Category: Robots/World Domination

Artificial butterfly for studying insect flight

The beautiful rubber band-powered artificial butterfly is helping researchers understand the flight of swallowtails. … Read More

Zenta Strike Again! Archer the Biped!

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If you’ve read this blog at all over the past few years, you’ll know we’re big fans of Kåre Halvorsen’s (aka Zenta) work. … Read More

DIY PIXAR: M-O (Microbe Obliterator) Cleaner Bot

Geeker robotics: a2a1c26689306ca2233c32ef7ad76d2f DIY PIXAR: M O (Microbe Obliterator) Cleaner BotHey Instructabrarians, it’s July 27th and you know what that means!
Probably not because I just made it up, it’s PIXAR Animation Fan Week!
Folks, if you’ve ever seen my DIY PIXAR booth at the San Mateo Maker
Faire, you’ll know that I am a mega huge PIXAR fan.  I absolutely
love their movies and …
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Originally from Instructables: exploring – popular on July 27, 2010, 5:41pm

Play Tennis with your Quadcopter

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For indoor flight this Quadcopter uses 4 Sharp IR sensors, they are able to determine the range of obstacles by bouncing IR light off an object and calculate the angle of return. The flight is amazingly stable, this quadcopter allows for automatic takeoff, landing and hovering. … Read More

Cornell’s Ranger Robot Walks 23 km

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Remember Big Dog? Well there is a new walking robot king in town. Cornell’s Ranger Robot has just broken the record for distance for a bipedal robot. It took over 65 thousand steps before the battery died! … Read More