The AMOS-WD06 is a biologically inspired six-legged walking machine that is able to adapt it’s behavior self-organized. The learning machanism is based on the chaos theory. 18 sensors drive 18 motors by means of a simple neural control circuit, thereby generating 11 basic behavioural patterns (for example, orienting, taxis, self-protection and various gaits) and their [...]
Flapping its little wings 30 times per second made of PET film, balsa wood and carbon built by a research team from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands with a total weight of 3.07 grams equipped with a camera It’s the world’s smallest camera plane – the DelFly Micro (found at technovelgy)! Maybe James [...]
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is now able to produce affordable synthetic skin with a new automation process. credit: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft It’s an ”almost perfect copy of the human skin,” says Professor Heike Mertsching, one of the coordinators of Fraunhofer’s Automated Tissue Engineering on Demand project. That system, to be made commercially available by the end of 2010, is expected [...]
A new DVD projector from Nikko was presented at the CES. It supports nearly all formats, has an integrated speaker system, an iPod docking station, numerous audio and video ins and outs, a card reader and a lot more such gimmicks. That’s all fine, but there is one thing that coaxes a smile out of [...]
Engineers at the University of Tokyo built a robot that can leap like a frog. They describe it as follows: Mowgli’s artificial musculoskeletal system consists of six McKibben pneumatic muscle actuators including bi-articular muscle and two legs with hip, knee, and ankle joints. Mowgli can reach jump heights of more than 50% of its body [...]
