Techno Tokyo: Robot Worn On Your Body Can Increase Your Strength
In the latest installment of NY1’s two-week series looking at technology in Japan, Techno Tokyo, we meet the bionic man…sort of. Tech Beat Reporter Adam Balkin explains
more info: http://ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?&aid=61474
The “Real” Gundam!!!
Check out this webpage!!
See the human below the Gundam!! HOLY!
Translation: The person who is done, [tokoro] which writes such explanation by the hand is funny to here. You observe here! The hydraulic operation with power electricity
So! As for this Gundam, from crotch joint under something! The hydraulic cylinder being installed, it was to move! (Now you have stopped, so is)
Gundam Seed Model Competition 2006 Malaysia
How I wish these can move!
Huge Gundam Model!!
This is real cool! However they are not remote controlled robots…too bad!
Unbelievable Body Armor Test (Shot 63 times with an M16)
NIJ Level III Body armor chest plate ballistic test where the plate was shot 63 times with a military issue M16 with the last 30 rounds fired in full automatic mode.
- Looks like it’s ready for robotic body armor plating!! ^_^
Liquid Body Armor
Well, this video shows that the demand for special armor for soldier is in great demand!
Troy Hurtubise II: Project Grizzly goes to war
Not exactly robotics related however with the demand for soldier’s armor suit….who knows when this guy will build in exoskeleton into his armor for soldiers!
Let’s see…who want to join force with me to create the dream suit!
Springwalker Exoskelton
A Exoskelton that can run!?
Robot Suit “HAL 5: Hybrid Assistive Limb 5″
HAL 5 or Hybrid Assistive Limb 5 is a robot suit (aka artificial powered exoskeleton) developed by Yoshiyuki Sankai who is the professor of Tsukuba University of Japan.
HAL 5 is currently capable of allowing the operator to lift and carry nearly twice as much weight as they could lift and carry unaided.
- This is amazing technology!
Game Trailer: War Front (Exoskeleton)
Check out the Exoskeleton, a mechanized unit that’s sort of like a battlemech.
Berkley Exoskeleton (BLEEX)
Fans of the novel Starship Troopers and anime are well aware of the concept of powered armor. Well, here are literally the first steps towards it.
Tetsujin 2004 Human Exoskeleton Weight Lift
The Tetsujin competitions are to build human mechanical Exoskeletons to assist in lifting heavy loads… http://www.robogames.net for upcoming competitions
-Weight Lifting maybe just the tip of the ice berg…for these Exoskeleton!!! Soon it will be combat ready! lol
Robot Humps
Hector, the world’s first robotic adult film star, goes to town on household appliances.
“Ultra-Cooool!”
Future Robots?
Maybe in the future…robots can move as fluid as these!! 
The TechX Challenge
According to TechX Challange :
Objective
The TechX Challenge is a competition organised by DSTA, Singapore’s national authority for defence science and technology.
It aims to inspire and engage the wider community of engineers and technologists, challenging them to defy conventional thinking and stretch the boundary of science and technology for defence and national security.
This is in line with DSTA’s overall strategy to develop greater indigenous capacity for innovation in R&D to sharpen the technological edge for Singapore’s defence.
Overview
The first TechX Challenge is a race among autonomous robots in an urban setting.
The developers of the autonomous robot that completes all the stipulated tasks most quickly within a specified time will be awarded a prize of S$1 million.
DSTA welcomes interested individuals, companies, tertiary institutions and research institutes to develop an autonomous robot capable of operating in such a constrained environment. Foreign parties are required to collaborate with local partners to participate in the Challenge.
The TechX Challenge includes a review of eligibility, a qualifying round, with the final competition scheduled in August 2008. The layout of the site chosen for the final round of the competition will only be made known very close to or on the day of the finals itself.
For details on the timeline for the TechX Challenge, please click on “Key dates”.
- Anyone want to partner with me to make a autonomous robot????? Contact me! Need more details on this competition do check out the TechX Home.
Robots quick-step humans into the future at US exhibition
According to Yahoo!News UK Ireland :
Actroid Der Kokoro — an android resembling a young Japanese woman — talks with reporters during the Nexfest festival in New York. The robot understands common phrases in English and Japanese and can meet, greet and entertain humans. The three-day event features more than 160 interactive and visionary exhibits from scientists and researchers.
NEW YORK (AFP) - Robots are ready to take over from the army of workers who do not have time to prepare their daily meals. They could also teach you ballroom dancing.
The NextFest exhibition in New York has mechanical chefs, the smart fridge that tells you when the orange juice is running low, Japanese digital dancers and even, for separated families, a T-shirt that gives a long-distance hug.
NextFest features 160 futuristic inventions from companies and institutions around the world, addressing growing climatic fears as well as more mundane domestic concerns.
The displays seem fantastic enough, but Chris Anderson, chief editor of Wired magazine, which organised the event, said: “We are at a very early stage of the digital revolution, and here we are only seeing glimpses of it.”
The NextFest robots take a lot of the centre stage.
“Never mind helping humankind explore space or do dangerous jobs. The next generation of robots is here to help us figure out what we’re doing Saturday night,” says the programme for the exhibition of 12 robots from Japan, South Korea, Britain and the United States.
There is a robot DJ that can play vinyl discs from dusk till dawn without getting tired.
