Collaborate Disseminate
The sound a set of machined robot legs tapping on concrete make is remarkable. If for nothing more, the video after the break is worth watching just for this. It’s what caught my attention when I first wandered by the Mech Warfare area at Maker Faire, as one of the …read more
Continue reading Mech Warfare: Like Driving a Building-Sized Robot Through a Busy City
If you’ve been keeping tabs on recent developments in robotics, you surely remember Handle — the awesome walking, wheeled robot from Boston Dynamics. There’s a good reason why such a combination is a good choice of locomotion for robots. Rolling on wheels is a good way to cover smooth terrain with high efficiency. But when you hit rocky patches or obstacles, using legs to negotiate these obstacles makes sense. But Handle isn’t the only one, nor is it the first.
[Radomir Dopieralski] has been building small robots for a while now, and is especially interested in how they move. He …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: Experiments with Wheeled Legs
New trailer shows off Scarlett Johansson as “The Major,” as well as piles of grim cyberpunky imagery. Continue reading The First ‘Ghost in the Shell’ Trailer Is Here
I start each day checking out the new and updated projects over on Hackaday.io. Each day one can find all manner of projects – from satellites to machine vision to rockets. One type of project which is always present are robots- robot arms, educational ‘bots, autonomous robots, and mobile robots. This week’s Hackaday.io had a few great robot projects show up on the “new and updated” page, so I’m using the Hacklet to take a closer look.
We start with [Jack Qiao] and Autonomous home robot that does things. [Jack] is building a robot that can navigate his home. He’s …read more
