This invention is pretty cool and it also opens (or better, fits) into the more general topic of soft robotics, a new breed of robots that can be used in a totally new set of occasions: One of the latest contenders in soft robotics is the Glaucus. Named after the blue sea slug Glaucus atlanticus, this soft…
This super cool multifunctional – open source – delta robot just launched on Indiegogo. The cool thing is that by using magnetic based attachments, ZeGo can quickly and easily be turned into a 3D printer, engraver, entry level pick and place machine, and much more! The ZeGo bot is multifunction delta robot. And it is one…
Spotted on kickstarter, this hackable, Arduino compatible, robot seems pretty cool. A friendly, hackable, Arduino™ compatible robot. Perfect for any aspiring evil genius creating their own open-source robot army. A hackable, Arduino™ compatible, good looking robot that will transform the way you learn, play and experiment with mobile machines and a perfect starting point for…
Just received from the Submit section…not open source but it’s really too cool not to mention 🙂 My collaborator and I just launched a hardware kit for a miniature delta robot on Kickstarter called, “The Robot Army Starter Kit”. The funding will allow us to keep our kits in production after fulfillment, as well as…
The drone frenzy is not stopping: after years of drone fights, these guys ended up with the toughest Action-Sports AirFrame for drones and they’re currently raising funds on kickstarter for few days. Sadly, non open source. Sa The project was born in the SF Bay Area, the result of years of research in the unforgiving…
An incredible new project on Kickstarter, an open source hardware (mini imitation) of an industrial Arm: quite cool! uArm is an Arduino-powered desktop 4-axis parallel-mechanism robot arm, modeled after the ABB industrial PalletPack robot. The Story When hearing the word “robot”, most of us may think of the giant industrial robot arms. They can precisely…
Apeiros is a “low cost, open source, expandable, mobile robot that can be used for education, hobby and research related activities.” I designed and validated a robot that was used as a tool for teaching Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and as a tool for swarm robotics research. I have done my best to…
You know guys, when a beautiful, and innovative open source project comes up, we need to celebrate: that’s the case with uArm! “uArm is an Arduino-powered desktop 4-axis parallel-mechanism robot arm, modeled after the ABB industrial PalletPack robot.” Check it out on kickstarter! via uArm: Put a Miniature Industrial Robot Arm on Your Desk by…
Very beautiful robotics and open source project coming from France: Poppy is an Open-source humanoid platform based on robust, flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. Designed by the Flowers Lab at Inria Bordeaux and Ensta ParisTech (France), its development aims at providing an affordable and hackable humanoid robot for science, education, art and geeks. Poppy was initially made for our research project about understanding biped…
Incredible stuff coming up from MIT. Think to these things, miniaturized. Known as M-Blocks, the robots are cubes with no external moving parts. Nonetheless, they’re able to climb over and around one another, leap through the air, roll across the ground, and even move while suspended upside down from metallic surfaces. Inside each M-Block is…
The T8 is made nightmare-inducing not only by its 3D-printed and somewhat realistic-looking skin but by the preternatural movements that mimic living eight-leggers. According to Robugtix, that’s thanks largely to the company’s “Bigfoot” inverse kinematics engine, which uses math calculations to figure out how the robot-arachnid should move. Using 26 servo motors and a wireless…
During my internship at Fablab Amsterdam, I came across a device that fascinated me a lot. It was a freaky looking headset called the Emotive EPOC that promised to be able to read one’s mind using EEG. When you wear it, it can separate 16 different thoughts, all based on a direction or a movement…
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