Mantis, a terrifying 6-terrain robot legs

There are all kinds of strange inventions, but this is one of the most terrifying we have seen in recent years. What we have here is a kind of robot capable of walking legs 6 by all kinds of terrain. It is known as Mantis and its creator is Matt Denton, chief designer and founder of Micromagic Systems, where the Mantis has been in development for about four years. To function has a diesel engine of 2.2 liter capacity.
Now we ask ourselves how we control a machine like this? Due to its height of 2.8 meters and a weight of 1900kg (almost 2 tons), Mantis control is via a WiFi connection, but do not have all the details. As we said, the machine is driving all types of terrain except water obviously. The only bad thing is that it is a very fast machine, so probably it becomes difficult to prosecute someone if those are your plans.
Unfortunately, the Mantis is not for sale, but still would have been difficult to find a suitable garage for storage.
If we see the Mantis in action in this video we can do down here.

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See the world's first robot firefighter

Did you know that there the firefighters robot? Probably not, because apparently that Thermite is considered the first firefighter robot world. The small, which as we said is called Thermite, has been created by Howe & Howe Technologies. The robot has wheels caterpillar (such as tanks), can pass almost any door and is capable of firing almost 2300 liters of water per minute.
Obviously, this robot is not cheap and does have a cost of $ 98,000 dollars, but if we compare, for example, with modern trucks often use fire, then yes it is cheap because the vehicles typically cost between $ 100,000 and $ 1 million of dollars every unit.
If you want to see it in action, a video is available through the link below.

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Interesting robot moves to sunny places plants

Anyone with a plant in your home will know that most of them need both water and light to grow, but sometimes the problem is to find a sunny spot suitable for our plant. To solve this small problem, the Belgian sculptor Stephen Verstraete has created an interesting robot.
This robot, which seems not to be named, is responsible for transporting the plant automatically to a place with sunlight. The robot is made from a recycled toy electric car and you have placed a photo-sensitive transistor, a pair of ICs and some more goodies totaling approximately $ 10, which is certainly cheap enough.
If you want to build your own, I suggest you visit the site Verstraete.

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Tappy, the T-Mobile robot software to test

Today there are several operating systems phones to smartphones, of course there are a lot of sellers and a large number of developers who are responsible for creating applications and software for mobile devices. Obviously, not all smartphones and tablets coming out of a factory are perfect. On several occasions, T-Mobile has had returns of equipment because customers were not satisfied because the devices had some problems at the software level.
To detect these devices with problems quickly, T-Mobile has created Tappy, a robot used to test the software for the devices. Before they are released by T-Mobile, test Tappy handles all kinds of mobile phones and tablets to determine whether they fit or if they develop a fault.
Among the things that Tappy is in charge of testing the device keyboard, music players and video, web browsing and more. T-Mobile says that since he uses the robot device returns have been reduced by 75%.
To capture the problems, Tappy has a camera that records everything. To pass the test a phone should work perfectly for 24 hours and must not show the slightest of problems.

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If this robot can recognize its reflection, does self-awareness?

 

So far, most of the evidence level robotics were to test whether robots could move properly, if they could meet certain simple functions, etc. But this is over, and that we may soon witness a new generation of robots with self-awareness, which for the most paranoid Terminator equals.
Leaving aside the fiction, this robot named Nico has been created in a robotics lab at Yale, and it is tested with mirrors, which have also been conducted in animals, and so far only apes, dolphins and elephants know they are being themselves.
The idea behind the robot Nico is, obviously, that can recognize itself in the mirror to see, which would certainly be a breakthrough at the level of the technology of artificial intelligence as it implies that the robot is aware of himself and knows what he sees in the mirror is him.
Nico try to recognize themselves in mirrors on year-end, after which we will have the results of the tests.

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Even babies have their own robots

How can a 5 month moving by itself? You can not, but could through the use of a robot, but it is a kind of robot-sitter, but a robot used to carry babies and forth at will.
This new generation of robots, equipped with modern technology , are aimed at babies with mobility problems, so parents have to worry a little less for their children.
Carole Dennis is a therapist in New York City, and she and her team want that small babies with similar problems and movement can grow properly like the rest.

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MechWarrior Online presents the Hunchback

Piranha Game and the development team of MechWarrior Online presented this week a new robot. A giant 50-ton, which although not the most handsome of the class, shows us all the power and what they are made of Mech middle class.
Built in a very solid, the Hunchback have enough armor and a good speed, and we believe it will fail in damage, has a AC/20 on the shoulders will be talking about. Its gameplay is designed to combat the short and medium range.

 

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Interesting robot that disguises itself in seconds

 

So far we have seen the scientists working on robots that can run, jump, climb, greet and do some things.  Nothing to worry about ... until now, scientists have created a robot that is able to blend a few seconds.
Harvard researchers presented the new version of its little robot can quickly blend in with their environment, becoming virtually invisible. The robot has channels along which the pigments that camouflage, but also because these channels can circulate liquids of different temperatures to make it undetectable to the cameras thermal and the like. Alternatively, the robot can carry liquids fluorescent glow in the dark.
Fortunately, this is a robot under development, so there is nothing to worry about, it will still be a long time before one of these to infiltrate our house to spy or anything similar.

