A Robot named LittleDog: developed at USC

Via: gizmodo.com

This robot crawler is called LittleDog and it's programmed to teach itself efficiency, possessing the ability to evaluate the difference between a good foothold and a bad one and adjusting its steps accordingly. In other words this robot keeps getting smarter all the time.



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Amazing: Robot Pedals 2 Seater Bicycle (Video)

Robotics is really coming close to iROBOT

Prego-Bot Gives Birth To Robo-Son

Via: phoenixnewtimes.com



This is kinda trippy, the University of Arizona Medical Center has a robotic woman that gives birth to a robotic son so that medical students can witness the horrors of robotic birth firsthand.

Named Noelle, she grunts, screams, yells at the doctors, pees, bleeds -- and yes, even gives birth (to a cute little robot baby named Hal). Paid for with a $40,000 grant from Miami-based Guarnard Scientific, the university bought Noell, baby Hal, and another, smaller robot-baby in January.

Then Noelle was taken out of commission for a while when medical students (yelp!) broke her pelvic bone. An average of 20 medical students a week diagnose all sorts of birth complications like cesareans and breach births. Noelle can even hemorrhage, all while screaming in pain and yelling things like "don't touch me" at the medical students.

Modular Snake Robot: Carnegie Mellon University Robotics

Via: cs.cmu.edu

If you've ever thought to yourself, gosh, I wish I had a modular snake robot with which to inspect these pipe joints I've just welded, well -- you're gonna love this video. Modular Snake Robot from the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute.

Robots are being used to teach various skills to preschool children

Via: digg.com



Are you ready for this? Can you stomach the truth? there's a good chance that your children or grandchildren will greet a lifelike robot when sashaying in for the first day of kindergarten. A new research effort published in this month's Science outlines new ways in which humanoids could actually be used to instruct our little ones. At the core of the project is imitation; humans, especially young ones, learn a multitude of mannerisms and such by simply watching others. Thus, it stands to reason that robots are "well-suited to imitate us, learn from us, socialize with us and eventually teach us." Already, these social bots are being used on an experimental basis to teach various skills to preschool children, "including the names of colors, new vocabulary words and simple songs."

Robotics will help those with degenerative muscle diseases

Ironman is a real concept (without the flying of course lol)

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This robotic body suit is called "The HAL" stands for (Hybrid Assistive Limb). The robot suit is going into mass production and will be available in Japan sometime soon for around $4,200.

It has the ability to grant its wearer tenfold strength increases during specific actions. It could very well change the lives of people with degenerative muscle diseases, or accident victims who would otherwise need long, difficult rehabilitative therapy to regain basic mobility. And with a five-hour battery life, it could be quite practical for day to day use.



Products like this exoskeleton have a frustrating tendency to remain in the labs and universities that spawned them, usually for reasons of impracticality or cost. But this one is going mainstream

What I think: I think rich people are going to have RoboCop fantasies with this suit and I'd hope that atleast importance is placed on giving a dystrophic child his legs back, rather then just selling to the mass public.