Archive for the ‘technology’ Category

Creepy Robotics

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Whilst perusing the Make blog I came up another fine bit of robotics. As quoted from this interesting blog-

http://www.gizmogarden.com/index.php/Walking_Shopping_Cart

“Carlos was a college kinetic sculpture project. I was interested in the concept of automating aspects of society that were considered not so “glamorous”. Robotics are often used in environments which are considered dangerous to humans. Deep sea exploration, nuclear cleanup and volcanism are some of the “higher profile” adverse environments which robots are used. My question was, “What about other dangerous or hazardous areas?”.

Have you seen Big Dog?

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Boston Dynamics has been doing some interesting things with robotics. I present for your entertainment - Big Dog……Enjoy!