We forgot to mention this earlier, but those DARPA robots? They’re incredible.
Okay, this stuff is awesome.
Yeah, that’s gonna freak me out despite how awesome it is.
So awesome!
Sheer awesome?
Terrifying Flying Robot Quadrotors Perform the ‘James Bond’ Theme
Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab, Daniel Mellinger, Alex Kushleyev and Vijay Kumar, demonstrate the agility of their autonomous quadrotors by programming them to plunk out the James Bond theme music on a room full of instruments. Humans assign the robots a location in space and a time to get there, but the robots have to figure out how to navigate from point to point without colliding in midair. Kurtis Sensenig produced this dramatic video of the performance.
PETMAN – remarkable new humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics, capable of natural, agile movement like running and pushups. The latest addition to some impressive humanoid rockstar-robots developed in recent years.
3D Printed Hovering Ornithopter (by CornellCCSL)
This just screams Doc Oc to me. And I’m not even a comic book geek.
As design catches up to robotics computing, mechanical arms get cooler - Core77
