirts

Posted in Entertainment Tagged: dancing, toys

Robot with skin-like tissue – soft body robotics

roboticvids — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:15:18 +0000

Have a look at this amazing video from iRobot which is yet another glimpse into the future of robots.

It shows how a robot consisting of purely soft tissue can change its appearance and actually move around on a surface.

If nothing else, the future of the adult industry looks bright…

Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: irobot, robotics

A robot playing Rock Band on the iPhone

roboticvids — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:07:22 +0000

This amusing little robot is able to play the popular iPhone application Rock Band. Using light sensor and advanced robot fingers, it is able to play the game at the highest level of difficulty.

Some guy named Joe Bowers took the challenge up and built one for him self.

Check the robot blog by Joe

Posted in Uncategorized

Long video on robots in war (16:09)

roboticvids — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:07:10 +0000

This powerful video shows a talk with military analyst P. W. Singer, the author of Wired For War and the director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution.

The video is from the popular TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) and we get to hear about how military combat will change with widespread use of robots. He will describe scenarios, that sounds like science fiction but may soon become reality.

You can also download the video in alternative formats:

Posted in Combat

Lego robot solving a Rubik’s cube

roboticvids — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:01:46 +0000

This is a funny little video of a robot built with Lego Mindstorms, that has been programmed to solve a Rubik’s Cube.

Using a light sensor, the Robot can see the colors of the squares on the cube and thereby try to solve the challenge by calculating a solution.

Visit tiltedtwister.com for more information.

Posted in Lego

Deep Green, the robot that plays pool

roboticvids — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:35:52 +0000

This robot is able to both place the balls and shoot them in the right holes afterwards.

The same deveplopment team has also made some kind of augmented reality, where they use laser beams to show the possible paths of the pool balls you are about to hit. Watch the video to see a demonstration.

This pool-playing robot was developed at Vision lab in Queens University.

Awesome robot can catch a tennis ball

roboticvids — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:27:22 +0000

This robot called Toto can catch a flying tennis ball, when it is thrown to it.

It looks entertaining, but it may be useful for industrial robots when transporting things between robots by throwing and catching.

TOTO – tracking of thrown objects from Dennis Barteit on Vimeo.

The robot, Toto, was developed the Reinhold-Würth University in Künzelsau in cooperation with the Institute of Computer Technology, TU Vienna.

Posted in Industrial Tagged: Industrial, Reinhold-Würth, Toto, TU Vienna

Voluntary Milking System (7:54)

roboticvids — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:38:49 +0000

This robotic system will let the cows in a farm voluntary submit them selves to a robotic milking process.

Using this system, the cows will decide the milking time on its own. The whole milking process must be automated 100 %, because the cows can choose to be milked at any time.

The advanced system includes a robotic arm for the milking process, the milking machine itself and a gate system to control cows coming in and out. With an ID sensor in the cows, the system indentifies each cow before milking. This will ensure proper milking intervals and monitoring of the cows health.

Read more about AMS – automatic milking systems or about the company behind: DeLaval.

Posted in Industrial