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NASA achieved historical rover landing on Mars Curiosity (first photos)

 

Curiosity, as known to the robot vehicle of 2,500 million dollars that the U.S. Space Agency (NASA) sent to Mars, got through Monday at 05H31 GMT, capping a successful mission to Mars more sophisticated in history , according to NASA.

"Arrival confirmed," said a member of mission control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of NASA in Pasadena (California, U.S. West), while the office burst into celebrations.

"We put wheels on Mars. My God, "he added, after Curiosity successfully achieved its descent of seven minutes, which seems to have developed as planned despite its complexity.

Right after that pose Martian territory, amid laughter and applause from the staff of the checkpoint, an official of the mission distributed chocolate bars Mars brand to your computer.

After the relief came a second burst of joy when the robot sent his first picture of startling clarity, which portrays his own shadow in Marian soil.

It is anticipated that the mission of Curiosity last two years, and it is expected that, among other things, identify possible traces of past life on Mars.

 

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Curiosity can take pictures, smell, taste and pierce the Martian soil

The browser Curiosity has equipment to take pictures, smell, taste and even a laser to drill the soil of Mars, where he arrived in the early hours of Monday.
 The robot explore the environment to determine if the giant crater where it fell was once a habitable environment for microbial life.

The globetrotting six nuclear-powered wheels and includes a technology far more advanced than any other device that has landed on Mars. Among the tools carrying Curiosity is a laser that can open holes in rocks from a distance of over seven meters and identify the chemical elements inside. This strategy saves time point and shoot, as if a rock is boring, the "tourist" Mars can continue long.

His robot arm 7 meters long is an electric drill on the end that can pierce the surface rocks as well. Like a scientist in a lab, you can transfer the dust of the ground to his desk on board to unravel the minerals and "smell" in search of organic elements, considered the chemical building blocks of life.

 

What is the goal of an extraterrestrial journey if you can not see the tourist attractions? Curiosity promises to be a keen photographer carrying around a set of color cameras that can transmit 2 megapixel panoramic Earth. With YouTube fans in mind, also "packed" a video camera that will record the last minutes of his chilling descent to Mars.

Like the previous exploratory probes that preceded it, Curiosity has a weather station to measure daily temperature, pressure readings and record seasonal changes.

Even before landing, Curiosity has been doing experiments and scoured the radiation during the eight-month journey to Mars and a half. That should help NASA assess the radiation risk for future astronauts traveling long distances.

Despite being so complex, Curiosity will not be able to tell us if life ever existed on Mars early, or if there now. The one-ton vehicle is not equipped for it and their cameras are not powerful enough to see the relics fossils, if any.

Apart from their skills, engineers also equipped them with a sense of style. It has aluminum parts of 50 cm, twice the size of the wheels of rovers Spirit and Opportunity that landed in 2004 with titanium spokes and pull nails. However, it can be very equipped, but a bit slow: a top speed of 0.16 mph.

 

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Windoro, the robot cleaner

 

Windoro is a real robot has been designed with a number of technological art to perform functions of cleaning the windows , wandering through the halls and a host of similar activities.
Windoro was composed of two parts that are integrated through a crystal that is inspired by a neodymium magnet system. PIRO Korean company has launched this exciting proposal that includes a set of cloths rotating at high speed and a detergent cleaner .

Although Windoro is limited to this type of cleaning, this is an important step that will significantly reduce the human effort, making it easier and efficient if we compare time performance and results. Because of their morphology, Windoro has not yet developed an intuitive ability that allows you to dodge obstacles at heights. These drawbacks are steadily through the trim and some surfaces between each glass.
Given these considerations, we can say that r is an Obot Windoro specializes only in large glass windows that have no basis to alter the separation of its surface. The creators of the robot cleaner still have not provided many details about the autonomy of the product, but said they will be available in Europe for a value of 429 euros.

The unique robot end to be marketed in much of Europe and the United States during the week. Windoro is emerging as the first step in a series of advances for easy cleaning and maintenance work.

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Swumanoid, the Japanese robot could replace the lifeguards

 

Scientists at the Institute of Technology in Tokyo have been very busy lately Swumanoid in developing a humanoid robot capable of swimming and one day could be the replacement of the lifeguards.
Swumanoid The prototype is able to swim and crawl to 0.64 meters per second, you can swim back and even butterfly swimming style that many regard as the most difficult because it is the most stressful, but being a robot, fatigue is not a problem.
The main objective of the team that is developing the Swumanoid is to one day help save the lives of those who are drowning. Are also expected to be used to collect data and repeating patterns to analyze hundreds of times, helping to refine the techniques of human swimmers.

Maybe in 10 years to see these robots saving people on the beaches around the world.

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