The world's tallest two legged robot can play soccer
This Unit 33 robot is 7 feet tall which made him the world's tallest two-legged robot. He can also walk, turn, twist, take a bow and amazingly play soccer.
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The world's tallest two legged robot that can play soccer
The world's tallest two legged robot can play soccer
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World's largest and most expensive Cruise ship sets sail
The world's largest and expensive cruise liner on Friday began its first voyage to Florida, gliding out from a shipyard in Finland with an amphitheater, basketball courts and an ice rink on board.
The 16-deck Oasis of the Seas spans 1,200 feet (360 meters) from bow to stern. Its 2,700 cabins can accommodate 6,300 passengers and 2,100 crew.
Commissioned by Royal Caribbean International, the ship cost euro 1 billion ($1.5 billion) and took two and a half years to build at the STX Finland Oy shipyard in Turku, southwestern Finland.
The liner has four swimming pools, volleyball and basketball courts, and a youth zone with theme parks and nurseries for children. There is also an ice rink that seats 780 spectators and a small-scale golf course.
It features various "neighborhoods" - parks, squares and arenas with special themes. One of them will be a tropical environment, including palm trees and vines among the total 12,000 plants on board. They will be planted after the ship arrives in Fort Lauderdale.
In the stern, a 750-seat outdoor theater - modeled on an ancient Greek amphitheater - doubles as a swimming pool by day and an ocean front theater by night. The pool has a diving tower with spring boards and two 33-feet (10-meter) high dive platforms. An indoor theater seats 1,300 guests.
Promo video for the $1.4 Billion Cruise Ship
World's Largest Cruise Ship Sets Sail
Accommodation includes loft cabins measuring 545 square feet (51 square meters) with floor-to-ceiling windows. There are also 1,600-square-feet (150 square meter) luxury suites with balconies overlooking the sea or promenades.
One of the "neighborhoods," named Central Park, features a square with boutiques, restaurants and bars, including the "Rising Tide" bar, which the shipping line describes as "the first moving bar at sea."
The Oasis of the Seas was due to call in at the English port of Southampton before continuing its voyage across the Atlantic.
STX Finland is building a sister ship - Allure of the Seas - for Royal Caribbean which is due to be launched in 2011.
Via - ABC News
Russian robotic soldier revealed in Moscow
A prototype track-mounted combat platform tailored to use Russian weapons has been unveiled at an arms show in Moscow. Producers say it beats the similar American bot widely used in Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns.
The bot, called MRK-27-BT, was produced by the robotics lab of the Moscow Bauman Technical University. It was shown to the public at the Interpolitex-2009 arms exhibition.
MRK-27-BT’s standard armament includes two Shmel rocket launchers, two grenade launchers, a Pecheneg machine gun with a 100 round ammunition belt, and six smoke grenades. It is operated with a couple of joysticks and has a maximum range of 500 meters. All the weapons are standard issue used by human soldiers and can be detached in the field.The project is similar to SWORDS, a weaponized version of Foster-Miller’s TALON platform. While the platform is extensively used by US military for disposing of explosives and other tasks, the real weapon-wielding bot was never used in actual combat.
Russian developers say their project beats the American counterpart in mobility and speed thanks to a superior track design. Its weapon mount is more flexible and can extend over a foxhole edge. It also has a built-in recoil suppressor. At the same time the Russian robot is larger, standing 1.5 meters tall with its mount raised, while SWORDS is barely knee high.
Designers hope that Russian Defense Ministry will order a trial series of the platform. However, according to RIA Novosti’s sources, top brass want a developed doctrine about the use of combat robots before committing.
Source - Russia Today
The most expensive iPhone
The most expensive iPhone
Austrian luxury designer and jeweler, Peter Aloisson created the world's most expensive iPhone. The current project is called Apple iPhone Princess Plus.
The body made of 18-carat white gold, incl. rhodium trim. Frame encrusted with 138 princess cut and 180 brilliant cut diamonds
Total number of diamonds are 318-320. Total diamond weight 16.50 – 17.75 carats. It uses the best quality diamond.
I wonder what is the important of buying the really expensive phone like this. Why not use the money to help desperate and poor people :)
Via - aloisson.com
Dinasours alive and roaring
Dinosaurs - in the realm of giants (Ensemble) at german TV-Show Wetten dass. What a happening show and the mechanical dinasours look real. Imagine if they are really live and roaring like that, i don't think the audience still sitting there and smiling.
Car can move in any directions
These guys are so smart. Look at the modified car, it can move in any directions and can be drived by two person - opposite direction. Maybe car companies like Ford, Mitsubishi, Toyota, even Ferrari should think to produce this kind of car too.
