19 October, 2014
How to Thwart the Robot Apocalypse
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16 July, 2013
Robotic Uprising? Ridiculous! Or Maybe Not… Your Choice.
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Here’s Aaron Saenz at the Bay Area Art & Science Interdisciplinary Collaborative Sessions (BAASICS) on the possibility of the robotic apocalypse.
29 March, 2011
Festo’s robotic herring gull takes flight.
Here’s the press copy:
Aerodynamic lightweight design
SmartBird is an ultralight but powerful flight model with excellent aerodynamic qualities and extreme agility. With SmartBird, Festo has succeeded in deciphering the flight of birds – one of the oldest dreams of humankind.
This bionic technology-bearer, which is inspired by the herring gull, can start, fly and land autonomously – with no additional drive mechanism. Its wings not only beat up and down, but also twist at specific angles. This is made possible by an active articulated torsional drive unit, which in combination with a complex control system attains an unprecedented level of efficiency in flight operation. Festo has thus succeeded for the first time in creating an energy-efficient technical adaptation of this model from nature.
New approaches in automation
The functional integration of coupled drive units yields significant ideas and insights that Festo can transfer to the development and optimisation of hybrid drive technology.
The minimal use of materials and the extremely lightweight construction pave the way for efficiency in resource and energy consumption.
Festo already today puts its expertise in the field of fluid dynamics to use in the development of the latest generations of cylinders and valves. By analysing SmartBird’s flow characteristics during the course of its development, Festo has acquired additional knowledge for the optimisation of its product solutions and has learned to design even more efficiently.
19 October, 2010
Wow…
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The HRP-4C gynoid…dancing.
15 July, 2010
The Precursors of your Cylon Overlords Are Here
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Well…not really. But they’ve got arms and can walk.
18 May, 2010
MOntage of ICRA 2010: