When you have a look at this Beer Pong Robot video by Empire Robotics you can see that some cool engineering went into making this robot very accurate (or a ton of takes were taken). The green thing on the end of the arm is what Empire makes, it is an ingenious mechanism for gripping items. Via: Geeks are Sexy and Gizmodo “The core principle behind VERSABALL is the jamming phase
We have seen how impressive the ABB Robotic systems are, have a look at the latest example. Here we have a ABB Robotic Barista from Automatica 2014 Munich. The robot opens the coffee brewer, selects and inserts the coffee grounds container, positions the coffee cup, places a plate and puts the coffee cup on the plate. Finally a conveyor brings the coffee out of the protective robot enclosure to
What a great job the team at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory did. They built this Double Prosthetic Arm with Mind Control to allow Les Baugh to once again have arms and hands. He lost them in an electrical accident over 0 years ago. I can’t imagine the feeling Les has after so many years living without arms and now finally have some high tech versions to work
The MagneBike is an interesting magnetic robot that is surprisingly flexible and can maneuver some crazy metal geometries. “Locomotion Concept and Robot Design Two wheels in a motorbike arrangement: better adaptation to the surface (flat or curved). Magnetic wheel unit including lateral lifter/stabilizer arms. The lifter functionality helps to pass over step obstacles. The stabilizer functionality allows to drive sideway. Five active DoF: front/rear wheel, front/rear lifter, steering unit.”
What to do after you get your hands on a discarded scanning electron microscope. Ben Krasnow from Applied Science took the signal directly out of the device and fed it into a DSO. He was then able to capture it at a much higher resolution than is displayed on the original CRT that came with the unit. The results are incredible.
If you love building things you know that great tools allow you to make really cool things. Check out the setup over at Autodesk’s Innovation Workshop! You can see some of the projects that have come out of there here. Via: Adafruit “Our artists in residence share their creative projects with the Pier 9 community, where they get the opportunity to share their work with hundreds of millions of
Printing this car took just 44 hours our out of 44 parts. Just bolt on some electronics and wheels are you are ready to drive! Love the design but up close it doesn’t look polished like a metal vehicle but you can see that it goes together in thick levels. What will we see in the future? Instead of customizing your new car by picking a color, interior trim