Any Direction moving car
'Power Loader' suit from Activelink
Inspired by the fictional hydraulic exoskeleton machine famously piloted by Sigourney Weaver in the classic movie Aliens, now comes this Power loader suit by engineers from Activelink, a Kyoto-based subsidiary of Panasonic.
Built on an aluminum-alloy frame and weighs 230 kilograms (500 lbs). Described as a 'dual-arm power amplification robot,' the exoskeleton suit is currently equipped with 18 electromagnetic motors that enable the wearer to lift 100 kilograms (220 lbs) without breaking a sweat.
Still in the development phase, Activelink hopes to see a marketable version arrive in the markets by the year 2015.
Scene from Alien
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Electric unicycle by Honda
An electric unicycle has been unveiled by Honda which says will revolutionise the way we get around and allow people to travel to work without breaking sweat.
The technology used in the sleek and silver U3X 'personal mobility device' has been borrowed from the company's famous Asimo humanoid robot.
An internal balance control means that it constantly stands upright. In order to move, a driver simply has to lean in the direction they wish to travel (forwards, backwards, side-to-side or diagonally) and the 'personal mobility' device sets off on its single wheel.
The device stands 26ins (65cm) high, weighs just 22lbs (10kg) and is powered by a lithium ion battery that runs for one hour before needing to be recharged.
It also has foot rests that fold out from the body and can move at a maximum speed of 3.7mph, described by the designers as the pace of a brisk walk.
The unicycle was unveiled in Tokyo by Honda's president Takanobu Ito, who emphasised that the U3-X was still in the planning stages.
"We believe this is the first step in realising the fun of human transportation and expanding that joy indefinitely," he said.
"And if my legs get a little weak, I would like to have one of these around the house. It makes it easy to move about."
Chief engineer Yasuhisa Arai said Honda had no immediate plans to sell the device but was looking into its potential uses.
Via - Orange News
Forkless bycycle
Can you see the forks on this bycycle? Of course you can't because Olli Erkkila did not put the forks on it. This is a Graduation Project of Olli Erkkila for Institute of Design in Lahti - Finland. He name it Forkless- Cruiser. What a cool bike :)
Forkless bycycle by Olli Erkkila
Source - ollierkkila.com
Exercise instructor Robot for the elderly
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) reveal a small humanoid robot that able to train the elderly in physical exercises. Height 70cm, weight 6.5kg, employ lithium polymer battery with 26 joints in its body (leg 6 × 2, Arm 5 × 2, waist, neck 2).
The robot named 'Taizo' can perform 30 different exercises. Speech recognition is a generic speech recognition engine has been developed in open source "Julius" by using speech recognition grammar description, RT interaction control engine is implemented as a component SEAT / SAT uses a dynamic depending on the context switching models perform recognition. OS is Linux 2.6.24.
The product will be ship next year with the price range from 700,000 Yen - 800,000 Yen (approx. $8,000).
Via - Pink Tentacle , 11 Sept 2009
Mobile phone robot that monitors your daily activities
Polaris is a new model concept of mobile phone combined with robot system, developed by a Japanese company, KDDI in partnership with Flower Robotics robot manufacturer. It consists of a mobile phone and a spherical robotic cradle.
This mobile phone can monitors your day-to-day activities because it is equipped with learning capabilities. Acting like a personal secretary. The robot keeps a database of information accumulated through the handset. Then it will give advice on how to maintain or improve your current condition by learning to predict the user's behaviour.
The robotic cradle charges the handset and analyzes the data to provide health, weather and business updates to the users. The handset, when placed in the cradle, also works as a remote to control other gadgets, including your TV. Once plugged into a TV, the Polaris provides access to all phone data and basic information like weather, news, as well as monitor your health, daily travel and walking habits, calls and email messages sent and received, and online transactions.
Via - Impress , 9 Sept 2009
Michael Pritchard's water filter turns filthy water that contains viruses drinkable
Imagine the smallest bacteria (Tuberculosis Bacteria) size is 200nm (nanometer). And the smallest virus (Polio Virus) is about 25nm. But this Lifesaver water filter's pore is just 15nm. So even the smallest bacteria and smallest virus can't get through.
During the twin tragedies of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, Ipswich water-treatment expert Michael Pritchard winced helplessly at televised coverage of throngs of refugees waiting for days for a simple drink of clean water. Stricken by the chronic failure of aid agencies to surmount this basic challenge, Pritchard decided to do something about it.
Source - TED
During the twin tragedies of the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, Ipswich water-treatment expert Michael Pritchard winced helplessly at televised coverage of throngs of refugees waiting for days for a simple drink of clean water. Stricken by the chronic failure of aid agencies to surmount this basic challenge, Pritchard decided to do something about it. Using a non-chemical nano-filtration hollow fiber membrane with 15 nanometer pores (it is designed to block viruses), the Lifesaver bottle can make the most revolting swamp water drinkable in seconds. Better still, a single long-lasting filter can clean 6,000 liters of water. Given the astronomical cost of shipping water to disaster areas, Pritchard's Lifesaver bottle could turn traditional aid models on their heads.