Two former Massachussetts Institute of Technology (MIT) students have created a robot orchestra that plays real instruments — wind instruments, drums, xylophones — but in a very modern style.
“I’m a composer and I was writing music people couldn’t play,” said Christine Southworth, one of the creators of Ensemble Robot.
“I didn’t want electronic music but instruments. Robots can play very fast and precisely. People love it, because they’ve never seen it before.”
“Actroid DER” has amazingly lifelike silicon skin and a silky voice to match. It is rented out to Japanese companies to act as a receptionist or to make high-tech presentations.
Takeshi Mita, a director of Kokoro Company LTD, which makes the Actroid, said “companies want something special, it’s a good advertisement or a promotion.”
The Actroids drew complimentary remarks from visitors such as French designer Philippe Starck. Other robots do not seem obvious candidates to take over from human counterparts.
The Dance Robots in ballgowns by Yasuhisa Hirata of Japan’s Tohoku University could help people with two left feet. But they have not yet been tested in a night club and are intended as models for moving frames to help the elderly walk around.
The digital revolution is more advanced in the kitchen.
General Electric has developed an intelligent kitchen where the soap powder can be rationed and the oven temperature can be automatically set according to the meal. A fridge can even send a telephone message to its owner to let him or her know which food to stock up on.
MIT has developed a spoon that identifies the food and gives its temperature.
Human warmth is also included in the revolution.
Two young scientists have created a T-shirt that has sensors at the waist and shoulders. One person wearing the “hug shirt” can squeeze the shirt which then sends a message by portable phone to someone wearing a similar shirt at long distance, who then gets a digital hug with the same pressure and temperature. Well, it’s the thought that counts.
Security is also a major feature of NextFest.
One company is working on an embarkation card that guarantees the identity of the carrier for security guards at airport gates.
The “PayByTouch” system allows credit transactions using a finger print as the signature. Its creators highlight how there was an estimated 53 billion dollars of credit card fraud in the United States last year.
For environmentalists there are houses made from recycled materials and many simple, everyday items intended to highlight energy conservation.
The metallic petals on the “Flower Lamp”, an overhead light, will only open if the house’s electricity consumption is at an agreed low.
The “Power Aware” cord glows, depending on how much electricity is being consumed.
“The green issue is becoming a mainstream idea this year,” said Victor Friedberg, director of the NextFest event which ends on Sunday.
- Seriously, I am freak out..haa. Who will benefit? The boss who employ the robots… I guess…haa
Gun-toting robot may guard Korean border
According to TodayOnline : Borneo Bulletin : Yahoo!News
SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea on Thursday unveiled a high-tech, machine gun-toting sentry robot that could support its troops in detecting and killing intruders along the heavily fortified border with North Korea.
The weapons-grade robot can detect, raise the alarm and provide suppressive fire, said Lee Jae-Hoon, deputy minister of commerce, industry and energy.
“The Intelligent Surveillance and Guard Robot has surveillance, tracking, firing and voice recognition systems built into a single unit,” he added.
Lee said hundreds of the robots could be deployed along the 155-mile-long (248 kilometre) demilitarised zone bisecting the two Koreas as well as along the country’s coastline and at military airfields.
With modifications, they could also be used to guard civilian installations such as airports, power stations and oil pipelines.
However, the government has made no decision yet on whether to deploy the robots along the world’s last Cold War frontier.
Equipped with visual and infra-red detection capabilities, the sentry robot can spot moving objects up to four kilometres (2.5 miles) away during the day and half that distance at night.
Via “pattern recognition,” it can distinguish between humans, cars or trees at two kilometres in daytime and one kilometre at night.
Suppressive fire can be provided by a machine gun on top.
The robot was developed by a group of four institutions including Samsung Techwin Co. and Korea University over three years at a cost of some 10 million dollars in government and private funds.
Terminator!!!
It’s a funny terminator clip from MadTV haha…Seeking for terminator in youtube is so fun!!!!
Macross Zero!!
Go buy the DVD!!
GUNDAM in Xbox360!!!!!!
Heard it’s 100% real and going to be out in the coming holiday season !!!?!?!?
Anyone can confirm?
MORE robots!
A example of a robotic combat, rules are simple…bring that robot down!
Self-Replicating Repairing Robots (http://www.forofriki.com)
Engineers at Cornell University have designed this odd-looking machine that can rebuild itself and also could perform repairs on itself.
http://www.forofriki.com
Transformer - The Movie
Coming out Soon on 7th April 2007!
Transformer!
This robot, named WR-07, was created by Nakamura-san of Himeji Soft Works in Japan. His creations have won lots of awards and prizes at the Robo-One Battle Robots competitions here and are always a big hit with the crowds. There’s more information about the robot and Nakamura-san on the Robots Dreams weblog at http://www.robots- dreams.com
A Excellent Japanese Robot!!
These video clips is in one of the robot competition
About World of Robotics
This blog is about the world of robotics, the latest news and videos about the development in the world of robots and high technology inventions all over the world.
My fascination with robotics also plays a part in this blog as the world we know now is going to be very different in the near future. The movies such as Terminator (1,2,3), The Matrix, Gundam Seeds and many more robotic theme entertainment might be just the preview of what the REAL World in maybe 10 to 20 years time.
Discover the current world of robotics!
Sincerely
Simon Tay
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