In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday evening, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Amazon Prime Air, a service that delivers packages via autonomous drones. With the service, Bezos said he hopes that the company will be able to deliver packages into customers hands within 30 minutes of the time they place an order….
A year ago, Boston Dynamics uploaded a video of their quadruped robot, Cheetah, hitting speeds of 29 mph on a treadmill. Cheetah couldn’t live up to its name, but certainly faster than a human. Back then, it was plugged in and supported by a boom. Not anymore. Cheetah’s off the treadmill and out on…
Can robots convey compassion? Connect with humans on an emotional level like other living creatures? Well, disguising a robot as a baby seal pup is one step towards blurring those lines. Engineers in Japan have created PARO, a therapeutic robot modeled after a baby Harp seal, that displays emotional responses triggered through its heat and…
A research group from Tokyo’s Institute of Technology have created an amphibious snake robot, that moves by twisting its individual body segments like a snake. It moves on land and glides through water with built-in wheels and paddles to propel its weight. And its flexible joints allow for easy twisting and turning, while keeping dirt…
How do Nat Geo cameramen and photographers capture such stunning imagery of dangerous predators and their protected babies without a scratch from their subjects? They shoot smart. Like Steve Winter for example, whose fascination with robotics and video capture gave him the idea to send one out for a close up encounter with a wild…
Say hello to the impressive IRIS camera control system, combining the precision of modern robotics with the reach and flexibility needed to capture not just one technical shot, but all of them. It’s the ultimate camera control system for the professional filmmaker, put the camera where you want it, when you want it, over and…
Watch as this snake-like robot slithers then coils its way up a tree! The Biorobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University has created a bio-inspired Snakebot which mimics the motion of a snake, pushing the development of robots one step further. The team at CMU has focused on two models of Snakebots – one to…
OEM Cameras have so many uses these days. Due to their small size, they can be mounted virtually anywhere. Here are just 5 ways in which OEM Cameras are currently being used. 1. UAV/Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Aside from being used for damage assessment (ie: during the Haiti disaster), domestic surveillance, and traffic monitoring, UAV’s with…