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Amazing robot that balances on a ball.
Posted on November 29, 2011 with 13 notes ()
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“Plenty of robots can fly — but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011.”
Also, check out a couple of more videos and an interview with the project manager for Festo SmartBird projecton on GrabCAD.
Posted on July 28, 2011 with 4 notes ()
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I’m really impressed with this design of a hemispherical omnidirectional gimbaled wheel drive system.
Apparently, it’s a “rubber hemisphere that spins on its axis very, very fast. When the hemisphere is vertical, it’s just like a spinning top, but by tilting the hemisphere so that one of its sides makes contact with the ground, you can vector torque in any direction near-instantaneously, depending on which side of the hemisphere you use.”
Read more at spectrum.ieee.org
Posted on July 13, 2011 with 10 notes ()
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Robots: You didn’t know they could juggle now. DID YOU? #robots #teotwawki
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