Source - TED
The robot-like machine that can laugh
Pink Tentacle reported about a video showing a machine that can laugh. It's not really laugh like human actually but only can say Wa ha ha. Maywa Denki president Nobumichi Tosa has created a video detailing the inner workings of the manually-operated WAHHA GO GO laughing machine.
According to the video below, WAHHA GO GO is activated by spinning the torso-mounted metal disk (an optional crank arm can be used for greater speed). The disk’s rotational energy is transferred to the machine’s left and right arms via a gear assembly in the lower back. As the arms rotate, the accordion-like lungs expand upward, drawing in air that is then exhaled through the machine’s artificial vocal cords.
Another set of gear wheels in the spine transfers some of the spinning disk’s rotational energy to the head assembly, which includes a pair of tiny arms that stretch and relax WAHHA GO GO’s artificial vocal cords (thus regulating the pitch), as well as an arm connected to a valve that controls the flow of air from the lungs. This arm also opens and closes the mouth, which alters the so-called “formant characteristics” (resonant frequency) of the laugh, producing the “wa” and “ha” sounds.
By incorporating a series of mechanisms that work together to control the pitch, resonant frequency, and amount of air supplied to the artificial vocal cords, WAHHA GO GO is able to produce an uncanny human-like laugh.
Maybe this technique can be combined with other robotic and cyborg techniques, to produce a better quality robot, at the same time can laugh. Or maybe it is just wasting time ;)
Via : Pink Tentacle
Another set of gear wheels in the spine transfers some of the spinning disk’s rotational energy to the head assembly, which includes a pair of tiny arms that stretch and relax WAHHA GO GO’s artificial vocal cords (thus regulating the pitch), as well as an arm connected to a valve that controls the flow of air from the lungs. This arm also opens and closes the mouth, which alters the so-called “formant characteristics” (resonant frequency) of the laugh, producing the “wa” and “ha” sounds.
By incorporating a series of mechanisms that work together to control the pitch, resonant frequency, and amount of air supplied to the artificial vocal cords, WAHHA GO GO is able to produce an uncanny human-like laugh.
Maybe this technique can be combined with other robotic and cyborg techniques, to produce a better quality robot, at the same time can laugh. Or maybe it is just wasting time ;)
Via : Pink Tentacle
The ECCEROBOT mimicking human body
The idea behind the Eccerobot project is "Why try and build human-like robots from scratch if you can cash on thousands of years of evolution, which have produced a good working model – we humans".ECCEROBOT, which stands for “Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot”, takes mimicking human body to a new level. Unlike robots such as Honda’s ASIMO, the machine – developed by several European institutes – is not only shaped as a humanoid, but also has an internal structure similar to the bones and muscles you and I have.
The robot’s anatomy is not organic. The bones are made of a thermoplastic polymer, which can be molded by hand if heated to 60 degrees Celsius, but set at room temperature. And stiff kite-lines pulled by screwdrivers serve as the muscles.
The most difficult part is controlling all this machinery. The robot only has parts from the waist up, but it takes 80 artificial muscles to move them. Scientists hope in the future to use the human-like form to "explore human-like cognitive features".
For those concerned with the rise of machines and the decline of humanity, in the demo video, Eccerobot shakes hands with one of the researchers rather then pulling a laser gun on him.
The video below demonstrating the recently developed shoulder design which replicates the human model in great detail.
A News from RussiaToday , 25 August 2009
More on Eccerobot.org
For those concerned with the rise of machines and the decline of humanity, in the demo video, Eccerobot shakes hands with one of the researchers rather then pulling a laser gun on him.
The video below demonstrating the recently developed shoulder design which replicates the human model in great detail.
A News from RussiaToday , 25 August 2009
More on Eccerobot.org
Amazing Micro sculptures from Willard Wigan
Willard Wigan is the creator of the world's smallest sculptures, from Birmingham, England, who makes minute work, where a figure can be as small as 0.005 mm (0.0002in) tall. In July 2007 he was awarded an MBE for services to art. (Wikipedia)Those sculptures can only be seen clearly with a microscope. Believe it or not Willard Wigan able to hold the whole Obama family in the eye of a needle and Muhammad Ali on the head of a match.
Below is the video of his amazing works. He once lost a sculpture of Alice in Wonderland. "You have to control the whole nervous system, you have to work between the heartbeat - the pulse of your finger can destroy the work." - Willard Wigan
