Yuta Sugiura and his co-mate at the Graduate School of Media Design, Keio University have developed a new robot called Walky. It is controlled using iPhone rather than using some keyboard or traditional controller. Walking, turning, jumping, kicking, and other actions can be performed by the simple finger gestures on the iPhone’s touch screen.
“Walky follows in the finger-steps of their laundry-folding robot and UI system called Foldy.”
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Hey people, Youtuber Hot4darmat1 is turning his kid into a robot. That mech costume is made of cardboard and toilet paper rolls and spray paint. Video after the break. Read more…
Someone built an Arduino-powered autonomous robot built using random electronic parts and fixed it on a modified Pelican case with a lot of hot glue. The robot can play pretty well, hitting above 80%. Video after the break. Read more…
The Column Gear is a new robot developed by Japanese students. It does nothing but just transform with a motion activated remote control which you have to swing in the air. Video after the break. Read more…
Take a look at Wei-Chieh Tseng’s robotic mood tail. It moves like a cat’s tails and can detects different emotion cards that set off varying degrees of tail-wagging, thanks to its Arduino and an RFID reader. Video after the break. Read more…
The OmniZero.9 robot can transforms into a two-wheel scooter and also capable of carrying its creator. The OmniZero.9 robot is built by Vstone’s Takeshi Maeda. Measuring 3.5 foot tall and weighs 55lbs, able to roll with its two wheels, walks, carries and fight. He kicked out a small robot out of the ring. Videos after the break. Read more…
Fukitorimushi is a cleaning robot that moves like a worm and cleans up your floor. It is made of world’s first nano-level superfine polyester fiber. This type of cloth can absorb oil and pick up very fine dust particles. The robot will light up red when it spots a dirt area and then will start rubbing the dirt away and then go clean other places. When it goes tired, it will go to its charging station on its own. It looks like a pillow to me. Video after the break. Read more…
This robot is called the Murata Seiko, it is the second gen unicycling robot. It now comes with an improved turning ratio, balance, and three-times the speed of its predecessor. Her new-found ability allows it new-found ability. Video after the break. Read more…
Lithuanian twelfth grader Andrius Šutas has created a robot that can solve the Rubik’s cube and he shared secrets of the build like the schematics, CAD design, source code software/firmware etc – they are all available at sutas.lt. Video after the break. Read more…
Broken condoms are serious problem to users so as the company who make them. A coital robot was build to test the condom, there’s a “p” and “v” built on the robot to find common cause of breakage. That’s good but I’m afraid some people might misuse it as a f*cking machine.
[via Hackaday]